Tulapop Saenjaroen, 'Squish!' (still image), 2021. Courtesy of STORAGE, Bangkok.
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Exhibition Details
physicsroom.org.nzPresented by The Physics Room, CIRCUIT and Asia New Zealand Foundation, Space-Body Entanglement is a programme of recent Thai artists video. Introduced on the night by visiting Bangkok curator Mary Pansanga, and featuring an intervention in the gallery by artist Tantachai Bandasak.
The film screening will feature a selection of work by six Thai artists; Jeanne Penjan Lassus, Pam Virada, Saroot Supasuthivech, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Korakrit Arunanondchai & Alex Gvojic (with boychild), Pathompon Mont Tesprateep.
Space-Body Entanglement explores the interplay between the body and the spatial environment. Throughout the programme the physical and transcendental aspects of the depicted body interact within various landscapes, offering an exploration of spatiality, including that of the cinema screen itself. Encompassing an array of diverse forms and interpretations these works explore deafness, supernatural visitations, Cold War histories, images of depression and Thai animation history.
Space-Body Entanglement is presented by CIRCUIT, The Physics Room, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, The Pyramid Club and soft shell in association with the exhibition Homing Instinct. The visit of Mary Pansanga and Tanatchai Bandasak is supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono.
Mary Pansanga
Pansanga is an independent curator working across cinema and contemporary art contexts, institutions and spaces. She co-founded STORAGE, a Bangkok project space.
Price
- Free - All Welcome
Date
- Wed 28 Aug
Time
- 5:30 pm
Address
- 301 Montreal Street
- The Arts Centre Registry Additions Building
- (access from The Arts Centre Market Square)
- Christchurch
Presented by The Physics Room, CIRCUIT and Asia New Zealand Foundation, Space-Body Entanglement is a programme of recent Thai artists video. Introduced on the night by visiting Bangkok curator Mary Pansanga, and featuring an intervention in the gallery by artist Tantachai Bandasak.
The film screening will feature a selection of work by six Thai artists; Jeanne Penjan Lassus, Pam Virada, Saroot Supasuthivech, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Korakrit Arunanondchai & Alex Gvojic (with boychild), Pathompon Mont Tesprateep.
Space-Body Entanglement explores the interplay between the body and the spatial environment. Throughout the programme the physical and transcendental aspects of the depicted body interact within various landscapes, offering an exploration of spatiality, including that of the cinema screen itself. Encompassing an array of diverse forms and interpretations these works explore deafness, supernatural visitations, Cold War histories, images of depression and Thai animation history.
Space-Body Entanglement is presented by CIRCUIT, The Physics Room, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, The Pyramid Club and soft shell in association with the exhibition Homing Instinct. The visit of Mary Pansanga and Tanatchai Bandasak is supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono.
Mary Pansanga
Pansanga is an independent curator working across cinema and contemporary art contexts, institutions and spaces. She co-founded STORAGE, a Bangkok project space.
