Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025-26 details, events, and translations
Performances
Forgetting Thailand (2022)
Curated by Sarnt Utamachote, the one-day intervention Forgetting Thailand takes inspiration from feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh Min Ha’s 2015 film essay Forgetting Vietnam. The performative interventions, rooted in the ongoing research and practice of un.thai.tled members, attempt to decentralize or even forget narratives of the Nation and deconstruct the myth of “homeland” as omnipresent yet violent histories embodied by diaspora/queer positionalities and people in exile. It is a part of larger exhibition Nation, Narration, Narcosis at Hamburger Bahnhof: Contemporary art national gallery (2022) curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers with Goethe-Institut fellowship by Rosalia Namsai Engchuan. The project catalogue archives the collective and performance as well.
Link to catalogue of Nation Narration Narcosis (Kerber Publishing Berlin 2023)Link to Fluctoplasma (where Hamburg iteration took place) Link to I-Heart-BerlinLink to E Flux
Participating artists: Natthapong Samakkaew, Wisanu Phu-artdun, Raksa Seelapan (with costume by Prapatsorn Sukkaset), Kantatach Kijtikhun, Tanat Teeradakorn, Chalida Asawakanjanakit (cancelled due to health)
WANDERING SALON: Series of expanded performances (2023)
Link to article on Missy Magazine (German)
unthaitled x KAUM Film+++festival 2023 Wandering Salon program ranges from film screenings, performances, workshops, talks and other activities. It departs from a conceptual space reminiscent of the salon, the room in a house where guests - friends and strangers alike - are welcomed and entertained. These places exist in households all over Southeast Asia (ห้องโถงเคลื่อนที่, Salon dạo, Salon Keliling), becoming temporary communal spaces of encounters that fosters conversations and new forms of togetherness and solidarity.
Participating curators: Sarnt Utamachote, Rosalia Namsai Engchuan, Phuong Phan, Hai Nam Nguyen, Gugi Gumilang, Lisabona Rahman
Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds under Soydivision collective.
Participating artists: Marque Pham, Minh Duc Pham, Kumar Muniandy, ALPAS Pilipinas collective, Kantatach Kijtikhun & Raksa Seelapan, Samboleap Tol, Ariel Orah & Soydivision collective, Chooc Ly Tan, shasti and more
Impressions from the performances by Kumar Muniandy (left) , Marque Pham (right) , Samboleap Tol (bottom left) , Minh Duc Pham (bottom right) at Uferstudios Berlin 2023, Photo by Chonchanok Sattayatham