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The first exhibition in Ireland by Korakrit Arunanondchai, a video and multimedia artist originally from Bangkok who now splits his time between New York and Bangkok.
This new exhibition serves as a reconfiguration of Korakrit Arunanondchai’s continuous conversations and collaborations with two artists, Alex Gvojic and Tosh Basco.
Opening with the myth of "Ghost Cinema", a tradition in North East Thailand that grew out of remnants from the occupation of the US military during the Cold War, Korakrit Arunanondchai weaves together a story about possession and the dependency between the caretaker and the care receiver. The filmic installation is charged with the idea of community and questions what holds it together – among humans and non-humans.
The video was mostly shot in Chiang Rai and Udon Thani. In the town of Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, a youth soccer team got trapped in a cave, and their plight became a moment of reframing Thailand and presenting it to the world, as well as back to itself, creating new stories with roles for the helpless, the benevolent, the caregiver and the care-receiver. Spirit mediums, monks, and ghosts of Thailand were there, shoulder-to-shoulder with scientists, the American military, and the international tech-capitalist. In Udon Thani, with the mythical story of the ghosts hiring humans to run an outdoor film screening, the audiences in communion with the ghost, enact a system of rituals through the medium of light projected onto a screen.
Viewer Discretion is Advised
This video may trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy and contains scenes showing nudity.
About the artist
Korakrit Arunanondchai (born in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1986) lives and works in New York and Bangkok. Raised in Thailand, he moved to study in the USA at the Rhode Island School of Design (2009) and Columbia University (2012).
His most recent solo exhibitions have been at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2023, Migros Museum for Contemporary Art in Zürich (2022), Kunsthall Trondheim (2021), Serralves Museum in Porto (2020), the Secession in Vienna (2019), and Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (2018).
Arunanondchai’s work has also been presented as part of numerous group exhibitions, and at biennales and festivals, including Mountain/Time at Aspen Art Museum (2022), the Gwangju Biennale (2021), the Yokohama Triennale (2020), and the Venice and Whitney Biennales (2019).
