un.thai.tled is a collective that brings together artists and creatives from Thailand and those with a Thai diasporic background. The collective curates cinema and cultural events in which stereotypes concerning Thailand and Southeast Asia are broken. un.thai.tled stands for resistance against invisibility but also against labels and external classifications. 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.
Performance as part of the exhibition “Nation, Narration, Narcosis. Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories”
11am – 6 pm
Natthapong Samakkaew: Video installation “Krung Thep Maha Nakhon”
Wisanu Phu-artdun: Video installation “Isan Ghost Rebellion”
2 – 3 pm
Kantatach Kijtikhun & Tanat Teeradakorn: Musik Performance “Weeping Earth: Darkage Fiddler”
4 – 5 pm
Raksa Seelapan: Performance “Cover Up”
Bildcredit: © un.thai.tled, Courtesy of the artists
