The work of Korakrit Arunanondchai focuses on the transformative potential of storytelling, where he expands his cosmos of interconnected stories through expansive video installations, paintings, objects, and performative works.

His first major solo presentation in Indonesia, Sing, Dance, Cry, Breathe, I As their world collides onto the screen is imagined as a theater of non-humans, embodying anthropomorphic forms through light, sound, architecture, and, finally, image. 

Two symbols that are ever-present in Arunanondchai’s work and remain significant here are the bird and the snake. Both symbols are ubiquitous in human origin myths in several cultures. Arunanondchai is interested in these symbols not for their physical and symbolic manifestation as images but more so as a set of relationships that we impose on social structures and the natural world. 

As media is closely woven into the context and issues faced by the community of its origins, Arunanondchai sees his artistic practice as a form of storytelling, often to connect with and understand our collective need for narratives, while also deconstructing and threatening existing tales that cease to be helpful in dealing with the present. 

Saturday, 1 December 2024
01.00 PM – 02.30 PM
Ruang Gagasan Museum MACAN

This program will be delivered in English and accessible to the public with a valid museum entry ticket.