Dérives with Korakrit Arunanondchai
Thursday 25 Mar 2021 from 6pm to 6:51pm
How to participate in writing another history of art, one that is iconoclastic, bold, and inclusive? Dérives, a new program launched at Lafayette Anticipations, delves into artists' imaginaries.
A series of two encounters per season, curated by Madeleine Planeix-Crocker.
For this very first Dérives talk, Thai artist, filmmaker and storyteller Korakrit Arunanondchai pools textual and sensorial sources as portals to his newest film Songs for Dying. The film continues a line of exploration previously explored by the artist through installation and painting, in which different registers of storytelling are exposed : from the sacred intimate, to global politics, passing through animistic belief systems, local myths, and new technologies.
Through this discussion conceived as a journey, we dive deep into the writings of historians, religious studies scholars, and biologists echoed by Arunanondchai's personal archives of felt memory, to unpack notions of entangled communions, public and private rituals, as well as performances of love and protest featured in Songs for Dying*.
* Songs for Dying is a coproduction of the Kunsthall Trondheim, 13th Gwangju Biennale and the Han Nefkens Foundation.
His work merges fiction and poetry and offers synesthetic experiences engaged with a multitude of subjects based primarily on the lives of family, friends and colleagues as well as local myths.
His major solo institutional exhibitions include MoMA PS1, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kiasma, Helsinki; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing and S.M.A.K, Ghent, among others. He also took part in the group exhibition Au-delà at Lafayette Anticipations (2023).
His work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennale and the Dhaka Art Summit.
Madeleine received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University before pursuing a Masters in « Media, Arts and Creation » at HEC Paris and a Master 2 in gender and performance studies at the EHESS. There, she led an arts-based research project with the nonprofit Women Safe, where she continues to facilitate a creative writing and theatre workshop. Madeleine is currently completing her PhD at the EHESS ; her dissertation research examines contemporary methods for devising performance in France.
Her most recent writing can be found in CURA., OnCurating, SwitchOn Paper, and EarthKeepingEarthShaking. She has curated two group shows : Spine at GIANNI MANHATTAN as part of Curated by (Vienna, 2024), as well as Scabs at the Mécènes du Sud (Montpellier, 2023). Madeleine pursues her training in contemporary dance.
Bibliographie
- Harney, Stefano & Fred Moten. Les sous-communs - Planificiation fugitive et et étude noire. Brooks, 2021
- Mircea Eliade, Le sacré et le profane, Gallimard, 1988.
- Peter Wohlleben, La vie secrète des arbres, Les Arènes Ed., 2017
- Seong-nae Kim, “The Work of Memory : Ritual Laments of the Dead and Korea’s Cheju Massacre” (2013) [EN]
- Merlin Sheldrake, Le Monde Caché, First, 2021
- Seong-nae Kim, “Dances of Toch’aebi and Songs of Exorcism in Cheju Shamanism” (1992) [EN]
- Lepecki, André. "Choreopolice and Choreopolitics: or, the task of the dancer." TDR: The Drama Review, Vol. 57, No. 4, 2013, pp.13-27.
- Maree brown, adrienne. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, AK Press, 2017.