Chulayarnnon Siriphol’s exhibition I a Pixel, We the People (ข้าพเจ้าคือพิกเซล, พวกเราคือประชาชน) opens at Bangkok CityCity Gallery on 26th April. The ambitious project is a series of twenty-four videos, each one a montage of excerpts sourced from Chulayarnnon’s personal archive (including newly digitised material from VHS and MiniDV tapes) and reappropriated footage from the Thai Film Archive.
An extended trailer for the project, released on the Vimeo website last week, includes photographs from a meeting between Chulayarnnon and the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, which banned his short film Birth of Golden Snail (กำเนิดหอยทากทอง) from the Thailand Biennale in 2018, with captions describing the OCAC’s criticisms of the film. (Chulayarnnon discussed Birth of Golden Snail, and his other work, in an interview for Thai Cinema Uncensored.)
Also, news footage of student protests from 2020 is intercut with shots of the authoritarian leader from Planetarium, Chulayarnnon’s segment of the portmanteau film Ten Years Thailand. A superimposed snail slithers across the screen, its trail of slime echoing the water cannon used by riot police in Siam Square. Another snail has a broken shell, perhaps symbolising the wounded protesters.
The exhibition runs until 21st June. On the first day, the gallery will be open for twenty-four hours, and will show all twenty-four videos as a durational installation. Chulayarnnon’s previous exhibition at Bangkok CityCity, Give Us a Little More Time (ขอเวลาอีกไม่นาน), took place in 2020.
An extended trailer for the project, released on the Vimeo website last week, includes photographs from a meeting between Chulayarnnon and the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, which banned his short film Birth of Golden Snail (กำเนิดหอยทากทอง) from the Thailand Biennale in 2018, with captions describing the OCAC’s criticisms of the film. (Chulayarnnon discussed Birth of Golden Snail, and his other work, in an interview for Thai Cinema Uncensored.)
Also, news footage of student protests from 2020 is intercut with shots of the authoritarian leader from Planetarium, Chulayarnnon’s segment of the portmanteau film Ten Years Thailand. A superimposed snail slithers across the screen, its trail of slime echoing the water cannon used by riot police in Siam Square. Another snail has a broken shell, perhaps symbolising the wounded protesters.
The exhibition runs until 21st June. On the first day, the gallery will be open for twenty-four hours, and will show all twenty-four videos as a durational installation. Chulayarnnon’s previous exhibition at Bangkok CityCity, Give Us a Little More Time (ขอเวลาอีกไม่นาน), took place in 2020.
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