Something Like a Thing, Sometime Like Every Time
Anupong Charoenmitr
Anupong Charoenmitr, born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1981. He received his Master's Degree from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. He is interested in researching and observing sets of knowledge and truth involved in primary living, presenting conceptual, sharp visual images that reflect impressive perspectives through photography and videography, in the manner of romanticist methodology and agony that occurs in ordinary lives. Anupong’s works have been exhibited in various international festivals and received global recognition; his digital/video category were nominated in the 2016 Prudential Eye Awards at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore and in Screengrab7 Media Art Award at Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Australia in 2015, and his video was awarded in the International Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy in 2013-2014. In "Something like a Thing, Sometime like Every time" in Bangkok Layers exhibition, Anupong has developed his video art presenting a multi-channel video, illustrating issues about the sight of the geopolitical deceptive power, which has created geomorphology of places and spaces, or structures of power’s territory and enemy through Thai traditional dramatic performance art. The work puts an emphasis on the actors and the set designs, considering them as bodies and fictional areas and presents complexity of co-existence under a space created anew. In this work, Anupong brings up Susan Stewart’s theory (b. 1952) which refers to an idea describing that social bodies and reflections are those resulted from social and cultural contexts, bodies and implementation of power, and knowledge which is the base for discursive implementation of power. The interpretation of bodies in a surrealist approach called "grotesque bodies" should be reinterpreted and reconsidered in an inside-out manner or in a manner of symbolic inversion in order to unbuild original traditions and rearrange the power in an inverse manner. These grotesque bodies should be considered as a syntax or relational structures of grammar in art to re-analyse the meanings of complex places and spaces more deeply.
Anupong Charoenmitr
Something Like a Thing, Sometime Like Every Time, 2018
Multi-channel full HD video, color, sound/silent
A Stateroom, 5 min, loop
B Joker, 10 min 20 sec, loop
C People, 10 min 20 sec, loop
D Mangpo, 3 min 55 sec, loop
E Mangji, 3 min 55 sec, loop
F Minister, 1 min 55 sec, loop
Anupong Charoenmitr
Anupong Charoenmitr, born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1981. He received his Master's Degree from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. He is interested in researching and observing sets of knowledge and truth involved in primary living, presenting conceptual, sharp visual images that reflect impressive perspectives through photography and videography, in the manner of romanticist methodology and agony that occurs in ordinary lives. Anupong’s works have been exhibited in various international festivals and received global recognition; his digital/video category were nominated in the 2016 Prudential Eye Awards at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore and in Screengrab7 Media Art Award at Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Australia in 2015, and his video was awarded in the International Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy in 2013-2014. In "Something like a Thing, Sometime like Every time" in Bangkok Layers exhibition, Anupong has developed his video art presenting a multi-channel video, illustrating issues about the sight of the geopolitical deceptive power, which has created geomorphology of places and spaces, or structures of power’s territory and enemy through Thai traditional dramatic performance art. The work puts an emphasis on the actors and the set designs, considering them as bodies and fictional areas and presents complexity of co-existence under a space created anew. In this work, Anupong brings up Susan Stewart’s theory (b. 1952) which refers to an idea describing that social bodies and reflections are those resulted from social and cultural contexts, bodies and implementation of power, and knowledge which is the base for discursive implementation of power. The interpretation of bodies in a surrealist approach called "grotesque bodies" should be reinterpreted and reconsidered in an inside-out manner or in a manner of symbolic inversion in order to unbuild original traditions and rearrange the power in an inverse manner. These grotesque bodies should be considered as a syntax or relational structures of grammar in art to re-analyse the meanings of complex places and spaces more deeply.
Anupong Charoenmitr
Something Like a Thing, Sometime Like Every Time, 2018
Multi-channel full HD video, color, sound/silent
A Stateroom, 5 min, loop
B Joker, 10 min 20 sec, loop
C People, 10 min 20 sec, loop
D Mangpo, 3 min 55 sec, loop
E Mangji, 3 min 55 sec, loop
F Minister, 1 min 55 sec, loop
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