Community Cinema: Experimental Films, Documentaries and Video Art
Sunday 19 July 2015, 6:30-7:30 pm
In Khmer and English translation
Sa Sa Art Projects #26-28 E2, the White Building, Sothearos Blvd.
Community Cinema: Experimental Films, Short Documentaries and Video Art from Cambodia, Thailand and South Africa
Sunday 19 July 2015, 6:30-7:30pm
The White Building
Organised by Arnont Nongyao, Pirayat Piyapongwiwat and Sa Sa Art Projects.
About the artists
Arnont Nongyao (b. 1979, Bangkok, Thailand) works with various media including sound, video, and installation, often in site-specific and public spaces. His practice with sound centers on exploring modes of listening and hearing as a social situation and an exercise of influence, through experimentation with vibrations derived from connected things, such as human beings, objects and society. Arnont is Co-Director of Chiang Mai Collective (CMC), an open network of innovative sound artists and practitioners in Chiang Mai. Arnont holds a BFA from Chiang Mai University.
Selected solo exhibitions include TRANCE (2014) with Piyarat Piyapongwiwat, Gallery VER, Bangkok; and Imaginarium (2011), Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai. Selected recent group exhibitions include 16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015, Wroclaw, Poland; Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival 2015, Hong Kong; The Spirit Of The Land (2014), Rumpueng Community Art Space, Chiang Mai; and Mica International Film Festival 2014, Manaus, Brazil. More about Arnont Nongyao at www.arnontnongyao.com.
Piyarat Piyapongwiwat (b. 1977, Phrae, Thailand) works with various media including video, photography, text, sound, and installation. Her work usually reflects surrounding experiences, including questioning of contemporary issues such as gender, marginalized communities, subcultures, cultural change and globalization, informed by the fields of humanities, social sciences, and political philosophy. Piyarat holds a BA from RMIT University, Australia and a BFA from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier Agglomération (ESBAMA), France.
Selected solo exhibitions include TRANCE (2014) with Arnont Nongyao, Gallery VER, Bangkok; and Queerness (2012), Toot Yung Gallery, Bangkok. Recent group exhibitions include 7th Yangon Photo Festival (2015), French Institute, Yangon; Swimming in Sand, Growing Rice Under an Umbrella (2014), No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne; RADIATION: Art and Queer Ideas from Bangkok and Manila (2012 & 2014), Department of Avant-Garde Clichés Gallery, Manila & Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; and Zeitgeist (2013), SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco. More about Piyarat Piyapongwiwat at www.piyaratpiyapongwiwat.com.
