Vibrating Phnom Penh: An Experimental Lecture by Arnont Nongyao

Wednesday 22 July 2015, 6:00-7:30pm
In Khmer and English translation
Sa Sa Art Projects #26-28 E2, the White Building, Sothearos Blvd.

How do we understand ourselves through vibration and “noise” around us? How does vibration help us understand specificity of place? What role do vibration and “noise” play in connecting among humans, and other beings?

Vibration exists everywhere including in micro life, depending on how we hear it in different spatial conditions. Sa Sa Art Projects artist-in-residence Arnont Nongyao will conduct an experimental lecture about soundscape ("noise") related life in Phnom Penh. Arnont will discuss and showcase different kinds of vibration and “noise” around Phnom Penh city, which is formed by their site specificity and shape of things.

This is a participatory lecture where audience will be encouraged to share and discuss about sound and “noise” in Phnom Penh. No background or previous knowledge about sound or “noise” is required.

About Arnont Nongyao
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; DRIFT Experimental Sound Project (2014), Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok; and Mica International Film Festival 2014, Manaus, Brazil. More about Arnont Nongyao at www.arnontnongyao.com.