'You Only Live Twice', Bangkok (2007)
Exhibition at PSG Gallery, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Feb 2007
'You Only Live Twice' combines installation of video, drawing, sound and 3-d works in a schizophrenic labyrinth of narrow wooden tunnels and dimly lit passageways. Viewers bend or crawl through a series of makeshift funhouse structures (made of old wood and corrugated iron) in order to interact with the works, which include drawings pinned on notice boards, a mini-pirate radio station playing only synthesizer music, a “machine” to make contact with Uranus, and even a live chicken. Re-edits of Hollywood action film “Rambo” subverts discourses on masculinity and violence, reenvisioning these texts as slapstick 1900’s black and white films. "Terminator (Judgement Day)" starts off in a similarly lowkey, in the black and white style, but ends in an unexpectedly flamboyant synthesiser finale of MTV style re-edits of the film. The music of both films are well known but slightly off key, as they are taken from unexpected home pianists on YouTube. Viewers sit watching the two screens on haystacks scattered throughout the gallery space.
Echoing the logic of the blind alleys, twists, and turns of the Winchester House in California, the pieces inhabiting the space resist any final, totalizing formation, instead incessantly hammering out questions of balance and conflict.
Review in A.ART magazine, Art4D magazine by David Teh: Page 1, Page 2
'You Only Live Twice' combines installation of video, drawing, sound and 3-d works in a schizophrenic labyrinth of narrow wooden tunnels and dimly lit passageways. Viewers bend or crawl through a series of makeshift funhouse structures (made of old wood and corrugated iron) in order to interact with the works, which include drawings pinned on notice boards, a mini-pirate radio station playing only synthesizer music, a “machine” to make contact with Uranus, and even a live chicken. Re-edits of Hollywood action film “Rambo” subverts discourses on masculinity and violence, reenvisioning these texts as slapstick 1900’s black and white films. "Terminator (Judgement Day)" starts off in a similarly lowkey, in the black and white style, but ends in an unexpectedly flamboyant synthesiser finale of MTV style re-edits of the film. The music of both films are well known but slightly off key, as they are taken from unexpected home pianists on YouTube. Viewers sit watching the two screens on haystacks scattered throughout the gallery space.
Echoing the logic of the blind alleys, twists, and turns of the Winchester House in California, the pieces inhabiting the space resist any final, totalizing formation, instead incessantly hammering out questions of balance and conflict.
Review in A.ART magazine, Art4D magazine by David Teh: Page 1, Page 2