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NAMELESS. ECHOES, SPECTRES, HISSES
ONLINE SCREENING
CURATED BY XING
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29 June :: BENJAMIN TAUSIG
1 July :: RUSSELL MORTON
3 JuLY :: SRIWHANA SPONG
5 JULy :: PATHOMPON MONT TESPRATEEP
7 JULY :: SUNG TIEU
9 JULY :: DIVISI62
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Akin to a melody,
the screening unfolds
overtime…
With a focus on South East Asia, Nameless. echoes, spectres, hisses is a screening of moving images, sound and essays investigating the relationship between sound and place; lending an ear to the chimings and utterances of the region that is in continuous flux.
Unearthed languages of Kristang; weaponised voices used against the Viet Cong soldiers; chants of Bangkok in revolt; hisses pulled into language; a funeral song devoted to the afterlife. This dialogue between practices attests to the intricacies of the region’s history. Ghosts of past conflicts, fading communities and endangered dialects haunt any fixed definition of the region.
In this shifting plane, personal accounts, silenced narratives and humming dissent invites the viewer to listen and tune into versions of histories which might otherwise be muffled.
The works are unveiled every two days & remain online until 27 July. XING is a research platform. This screening is co-curated by Jade Barget & Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee.
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BENJAMIN TAUSIG
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Benjamin Tausig
Excerpt from Field recordings, "Protesters Chant On Behalf of the Dead in Ratchaprasong Intersection”, 2010Audio only
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thîi nîi mii khon taay
...'here are dead people',
or ‘there are dead
people here’,
‘people died here’
or even 'I see dead people'
Tausig's recording of chanting in Ratchaprasong, Bangkok, on the 13th of June 2010...
...the epicenter of recent violence against protesters.
Protesters are chanting a phrase thîi nîi mii khon taay which could be translated as
‘people died here’ or ‘there are dead people here’.
This Thai phrase is malleable and lends an ambiguity
in which the presence of the dead can be construed:
there are literally dead bodies there and
their specters are still haunting the intersection.
The chant also acted as a deliberate haunting
of the space by the announcement of the past.
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Protesters Chant on Behalf of the Dead in Ratchaprasong Intersection
by Benjamin Tausig
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RUSSELL MORTON
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When Ghosts Walked Among Men
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Russell Morton
Saudade, 2020
HD video with audio
21mins 04secs
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SRIWHANA SPONG
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having-seen-snake
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Sriwhana Spong
having-seen-snake, 2016
16mm transferred to HD video
13 mins 45secs
Edition of 3
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And a loud silence, like the brightness, as if hearing every sound all at once. In a snap. I’m suddenly spectral and wide-open. “SNAKE.”
This work uses, as its starting point, an encounter between the artist and a garter snake. A surreal imprint of place and sensory experience is juxtaposed with an interview with a scientist centred around a new species of snake recently discovered in the Amazon.
The scientist describes the process of designating a name and what it means to transfer something from the unspoken into the realm of the spoken. The film ends with the song of the Rothschild’s mynah recorded at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. The bird, endemic to Bali, is currently on the brink of extinction due to poaching.
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PATHOMPON MONT TESPRATEEP
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"Song X is an attempt to compose an extended version of [a] posthumous song, as a form of a visual poem, portraying life after death.
It is a means to deliver out a message to my deceased band member and friend, and a memorial ritual for the dead."
- Pathompon Mont Tesprateep
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How else to resist?
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Pathompon Mont Tesprateep
Song X , 2017
16mm & Super 8 (B&W, no dialogue)
20 mins 19 secs
Edition of 5
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SUNG TIEU
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When a sound is indefinitely reverberated, who thinks of doubting his ears?
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Sung Tieu
Sound TV, 2020
HD video with audio
5m 20 secs
Edition of 5
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DIVISI62
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DIVISI62
Kabut Zaman , 2020
HD video with audio
5 min 32 secs
Edition of 5 plus 2APs
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LEARN MORE ABOUT XING
XING is a research platform centered on the poetics and politics of Southeast and East Asian art practices. Assuming form of a shapeshifter, it morphs between localities and temporalities; with(in)flux. A domain of not-yet possibilities, the platform attempts to dismantle matrices concerned with the region from non-dominant perspectives.
The co-curators for this screening are Jade Barget & Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee
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