Keynote: ‘Keywords for thinking about artists’ moving image practices in Southeast Asia’, ‘Shifting undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia’, workshop and film seminar, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and National Gallery Singapore, October 2018
‘Artists’ moving images in Asia’, International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 2019
‘Animistic Cinema’, MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, March 2019
Keynote: ‘Matriarchs of Medium’, Gender in Southeast Asian art histories and visual cultures symposium organised by Chulalongkorn University and University of Sydney, Communication Design Programme, CU, Bangkok, April 2019
Artists’ talk with Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic, part of the exhibition No History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 5, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, April 2019
Keynote: ‘Animistic Medium: Genealogy of performativity and Southeast Asian contemporary art’, Pathways of performativity in contemporary Southeast Asian Art conference, June 2019, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Also live streamed on HDK Facebook live 2.2K views
‘Experimental curatorial practices through small-scale collaborations and networks’, the 4th International Symposium for Media Art, Open media culture: Collaborations, networks, exchange, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, February 2020
Animistic Apparatus, online talk for Collective Practices Research seminar series, KKH/The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, October 2020
‘A history of cinematic exhibitions in Southeast Asia’, online talk for Curatorial (Case) Studies series, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore, December 2020
Keynote invitation: ‘Animistic Apparatus: A story of making a method to ask some fundamental questions’, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies conference, University of St Andrews (conference originally scheduled for April 2020, cancelled due to covid-19).
Interviews and commentaries on Animistic Apparatusat BFMAF:
Mey, Vera, ‘15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival’, Art Monthly, December 2019 – January 2020
Heredia, Shai, ‘The grandfather spirit: an interview with May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross’, NANG, issue 8 Loud Mess, 2020, pp 96-100.
Nicholson, Ben, ‘Reimagining cinema from nature’s perspective’, Hyperallergic, October 14, 2019
Jack, Marcus, ‘Against dialogue, or, we need to sing to mountains’, MAP, October 2019
Commentaries and observations written by participants on the Animistic Apparatus field learning trip, artistic research and performance rehearsal events in Udon Thani:
Kridpuj Dhansandors, ’Baan Chiang Animism,’ (in Thai and English), Art4d, June 2, 2019
Blogs, collages and diaries by Rizaldi, Toosi, Hayama, and Tang posted on the project’s website: mayadadol.info/index.php/project/animistic-apparatus/2/
| Creators | Ingawanij, M.A. |
|---|---|
| Description | Ingawanij won the British Academy Mid-career Fellowship to study Southeast Asian artists’ moving image within a dewesternised framework attentive to regional genealogies of medial and ritual forms. At BFMAF, Ingawanij and collaborators enacted the exhibition form as provocation: What if contemporary film exhibitions were reimagined as if they were rituals offered and addressed to nonhuman beings? The exhibition presented works by Davis, Weerasethakul, Diaz, Chong, and Tanatchai Bandasak as site-based installations and film projection ritual, staged as an encounter between the artists’ works and the open-air sites and spaces of historical sedimentation of Berwick-upon-Tweed. |
| Portfolio items | Animistic Apparatus @ Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival |
| Comedy of Entanglement: The Karrabing Film Collective | |
| Animistic Apparatus: Screening | |
| Animistic Apparatus screening programmes: Mud, Drones and Spirits; Between the Living and the Dead | |
| Animistic Apparatus screening programme: Landscape of Spirits | |
| Stories of Animistic Cinema | |
| Ghost Cinema for a Damaged World | |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | University of Westminster |
| Web address (URL) | https://mayadadol.info/ |
| Keywords | Southeast Asian contemporary art, artists' moving image, animism |
| CREAM Portfolio | |
| Funder | BA (British Academy) |
| Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) | |
| Purin Pictures | |
| Japan Foundation | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.34737/qy152 |