Reconceptualising the characteristics of Southeast Asian artists’ moving image work in order to view their work in a de-westernised framework.
Animistic Apparatus exhibition curated by Ingawanij at the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, September 19 – 22, 2019
Stories of Animistic Cinema in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, special issue Uncontainable Nature: Southeast Asian Visual Cultures, edited by Lucy Davis, Nora Taylor, and Kevin Chua. Original publication date autumn 2020, delayed by covid-19 to summer 2021. Journal article by Ingawanij drawing on her curation of the field trip, artistic research and performance rehearsal event in Udon Thani, northeast Thailand
Eight co-curated programmes of predominantly Southeast Asian artists’ moving image works screened across arts and academic venues in Asia and Europe
Project website: https://mayadadol.info/
Researcher, curator, writer
Main funder: British Academy Mid-career Fellowship awarded to Ingawanij, 'Contemporary art and animistic cinematic practices in Southeast Asia’. Project reference MD/170041, October 2018 – September 2019 – £121,379.20
Additional funders: Asia-Europe Foundation Mobility First grant, July 2019 – S$5,900 (£3,300); Purin Pictures Film Activities Fund, January 2019, $3,500 (£2,600); Japan Foundation Bangkok Small Grant, March 2019, THB120,000 (£3,000)
Site-based exhibition, ritual film projection and storytelling sessions at 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, September 19–22, 2019
Field learning trip, artistic research and performance rehearsal events at Baan Nong Na Kham temple and Baan Chiang archaeological village, Udon Thani province, northeast Thailand, April 2019
Curated film screening programmes at NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, January–March 2020; Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, September 2019; Nordland kunst-og filmfagskole, Kabelvag, October 2019; Aperture: Asia and Pacific Film Festival, London, June 2019; Alliance Française, Bangkok, April 2019
Julian Ross (research fellow, co-curator); Mary Pansanga (producer); Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), Berwick-upon-Tweed; Noir Row Art Space, Udon Thani; Thanawat Phappayon itinerant film projection troupe, Udon Thani
Exhibiting artists for Animistic Apparatus at BFMAF: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Chris Chong Chan Fui; Lav Diaz; Lucy Davis; Tanatchai Bandasak
Participating artists, curators, anthropologists and writers for the artistic research and rehearsal events in Udon Thani: Annie Jael Kwan; Arnont Nongyao; Christian Tablazon; Danaya Chulphuthiphong; Daniel Hui; Donlawat Sunsuk; Fereshteh Toosi; Hoi Ling Sim; Sam I-shan; Jeanne Penjan Lassus; John Torres; Kridpuj Dhansandors; Pam Virada Banjurtrungkajorn; Pathompon Mont Tesprateep; Porntep Petchsamrit; Puiyee Leong; ‘Red’ Nguyen Hai Yen; Rei Hayama; Riar Rizaldi; lololol collective (Sheryl Cheung, Xia Lin); Shireen Seno; Sompot Chidgasornpongse; Taiki Sakpisit; Tanatchai Bandasak; Nguyen Trinh Thi; Tulapop Saenjaroen; Umi Lestari; Vipas Prachyaporn; Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa; Zai Tang
| Creators | Ingawanij, M.A. |
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| 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 |