Arts Network Exhibitions

A RIPE VOLCANO

A RIPE VOLCANO / PHUKHAOFAI PHIROT
Visual and sound installation
Artists: 
Taiki Sakpisit (director) Thailand
Yasuhiro Morinaga (sound designer) Japan

With the supports from The Japan Foundation Bangkok and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

A Ripe Volcano is an allegorical revelation where Bangkok becomes a site of mental eruption and the emotionally devastated land during the heights of terrors, primal fears, trauma, and the darkness of time.

A Ripe Volcano revisits The Rattanakosin Hotel, the site where the military troops captured and tortured the civilians, students and protestors who were hiding inside the hotel during the Black May of 1992; and Rajadanern Stadium, a Roman amphitheatre styled Muay Thai boxing arena, which was built in 1941-45 during the Second World War and since then has become the theatrical labyrinth of physical and mental explosions.

The work builds around the recollections of human experiences that took place within these spaces and shifts through the mental space distilled from the possessed memory of wounded time. Within the platform of the multi-channel video / sound installation, the visual and sound artists will create the dreamlike variations sprawling through the darken room where the haunting images and ambient sound floats through the space and creating an exquisitely hypnotizing experience.