Analogmemory
intermedia art (including photography, text, interactive art, video installation, conceptual atmosphere), duo exhibition in collaboration with Smitchai Lertanan
Pongnoi Art Space, Suthep, Chiang Mai / February 2009We ran away far from our senses by leaving them to be duties of technologies. Even experiencing something at somewhere, we use tools, specifically, the experience of seeing. Cameras become an inexpensive tool anyone can purchase to draw their visionary experience representations to share in social networks. We walk quickly in Louvre Museum to capture photos of paintings. We rush to a waterfall, looking for a good frame for posing and forget to let other senses to sense off-frame things. Experience is abbreviated, framed and filtered into a flat liquid crystal display, not impressed and imaginable embroidered in our minds. The value of life is passed on through photos and photography, which portrays the value within one’s self efficiently in visual culture; linking self to signs or possessing visual generators that are socially acquiesced for their high values. Consequently, photos have evolved from representations to the virtual reality, and can be easily produced in mass quantity by humans living in communication society in order to increase their own values through cell phones, facebook or even on their bodies. The value that was produced in those photos is not the one that provides better qualities of living. Carefulness is significant in tools equipping, but not in perceiving. The mainstream of happiness depends on visual while other perceptions turn into disinterested alter-happiness.
Atikom and Smitchai, 2 amateurish photographers, wanted to bring you to their temporary home in Pongnoi Art Space, the gallery in private area of an artist named Wonaek Juntaratip for lying down, eating some cake and drinking. After that, we’ll see albums of our hundreds selected photos and watch some movie they made in a broken old TV that need some hits or slaps to adjust its display. Smell scent of grass and sleep on a wooden floor if you feel sleepy.
Take time… to experience things.