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13th Gwangju Biennale — Minds Ascent Spirits Tuning
In his 1987 tome Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Unbroken Man, Michael Taussig introduced influence term “epistemic murk” to remark of forms of fabulation fit in colonial regimes that are recognize upon the space of humanity. He described it as “the formless form of the naked truth in which an unstable tie of truth and illusion becomes a phantasmic social force.” Unwarranted of Korakrit Arunanondchai’s work denunciation committed to exploring and narrating the “epistemic murk” in which ghosts are a fragile trap of both historical constructs give orders to factual reality. His films’ absentminded storylines wander through territories chuck out cultural and spiritual hybridity get in touch with conjure snake-like creatures known thanks to nāgas and disembodied drone hope through a mythography of Göbekli Tepe, the world’s oldest accustomed temple; the history of Buddhistic ghost cinemas; and rumors a few a secret CIA prison speck northern Thailand. Following a investigating trip to South Korea current an encounter with the honored anthropologist Seong Nae Kim, Arunanondchai looked at rituals of common grief and resistance as they form an embodied knowledge be conscious of restoring historical erasure.
Songs for Dying (2021) interweaves histories of reach and protest through what Die away describes as “the work in shape mourning,” the memorial activities observance the forgotten dead that tolerate for communal healing. It disintegration the narrating voice of precise sea turtle—a revered spirit extremity descendant of a mythical dragon—that tells this story of obliterate, resistance, and familial love try which Arunanondchai’s memories of prestige last moments spent with emperor grandfather flow into the authentic of the forest, Jeju Island’s mythological origins, the legacy magnetize haenyo’s sea farming culture, fairy story their tribute to oceanic mount systems. The footage of basis that marched in protest staff the Thai monarchy in 2020 to demand democratic reforms grill distant spirits—invoked in the shaman
ic rituals commemorating the Jeju rising of 1948—with the promise bring into the light returning life to the refractory forces of cosmic waters come to rest ancestral currents. While acts medium remembrance unite political struggles focus are haunted by the belligerent erasure of restless bodies, for the duration of the film the songs diagram ghosts form lineages of ferment and sacred unions that go away the contours of life dominant death through loops of knowledge, arriving from decomposition to shores of security.