Samrit is a place in which art isn’t needed. In the meanwhile, art is within the life there. The art of being attached to lands; The art of sensing weather; the art of approaching time; the art of communicating with people.
The local people’s way of understanding reality is beyond verbal language, which is a beautiful piece of live art itself.
Because of the connection from Samrit residency, I’ve got insights about Isaan culture by participating to family events. I was impressed by their food, Isaan pop and Lamvong dance. Moreover I was fully immersed in villagers’welcome curiosity and heart-warming care. As a performance artist, I found human relationship here is so fruitful that everyone could be a great performer on the stage which is called life. In their performance, there is an essential theme named joy. They drink when they enjoy. They dance when they enjoy. They sing when they enjoy. The stage is created when they enjoy.
The local people’s way of understanding reality is beyond verbal language, which is a beautiful piece of live art itself.
Because of the connection from Samrit residency, I’ve got insights about Isaan culture by participating to family events. I was impressed by their food, Isaan pop and Lamvong dance. Moreover I was fully immersed in villagers’welcome curiosity and heart-warming care. As a performance artist, I found human relationship here is so fruitful that everyone could be a great performer on the stage which is called life. In their performance, there is an essential theme named joy. They drink when they enjoy. They dance when they enjoy. They sing when they enjoy. The stage is created when they enjoy.
It is a very intriguing context, although sometime it is extreme for artists to produce works. Making process-based project requires lots of attention to communicate, especially when residency program aims to cultural exchange. If organization and coordination could have been done in more careful and delicate way, it would have helped reducing miscommunication between the local and artist. I am an artist who works with open manner, but requires a clear base in order to produce things. I do hope the residency could conduct their structure in a more sufficient way, for example, a cleaner studio, more efficient maintenance for facilities, more punctual schedule. Then in this alive village, Samrit residency and artists can surely make a great platform, on which diverse creativity can be openly exchanged.
This precious experience had me constantly reflect on how my art practice could benefit not merely me, but also the community. The initial plan of my project was changed after those precious experiences. Luckily there was no pressure to formulate ideas. Instead ideas were blended in cultural exchange and carried out in even more organic ways. Thanks for residency coordinator and colleague Giorgio’s participation, we started up a film project which contains significant potentiality for the future plan. In two weeks, we carried the camera and tripod around the village to film Samrit family life. I feel happy that it eventually provided another kind of stage through camera lens. On this stage, Isaan culture could be shown from personal perspectives.
All the things happened in these two months will be carried on. A sprouting seed was planted at the end of my residency.
See you in the future, with full faith.
All the things happened in these two months will be carried on. A sprouting seed was planted at the end of my residency.
See you in the future, with full faith.
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