This video introduction presents Korakrit Arunanondchai’s exhibition Songs for dying at Kunsthall Trondheim (11 February–18 April 2021), with information for Norwegian sign language users and English subtitles.
The video introduction offers deeper insight into Arunanondchai’s exploration of the ghost as a metaphor for suppressed and overlooked histories, amongst other things. The artist looks at the official handling of traumatic and violent events and the legacy of the victims and political figures who appear just as inaccessible and elevated above the living as a ghost. In this way, Arunanondchai examines the ghost as a social, lived reality.
Arunanondchai has produced a new video work, which has its world premiere in the exhibition. The video, sharing its title with the exhibition, was commissioned by the 13th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Han Nefkens Foundation in Spain and Kunsthall Trondheim. As well as the ghost, the idea of the spirit medium is central in the exhibition and in the new video. This stems from Arunanondchai’s interest in the threshold between worlds, both as an idea and as something that exists in different objects and experiences.
Kunsthall Trondheim