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Dear Arteri readers,
I was forwarded this link to a new work by Thai artist Wit Pimkanchanapong and Duckunit studio. I was so hypnotised by it that I had to share it with you all. It’s called My-ya-rab which is a type of sensitive plant or Mimosa in Thai and is a large scale kinetic sculpture currently installed at Bangkok Art & Cultural centre. It was commissioned by Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, as part of Bangkok Banana Art & Culture Festival 2009. The work will be on exhibit from 30 April – 30 May 2009 and discussions are underway with the art centre to extend it to July.
Alternatively, it can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/4220701
Also check out Wit’s blog for more of his projects and information. http://bangkokok.typepad.com/wit/
Just a short sweet gift from me to you.
(EM)
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Wit is an amazing artist. His practice kinda reminds me of what Dain said the other day about the artist-monk being a Southeast Asian counterpart to the poet-warrior :D
Increasingly his body of work seem to reflect a 21st century Montien aesthetic. Way cool!
-Simon
That is amazing…here is the USA its called the TickleMe Plant because it really does MOVE when you Tickle It. You can easily grow your own here is USA
http://www.ticklemeplant.com so if you have family here you can share your love of nature and have them grow their own TickleMe Plant and watch the leaves close and branches droop when Tickled.
Kinetics
I like the light and shadow effect but the mechanism of Hyposurface is somewhat similar but a bit more advanced:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbgo72EqfNc
gear heart is pretty cool too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgbFl_VSjDs
youtube has nice list of kinetic sculpture on its playlist
I agree with Daniel; the lights are the most fascinating thing about it.
Have you noticed that the semalu plant not only shuts its leaves, but bends its branches down, when touched? Then it spends the next minute or so slowly returning to a normal position.
That sequence, in its entirety, is riveting to watch …
Love it! It’s best in the dark. I want one for my living room. :D
wit,wit,wit,wit…..no women no thai ! wit,wit,wit
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=&TOPIC_PK=2375
Heres another gorgeous one by Troika, which came to Kl recently for KLdesign week.
that was mesmerizing! but agree with the above, the piece looked totally different in the dark. was that for documentation or is it possible for audience to see it in the dark?
cool shit, psycho wit!!!
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Hey Eva, thank you for you lovely post.
And thank you all of you for comments.
– We will extend to show this work at BACC till the first week of July.
– I love the look of the work at night very much as well. It happen by accident and can only be seen when the art center is close. I have a plan to develop the work using this approach, and will show it at 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, around August-September this year.
good luck,
I miss you all the 712!
Hi Wit!
Thank you for sending the link to me! I really wanted to share it with everyone, and please please keep me posted about the show at 100 Tonson Gallery I will hopefully be back in BKK at the end of the August.
That is great news that the piece has been extended. Can you tell us why you choose this particular subject? And comment on Simon’s statement about if/ how Montien Boonma has influenced your practice?
Link to Montien Boonma: http://www.rama9art.org/montien/
Club 712 misses you too!!
E
Initially, I plan to install this work around the pillar of the monorail (sky train, we call) structure (link to the initial sketch http://www.flickr.com/photos/witpim/3576325390/ ), as a kind of mars-attack alien plant invade the city. It is a very Japanese giant robot comic + urban architecture mindset.
Also I try to achieve on what Zedeck comment about the behavior of the sensitive plant, not only when it shut but when it return back it is a very wonderful moment. It not yet complete in this work yet, since when we blow it up it to a massive scale, all of these sexy tension is gone. people tend to interest on the movement and scale of the work more. it is another issue that i need to keep test and working on the next project.
I can say that Montien’s work have no direct influence on me, it’s more about Apichartpong (the filmmaker). I often ask myself that if my work is ‘Apichartpongness’ enough yet. And I think that some aspects of Montien’s works also very Apichartpong.
hahaha Wit! how are you buddy?
thanks for your comments. Do you think Apichatpong’s works are influenced by Montien too?
Either way, they are my two artist-heroes in Southeast Asia, so I can see where you’re coming from. Now that you mentioned Joe as an influence I can definitely see where that intersection between the everyday and the surreal lies in your work. there’s always an element of fantasy and strangeness yet it’s so rooted in the banal as well, or at least the gesture/motion/action is so minimal and quotidian that it creates an amazing contrast with the spectacle of the surreal.
It’s so strange Apichatpong has become a benchmark for so many artists. I remember working with a Korean artist some years ago on a project in Melbourne and all we did was measure the standard of her production against Joe’s. It was a lot of fun though. There’s nothing like queering the banal!