the dreaming body as resistance
the dreaming body as resistance
BLUE is a Thai interdisciplinary artist.
She combines performance, poetry, video, and installation to create immersive experiences for contemplation, examination, and resistance against power structures.
Blue is inspired by the monstrous female trope common in the Thai mythos and ghost religion she grew up with. She uses these characters to talk about patriarchal violence, employing a speculative fiction lens where the feminine screams back.
Blue is a Fine Arts MFA candidate at UW-Madison.
Works
Mourning Sita is a live multimodal 15 - 30 minutes performance that combines poetry, performance, and audience participation.
Inspired by the Thai myth of นางไม้, female spirits believed to dwell in trees - this series aims to explore the solidarity between female and eco bodies, both of which are objectified and violated by the patriarchy in similar ways. Each chlorophyll prints were created through photo negatives and sunlight, then reproduced into a photograph where I recontextualized the prints against natural backdrops.
In Thai folk religion where women are given the respected role of mediums to commune with spirits and ancestors. This contrasts with the way women are deemed as dirty of a lower class in Thai Buddhism, incapable of nirvana.
Through these photographs, female bodies are depicted as both holy and monstrous akin to the way the mysteries of femininity are heralded in Thai folk religion.
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