the dreaming body as resistance

BLUE is a Thai interdisciplinary artist.

How might art decolonize our relationships with memory, history, non-human entities, as well as each other, especially when hegemonic power systems have long perverted our interrelations?

Blue’s practice pursues this question by animating female entities who refuse to forget violence, subverting patriarchal and colonial strategies of erasure through rituals of remembrance and haunting using site-specific performance, installations, and video art.

Blue is a Fine Arts MFA candidate at UW-Madison. Her work has been showcased in multiple parts of the world, from London to Dubai, including at the UN Climate Meeting, COP28.

WORK

Up to the Elephant,

Down to the Dog (2025)

Performance-Installation Hybrid / Site-Specific / Gates of Heaven Synagogue, Madison WI / Recipient of the UW-Madison 2025 Creative Arts Award

Up to the Elephant, Down to the Dog is a performance and installation that explores the intergenerational impact of the Vietnam War through Professor Nam Kim’s family history and their migration under Operation New Life. Staged in a historic Jewish synagogue, the piece layered resonances of displacement across cultures and generations. Over the course of eight hours, I constructed a fragile house of tissue paper and thread within a holy place, an act of endurance and devotion.

Through this live performance, spatial installation, and archival recordings, the work explored what constitutes “home” in the aftermath of war and migration, framing the war’s legacy as a living force that shapes identities today. This project was done in collaboration with Professor Nam Kim, an anthropology professor at UW-Madison for the campus Center for Southeast Asian Studies as a way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. This project was also funded by the UW-Madison 2025 Creative Arts Award.

Moon Monologue (2025)

2 Act Site-Specific Play / Washburn Observatory, Madison, WI

Moon Monolgue: Luna Nullius takes its name from the latin phrase ‘Terra Nullius’ meaning ‘nobody’s land‘. ‘Terra Nullius‘ was a legal concept used to justify European colonization by claiming land was unoccupied and there for available for settlement.

Space exploration as a field is rife with colonial logic. While Luna Nullius is not against space exploration for science discovery - the work seeks to question the ethics of space exploration as well as the earthly politics involved: from questionable animal experiments, moon landing’s relation to the Cold War, to today’s SpaceX mogul Elong Musk and his over-influence in contemporary America’s politics.

The 1 hour two-act performance revisits the moon through an ecofeminist lens telling the story of Moon’s relationship with humanity from her perspective.

Look How Thai I Can Thai,

Look How Ethnic I Can Ethnic (2025)

Look How Thai I Can Thai, Look How Ethnic I Can Ethnic is a 3 hours durational performance conducted in the Gelsy Verna Gallery glass case. The piece explores ideas of legibility and erasure for a Thai immigrant artist, in relation to the commodification of Thainess and what it means to create work as a Thai person in a white institution.

Mourning Sita (2024)

Mourning Sita is a live multimodal 15 - 30 minutes performance that combines poetry, performance, and audience participation. Referencing the myth of Sita and the way she is reappropriated into the Thai #metoo movement protest, the artist creates a space for communal mourning for women who have been erased and violated by patriarchal systems.