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.
WORK
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 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 is a live multimodal 15 - 30 minutes performance that combines poetry, performance, and audience participation.
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