Fluidity in the City - Bangkok
Information of works
Title: Fluidity in The City
Medium: Performance, installation
Dancer: Nes Thanapon Dathumma
Year: 2022
Size: Variable
Material: Led light, ropes, wires
Image credit: Tanker, Yungka
作品信息
标题：在城市中流动
媒介：表演，装置
时间：2022
尺寸：可变
材料：灯缆，绳索，电线
图片：Tanker, Yungka
Works statement:
This is a project around "Cities on the move". Based on my investigation and understanding of Thailand and the city of Bangkok, I invited a Thai transgender artist to perform on a stage background built with LED light cables, ropes and wires. The entire stage background and performance present a state of fluidity, a form of contradictions about gender, identity, culture and tradition, from conflict and mixed entanglement to fusion. The purpose of using performance as a medium is to present the mixed and fluid state of the sexes through the identity, body and voice language carried by the ladyboy itself. I intermittently mix Western modern dance with traditional Thai dance in the choice of dance forms and costumes. The costumes are changed throughout the performance, from disguising with modern male costumes at the beginning to boldly presenting one's own body, which combines elements of Thai ethnic and Buddhist costumes. This is a process about the individual from doubt, struggle to self-identity, and also the process of mixing and inclusion in the modern development of Bangkok and even Thailand.
作品介绍：
这是一个围绕“Cities on the move”展开的项目。基于我对泰国以及曼谷这座城市的考察与理解，我请了一位泰国的变性人艺术家在用LED灯缆，绳索，电线搭建的舞台背景进行表演。整个背景与表演总体呈现的是一种流动性 fluidity的状态，这个状态关于性别、身份、文化与传统的矛盾，从冲突，混合纠缠再到融合的过程。将表演作为媒介的目的是通过ladyboy 本身携带的身份、身体和声音语言呈现出的两性混合与流动的状态。在舞蹈形式和服装的选择上，我将西方现代舞与泰国传统舞间断的混合在一起，服装在整个表演中是变化的，从一开始用现代男性的服装掩饰，到大胆的呈现自己的身体，融合泰国民族与佛教服饰的元素。这是一个关于个体从怀疑，挣扎到自我身份认同的过程，也是整个曼谷甚至泰国在现代化发展中混合与包容的过程。