Welcome to Your Mind, Version II (CMU Art Museum, Chiang Mai)

Nic & Sly Sing a Duet

The next video installation will include a video montage of Nicolas Cage and Sly Stallone singing a duet, for the exhibition 'Unspeaking Engagements' curated by Brian Curtin and Steven Dutton.


'Unspeaking Engagements'

Art Center of Chulalongkorn Unviersity, Bangkok (27th Aug-26th Sep 2009)
Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University, UK (January 2010)

Also with the works of:
Tintin Cooper
Adam James
Michael Lee
Tanya Mahoun
Brigid McLeer
Ho-Ming Kuei
Be Takerng Pattanopas
Kamol Phaosavasdi
Nigel Power and Elias Wyber
Hester Reeve
Jonathan Shaw
Steve Swindells
Carl von Weiler

'Duet' , found footage, digital video, 2009

A Conversation between Bruce Lee and Sly Stallone

Testosterone Paradise (Bruce & Sly), excerpts from the two video projections in conversation.

Tang Gallery, Mois de la Photo, Bangkok 2008
Brunswick Gallery, Divination, London 2008

2008, digital video on loop, approx 8 min

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ROCKY, THE HEPTOLOGY AND/OR SEXOLOGY

Shaking Tunnel

Motors, corrugated metal, wood.

Short video documentation of the installation 'Welcome to Your Mind' created as part of a group exhibition for ArtAids Foundation, Netherlands. The installation consisted of darkened passageways through which the audience had to pass, and a primitive sort of 'earthquake simulator'.

The machine has been exhibited in Bangkok, ChiangMai and in Barcelona in Jun 2009.

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Kitsune Masks

Some drawings for the Kitsune project, coming soon!
Right: Kitsune Mask, Left Kitsune Facial Muscles

Thai 80's Music Videos

Here are some hidden gems from my ever-growing collection of good/bad/fab 80s music vids! Enjoy the design and choreography as much as the music!


In "Manut Karng Kow" (translates as "Human-Bat" or "Batman") singer Tik Shiro is scared his heart's going to tear apart worrying that his girlfriend might find another guy while he's out working late everynight, becoming a nocturnal "batman".


Another Tik Shiro gem, "Mah Joi Gan" (Let's Get Together). People of the world, whether you're from America, Esarn, if you're a caveman or an Egyptian mummy, let's get together and hang out! Unbelievably cool music video!


Ood Siriboon "Wun Ti Ror Koy" (The Day I've Waited For)....slow tearjerker...


Asanee Wasan & Wasan Chotikul "Krungtheppramahanakorn....etc" The whole song consists of singing just one word, the full name of "Bangkok" which goes on for about 3 pages!


"Pe" from Hi-Rock, Thailand's answer to Guns n Roses (He's so Hot). This song is called "Nao Nua" which means "goosebumps"..

"Young Love" club soma night

Our Club Soma night Young Love consisted of a triple video projection designed by Cheque (Duckunit/BORED) and VJ-artist Gerald Van Der Kaap, a kissing and vibration booth by myself, Jim and Putt, and DJs Dookie and co. (part of the ArtAids weeklong exhibitions and events)

Hanging out in the Vibration Booth....


photos: Rune Kippervik

On Second Thoughts, Eddie!

My friend from back in our art school days Eddie Peake is starring in this bad-disco-style art flick called "On Second thoughts, Eddie!". You can see it in full at the Jerwood Space/London on 29th Jul.

Trailer for film "On second thoughts, Eddie!" by Paul Richards, Jason Dungan, Jenifer Evans, Claire Hooper, Eddie Peake, Guy Rusha, Gili Tal, Joseph Walsh.

Eddie's a fabulous artist, and it's pretty refreshing to see art that is humourous and unpredictable at the same time. I also like the "Put Out the Bin" collective, whose philosophy is "Choreography VS. Chaos":

Cat-Nap VS. British Gas Eyes

Rancid Glamour Photography by Mike Topping

Also check out: Eddie's online chef d'oeuvre: "The Discrepancy Between My Intentions and Your Understanding" here.

How to Make An Earthquake Simulator

Section Cut: "Disaster Simulator (Welcome to Your Mind)", 2008

I'm currently working on a project to make an earthquake simulator (Disaster Simulator-Welcome to Your Mind) with Vaccine (carpenter) and Nuk and Nun (my technician-mechanic uncles) to be shown as part of an ArtAids project that'll travel through Thailand/France/Amsterdam (2008/2009)

Basically, you walk up to the gallery, and you're like "Oh Shit! The only entrance is through that dark, cramped passageway in the corner...what do I do now?" Suddenly this hand (probably mine) pushes you inside and you're forced to feel your way around this completely dark, twisting passageway. You keep walking for what seems like ages and ages and every now and then the whole floor shakes really violently. When you finally reach the end (if you do)....there's a door, which you push open, and then...........SURPRISE!!!!

Apparently the queene will be visiting on the opening night (merde!!!!).

Also, all I keep hearing about these days is the news that Bangkok will be hit by earthquakes and floods sometime within the next four months, apparently similar to the recent catastrophes of China and Burma. So I thought this would be a good piece to recreate now, in our day and age where everyone fears everything.

Section cut closeup: under the floorboards, motors, springs, timing device and sensors.

General View (without walls)

Bird's eye view.

Tesla's Earthquake Machine (part 1)

TESLA ROCKS!!!!
Nikola Tesla in front of his Wardenclyffe Laboratory where he tested his "deathray",
and uranus in background.

Nikola Tesla's pretty much known as the inventor that created the alternating current electrical system which is now used worldwide. But some of his lesser known, slightly quack- theoretical inventions also include the electric submarine, and the death ray (dubbed the "PEACE RAY" by Tesla himself) that could be projected from massive power houses 200 miles apart to create "an impenetrable wall for a country in time of war". Anything that came in contact with the WALL would be obliterated. "Planes would fall, armies would be wiped out so that even the smallest country might so insure its security".

Though my favourite so far has to be the earthquake machine, which aptly applies to us in these times of worldwide destruction.

In fact, the "earthquake machine" consists of a simple handheld vibrating assembly, no bigger than an alarmclock, that worked on the principle of matching a frequency so that any object can be shook to pieces. The most obvious example is the wine glass that breaks when an opera singer reaches that certain note.

While walking along Wall St, he found a ten-story high, half-built steelframe building. He fastened the resonator to one of the steel beams and set it in tune until eventually the frequency coincided. The steel structure started to creak and warp to the point that the builders ont he 10th floor freaked out, called for the police and ran down to the ground, thinking there had been an earthquake. Just 10 minutes more would've bought the whole buidling shattering to the ground, and even bring down the Brooklyn Bridge. He even boasted that it could split the earth in half...and no one ever knew if he was joking...or not.

Back at his inventor's studio, he set up a small machine based on the resonator and proceeded to get on with other more urgent inventions, while the surrounding vicinity suffered for the next few weeks from shaking bookshelves, shattering windows, policemen donuts falling off tables, pipes breaking and furniture creeping across the floor.

The earthquake machine ended up being smashed by Tesla himself. No one knows why exactly, but it may have had something to do with its "laxative effect" which had you constantly running to the nearest toilet.

sources:
"Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine" by Gregory Bishop
New York Sun, "Tesla Invents Peace Ray", 10 July 1934
Manipulating and Harnessing the Schumann Resonance by Brian David Anderson