Tang Fu Kuen Direction

“Samut,” a Siamese term for “document,” is a shifting space that hosts multiple and alternative ways of scripting and staging desires for co-existence. Reflecting on Thailand’s complex states of transition.

“Samut Thai” is a 2-day durational atelier which gathers statements from various artistic authors on the histories of belonging in the Kingdom.

The recent demise of the beloved monarch King Bhumibol, as well as the present authority of the military government, has set the Land of Smiles into a flux of sentiments and the condition of unrest. In “Samut Thai,” this instability is embodied in the form of ‘works-in-progress’: each provisionally searching for its root in ‘truth,’ each charged to turn the next page of hope for a bloodless tomorrow.