CURATORIALS

Cinema-related


- Annual

    Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin 2022 / 23
    Short Film Festival Hamburg 2022 / 23 

    Celestial Festival Berlin 2022 / 23


- Project based


    unthaitled x KAUM Film+++festival 2023
    Wandering Salon


Film screenings, discussions, workshops, expanded cinema perfomances, citywalks /
May 3-13, July 2-9, October 3-13 2023

Text by MISSY MAGAZINE (DE) ein revolutionärer mobiler Salon: unthaitled x KAUM Wandering Salon 2023






    Cinema of commoning


International conferences, discussions and film screenings on cinema spaces as site of commonness, social and political movement, and alternative model for better future / Feb - 24-26 June 2022

(bi’bak website) (Cinema of commoning website)





    Common Cold: un.thai.tled Film Festival 2021


Film screenings and discussions on Thai and Southeast Asian common histories during Cold War / November-December 2021

(bi’bak website)

at Sinema Transtopia, 2021 / funded by Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücke,
Projektfonds Urbane Praxisand Goethe Institut Thailand




    Imagining Queer Bandung


Film scrreenings, Filmmaking and Podcasting Workshop for queer BIPoCs - for the anticolonial queer alliance from the Global South / June-August 2021)

(bi’bak website) / (queer asia website) / (facebook)

at Sinema Transtopia, 2021 in collaboration between bi’bak and Queer Asia / funded by Soziokultur Fonds and Europa Solidarity Corps

Touring screenings at :
- Queer Film Festival Munich, October 2021
- Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, October 2021 (previously “Lesbische- Schwule Filmtage Hamburg”)
- Sinema Retakes & Revisions Series at Sinema Transtopia, December 2021
- BIPOC Sunrise Dortmund Special Screening at Endstation Kino Bochum, December 2021


    un.thai.tled Film Festival 2020


Film screenings and discussions on Thai cinema, geopolitics and identities / & Film-workshop for BPoCs with Pimpaka Towira and un.thai.tled Collective / September-October 2020

(bi’bak website)
at Sinema Transtopia (project by bi’bak) 2020 / funded by Nord-Süd-Brücke Stiftung,
Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung, Purin Pictures and Goethe-Institut Thailand


︎ Thai Film Screenings Berlin 2019 at Moviemento
︎Thai Evening in Berlin 2019 at Schalet
Exhibition breaking-through of un.thai.tled collective (August 2019)
supported by UCity Thailand, Thai Airways, Singha Beer, ExBerliner, I-Heart-Berlin


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CURATORIALS

Contemporary arts-related



    Where is my karaoke? Let’s sing along and sing away


Mixed media and archival material installationon Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian music and histories in former East Germany (GDR)

Part of “Re-Connect: Art and Struggle in Brotherland” (curated by Sithara Weerathunga and Marcus Hurttig) /
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig / 17 May - September 2023 /

(Website)
 

    Where is my karaoke? Still, we sing


Exhibition and programme on Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian world-making practices and exchanges in former East Germany (GDR) /

Art Space D21 Leipzig / 25 May - 2 October 2022

(D21 website)


   

Beyond the kitchen: Stories from the Thai Park / Archive of Thai migration in Germany


March-July 2020; ongoing research

(museum website)

at Bezirksmuseum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, 2020 / funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Bezirksamt
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Goethe-Institut Thailand








utamachote
ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ
“Because I am human”



cultural producer/
film director /
curator

- based in berlin

Sarnt Utamachote © 2024




































Buddhist Monk

(6/8/2013-2015)


That is, again, a provocation, itches in their enduring silent bald

Forcing someone an order, and sacrifice your own humane?

How and who, can a man possibly grab such halo?
A light, a blacklight -
How can a man possibly retrieve semblance,
the flow of dead silver veins down river;
to join with the mad, the fool, in the wiser’s mind
where heart is located, at distance
on big lotus pedal
dropped by gold’s salt,
to transform beyond gold’s blood
And all else will be done before
it turns silvery and slips

Back in, smiles?
Smile of the rich, smile of the poor, the glowing teeth,
of satisfaction, up for man’s deliberate contempt
meditating their own kind
making senses circle of irony all over

When they cut his hair, it’s his throat
When they wash away his soul, Is it cleansed?
or colden?
In that courtroom, by judges; I really want to ask;
ask what whether is he a man, or beast painted
or fleshflash skin?
How can you let someone, another unknown,
criticizing, perjuring our own type?;
What you are, causes you to be not

You walk, and you slow in front of me,
No worry I have no harm – and you have none,
Since I have hoped so -
Until we see the knives, in your own
pure hands, majestically white