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














I associate the song “A New Error” with my sexual identity
Since I have realized I have become “A New Error” in this “Old Error” world
And I have been fighting many wars – between me and outside, between me and myself
And there is no unity, no peace, no satisfaction, no sign of rest
While I am bleeding and breathing hard,
I feel something – long gone forgotten –
It’s my pulse; my heartbeat
I – AM - ALIVE

































Thus I declare my self-independence
I declare my independence from the gay scene
As I, blasphemously, question things that run on this superficial surface
Things that govern our identity, like we are the slaves
Things that quality-control, so that we will be allowed to use word “LGBTQ” on our mask
Things that haunt us, since the beginning of time, and frontline since the 60s/70s -
Something that our ancestors went against, and we rebuilt –














And this is not an act of surrender
To Berlin, to the gay scene
That always wants a piece of me - tries to break my self apart – redefines who I am,








Because being “queer” means “to open and accept the difference”
Because being “queer” means “to share and take care - of the fallen and the risen”
Because being “queer” means “to be freed – and to be loved”

There are still many battles to fight – even more, after this declaration –
But I will do, following footsteps of our ancestors, of those who died for our rights
If you read and listen to my voice,
Let hold hands together,
We are all to blamed, for this curse – that we constructed,
That we imposed on our identity

From now on, I will let myself be guided ONLY by “love and care”
I will feed the society with my positive vibes (in my own way)
I will take responsibility on my shoulders – although none other do
I will feed the hunger with my lips – the hungry, sex-addicted bodies, with my wild freed soul
I will love, and love, and love – and accept, and respect, and fight



Homo Manifesto

This is written, as a reaction to Hustlaball Berlin 2017,

performed by Moderat; courtesy of BPitch Control Records







Why should I let other people decide what should I dress, which color should I fit?,
Other than black, leather, latex, sports – while the LGBTQ flag is rainbow?
Why should I let them bareback, or play me like I am a toy?
While I was born as individual intellectual human being – with heart and soul?
Why should I follow your inner fetish bodily commands – while mine is more about the soul?
And why should this heart and soul be called “old-styled” or “romanticism”?
As they are always part of us, what defines who we are – and our preferred pronouns?
Why should I follow the whispers into the wild night, to consume, more and more?
As they slowly forget how to be satisfied with what they have – especially, appreciate what they already have?
Why should I let my identity be defined by your system of identity?
As identity can’t be shaped by someone else, but by individual self only?



- And not through clothes, not through parties, not through drugs, not through sex positions,
not through music, not through lifestyle, not through culture, not through the outside things;

Identity is defined by ME – only by being ME













No more – I won’t let it.

I will try to stand strong, I will raise new against the sun and neonlights,
I am tired of faking, I am tired of the surface – like a snake longing for new sheddings,
I will open my mask and let the sunlight in, so I would feel the warmth – of humanity (if it still exists),
of friendship, of sharing-and-caring, of multicultural multiracial multi-identity diversity,












































This is me, this is my voice
I am gay, and I am proud to be gay