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


King Arthur

(3/7/2016)


On the bridge
Waiting
Loud sirens of your crime
Black taint tars
Belong to us to figure out,
In case you want to;
Where does it come from?
And also why?
Why have you been holding them so dear
If I let,
a flower could arise in words
Bear my question fruitful,
Lastly turn your face away
So unbearable face,
A crime
Through is through
A hole,
A rose, outside the ring
My winterheart
Stitches past with wither
Blade in reflection
A beauty
Will no longer find ways back
All kept in this
Sharp moment, between two edges
That, one, should have pierced you
In order, for another, to pierce me
In equal thorns
I realize and feed
Touching black liquid
Bleeding back in
Bow myself to madness of
Echoing words;
As answer to their own
Echoing questions;
That should fit perfect
In written list of hunger men
In foreshadow
Who shield arrows and artilleries
Legacy

- But if you decide to run,
Then become please, more than pebbles,
Right, as stone
Despite centuries in the deep
Hold no wonders in selves
One simple word that I used to reply,
Now it is to subside,
Everytime, on this uncanny space between black and white
Nobody waits
We all just try to make a better sense;
Locked in stones,
In your heart as well
So who could take it out shall be crowned.

It could be easily, your own legacy
If you never would object
Two hands on, together
Steel
Although won’t save your life
Won’t spare a single
Then, could somehow bring you home