︎ CURATORIALS ︎
My curatorial focus is on the intersection between artistic researches (research in archives, communities, histories, sites via artisitic means)
and activism - with focus on LGBT+ Southeast Asian persons in diaspora/exile
with collective un.thai.tled
as independent researcher
Young Birds From Strange Mountains
on queer artists’ role in shamanism, spirituality and archive in Southeast Asiaon Thai and Filipina women migration to West Germany
on intersection of service work, care labor, sex work, and interracial marriageon Cambodian exiled art students from East Germany
(and immigrant from former Indochina)
or German art history from immigrant students’ perspectiveson exiled films from Southeast Asia found in Germany
utamachote
ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ
ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ
Young Birds From Strange Mountains
นกแปลกจากหุบเขาประหลาด
Con chim đến từ núi lạ
Burung-burung Muda dari Pegunungan Antah Berantah
Group exhibition with young queer artists and archives from Southeast Asia and its diapora
Co-curated with Hải Nam Nguyễn, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Thảo Hồ, Ragil Huda / 28th November 2024 to August 2025 / Schwules Museum
Featuring Kelvin Atmadibrata, Hoo Fan Chon, Suriya Sam-Khuth, Việt Lê, Indra Liusuari, Oat Montien, Nu, Natthapong Samakkaew, Shasti, Eda Phanlert Sriprom, Tamarra, Thảo Miên Trần, Queer Indonesia Archive, Hanoi Queer Museum, Vanasay Khamphommala, Alvin Collantes, Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Visal Kim, and more
(Monopol Article “Der junge Vogel weiß nicht, warum er singt”)
(Tagespiegel Article “Queere Kunst aus Südostasien”)
