MAHA Pavilion Performance Schedule

The MAHA Pavilion performances will take place between 4th - 21st November 2020 in various locations in Bangkok, Los Angeles and all the space in between!

November 4th, 2020

The Unsurrendered Distortion, by Yanin Bandhaya

Time and Location: 4th Nov unattended performance at Wat Khaek
                                    21st Nov LomoKino film premiere at Bangkok 1899
The Unsurrendered Distortion is an interpretative work by Thai musician and choreographer, Yanin Badhaya, based on a proposal by New York-based filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri. The choice of investigating the site and architecture of Wat Khaek stems from Suneil’s South Asian heritage and Indian diasporic identity. In Thai, the word “khaek” is a derogative term that conflates Hindu and Muslim identities. Built in the 1800s by a Tamil immigrant, fleeing the British colonial rule in India, the original name of the temple is Wat Sri Mahamariamman, the Mother Earth and Goddess of Rain. Using the novelty film camera, the LomoKino to record the performance, the delayed recording of the images allow for the multiple layers of the site to reveal itself. Between political and spiritual, profane site of tourism and religious pilgrimage, the khaek is an ambiguous figure in Thai culture, belonging and not belonging at the same time.  

The work is composed of two parts: on November 4th, Yanin will perform a choreography based on the dance for the Goddess Mariyamman at Wat Khaek. The performance will be recorded with the novelty film camera, the LomoKino. The film will then be processed, edited and on view on the MAHA Pavilion website.
Wat Khaek Sri Mahamariamman, ​2 Pan Rd, Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok 10500, Thailand

November 8th, 2020

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​by Wilawan Wiangthong and Kim Zumpfe

Time and Location: Thailand November 8th, 12pm -BTS Skytrain Sukhumvit line  ( Light -Green line) MoChit BTS St, Victory
                                    monument BTS St., Chitlom BTS st.
                                    Los Angeles November 7th, 9pm - Metro Blue line, Union Station, Yellow Line
                                    IGTV live stream
Wilawan Wiangthong and Kim Zumpfe will simultaneously perform in the Bangkok and Los Angeles Metro Rail systems. On the train, each performer will interact with fabrics gathered from their respective cities. These fabrics are intended as multi-dimensional: a liminal space that can hold a transformation of the body within the limited environments of the city, the pliability of exteriors that occur between the many overlapped lives within metropolitan cities, an impression of the politics of self-portrayal from the unseen lives that previously wore them, and the respective symbolism of the colors and designs. During the metro ride, each performer will enact tensions between fabrics and body as resistant and non-conforming behavior in relation to the constructs of the city. Each performance will occur on the train from an outlying area to the center of the city, where a performance will occur in Bangkok at Mochit Bts station and in Los Angeles at Union Station. Each performer will then travel to an outlying area again to complete the performance on the Metro. This performance will be streamed on Instagram Live.
View on IGTV: @maha_pavilion2020
Sukhumvit BTS Skytrain Green Line
Long Beach Metro Blue Line

November 11th, 2020

somewhere between remembering and forgetting lies a deliberate space of resistance, 
​​by Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn and Ryat Yezbick

Time and Location: November 11th at 5pm PST Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles/ 7pm ICT Sanam Luang area, Bangkok/
​                                    IGTV live stream
For this work, the artists lent their bodies and sight to one another as proxies to explore each other’s respective cities, Bangkok and Los Angeles. They engaged with one another’s worlds via phone tours of contested sites, both personal and political. To contest highly mythologized and romanticized notions of these two cities, perpetuated by the film industry, the artists examined their own experiences to place, excavating the violence and vulnerability of the cities’ inhabitants that is often hidden from view. The artists are each performing a piece in response to this process in their respective cities at a site relevant to the phone tours they conducted for each other. The site of the performance in LA traces part of the toured path by the artists. we retraced the likely trail of a blm protest that began in pan pacific park and was besieged by cops around 3rd street. the path coalesced with painful and banal personal memories layered like a palimpsest. The resulting performance is a layering of time, space, place, remembering and forgetting between two cities and two performers grappling with personal and political injustices in their cities.
View on IGTV: @maha_pavilion2020
Pan Pacific Park, 7600 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Sanam Luang, Ratchadamnoen Avenue, Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok 10200, Thailand

November 15th, 2020

Nothing Belongs to Us, 
​by Linda Franke and Yingyai Kampanat Kotkaew

Time and Location: everywhere in Bankok, ongoing
 Linda Franke and Yingyai Kampanat Kotkaew's project is an on-going archive where the artists have been asking participants to submit photos of an object they frequently use and an object they are about to discard. From this collection of images, the artists then printed the photos on front and back of T-shirts and redistributed them for the participants to wear. Each participant receives a T-shirt with objects that they did not submit. For the fourth performance date of the MAHA Pavilion the participants are invited to take part of a photoshoot in an undisclosed location in Bangkok. The event will be streamed live on the @maha_pavilion2020 IGTV.
​View on IGTV: @maha_pavilion2020
Bangkok, Thailand

November 18th, 2020

SYMBIO, 
by Teo Ala-Ruona and Boat Sutasinee Kansomdee

Time and Location: 7pm ICT Speedy Grandma rooftop 
Using written speculative fiction, somato-fictional exercises and technology as mediums to imagine closeness and intimacy across distance, this work presents a fantasy in which the performer is welcoming another being to co-inhabit their body in a mutualistic and parasitic way, for the time of the performance. The performer speaks a duet with a loudspeaker, vacillating between English and Thai. Together they form a techno-imaginary-symbiotic-cyborg by speaking in unison: the performer is the host and the loudspeaker’s sound is the parasite that visits the site of the performance through the performer’s body. 
Speedy Grandma, 11 Charoen Krung 24, Talat Noi, Samphanthawong, Bangkok 10100, Thailand