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A talk event in relation to the exhibition Touch My Mumblings, Hug My Words, Kiss My Singing

Girl, Your Body Has So Many Holes for Straws


Performative Curation in Mediating Personal Narrative-based Exhibitions Toward Porous Memory.

Moderator: Sun Kim (Director of Touch My Mumblings, Hug My Words, Kiss My Singing)
Guest Speakers: Adulaya Hoontrakul (Director of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre), Kaku Nagashima (Associate professor of Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts; Director of Tokyo Festival)
Interpreter: Kana Miyazawa
Technical Operations: Wataru Shoji
Coordinator: Alissa Osada-Phornsiri




Girl, Your Body Has So Many Holes for Straws : Performative Curation in Mediating Personal Narrative-based Exhibitions Toward Porous Memory is exploring the possibilities of personal and autonomous narrative as a curatorial methodology. The main title of this event, Girl, Your Body Has So Many Holes for Straws is cited from the title of a poem by Korean poet Hyesoon Kim. She gives birth to language through her own body and gives birth to “others” through it. For her, the hole is a new dimension where she can give birth to infinite others and simultaneously intermingle with them with her own language and body. Similarly, in this talk, we will reframe the autobiographical narrative and its meanings as calling back the infinite hidden ‘others’ beyond the ‘self’. Moderator Sun Kim (Director of the upcoming interdisciplinary exhibition “Touch My Mumblings, Hug My Words, Kiss My Singing”) will discuss with two specialists in each field, Kaku Nagashima (Director of Tokyo Festival) and Adulaya Hoontrakul (Director of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre), alternative curatorial perspectives through traversing the theatrical performance perspective.
While researching for the upcoming exhibition, Sun realised that not only her grandmother, but many of her grandmother’s generations, especially those in Asia who lived through colonialism and modernisation, had a common hesitation to talk about themselves. But she also realised that their silence was an act that consciously or unconsciously influenced her generation in many ways, leaving them with feelings or traumas that cannot be clearly explained.

Through this talk session, Sun aims to share the panel’s thoughts with audiences regarding how we can imagine new ways to foster a place to emancipate and intermingle with infinite alienated others, such as our grandmother generation, through the understanding of ourselves, our own body, and language. Through this, we aim to materialise a porous imagination where our own narrative coexists with the narratives of “others”.






Speakers

Adulaya Kim Hoontrakul


 is an art curator-historian.
She holds a graduate degree in History of Art and Archaeology with Music from SOAS and a postgraduate from Goldsmiths London/LASALLE College of the Arts in Asian Art Histories. She is a PhD student at GEIDAI Tokyo in Art Studies and Curatorial Practice and is the current Director of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. Kim has worked with multiple artists and inter-disciplinary exhibitions from around Asia Pacific, her current research is on decolonisation dialogues and politics of craft.

Nagashima Kaku


 specializes in dramaturgy in the field of performing arts.
His involvement with theater came first as a performance subtitles operator and script translator, and has since participated in various scenes of performing arts as a dramaturg: a creative partner of directors and choreographers. His recent concerns have seen him seek ways to take ideas and know-how of the theater outside the theater space, involving him with various art projects. NAGASHIMA is also one of the FT Label Program Directors at the Tokyo Festival. His published works include “How to Build the House of Atreus” and translations of Samuel Beckett’s works, “Worstward Ho” as well as “The Complete Plays of Samuel Beckett” series (supervision, co-translation.