Love After Death unfolds as an autofiction in which Korakrit Arunanondchai gathers fragments of ideas from his earlier works to create moving-image footage, live performance and film scenes shot in an abandoned cinema in Lopburi. These elements are fused together through an intense editing process, alongside a new story Korakrit has written based on the Lanna legend of the Maeng Si Hu Ha Ta, a mythical creature that eats charcoal and excretes gold, until people come to worship it.
The work does not only observe the fluid, shifting states between the artist and a spirit medium, drawn from the belief of "phi jang nang", the ghost who commissions a film screening. It is also an experiment in transforming the exhibition space into the ghost's physical body, one that filters light, heat, memories and feelings, digesting and reshaping them into a collective experience, while summoning a range of figures to dance, from taxidermied animals to sleeping bodies.
It is the artist's ongoing search for the sacred in a profane world.
Translated by Opus 5
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