Liminal Zone

2012-2013 l Two-Channel HD Video l 8 min l sound

Isan is a region prescribed as a marginalized of both economic and political. There are a lot of people from Isan who

migrated from their locality to various places both in the country and out of the country to find some jobs.

This workpiece is focused to diaspora culture by which I have made an observation of the daily life of Isan Thai laborers

who migrated from their rural to city. And I chose to present their special identity of Moh-Lam-Sing (a modernized genre

of folk Moh-Lam performance) where often came by a caravan to present their performance in various places in the country 

including Bangkok. I would like to study how Isan Thai laborers negotiate their identity to public under such Bangkok-centered 

Thai cultural hegemony in the globalizing world. This workpiece is interpreted in liminality of the concept of Homi K. Bhabha.

In the 'Liminal Zone', I have tried to present how temporal space as Moh-Lam-Sing parallel to liminal spaces that well-matched

to negotiate for its power and culture, including temporary exchange of roles of people which is open to multiple possibilities.

The part of this workpiece is inspired from the writings of Ajarn Pattana Kitiarsa, an anthropologist's Isan bloodline who has

passed away.