GHOST ARCHIVES AND DIASPORAS OF THAILAND
This project addresses contemporary art in Thailand, a nation-state characterized by military dictatorship, a Buddhist body politic, and an enduring belief in ghosts and village spirits. Taking seriously community lore that such entities are non-human actors, the project focuses on traces of materiality, haunting as colonial legacy, and how a burgeoning arts scene both in and beyond Thailand engages with such questions.
auflynn [at] arts.ucla.edu
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn is an Associate Professor at the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles. Working as an anthropologist and curator, Alex’s practice explores the intersection of ethnographic and curatorial modes of enquiry. Researching collaboratively with activists, curators and artists in Brazil since 2007, Alex explores the prefigurative potential of art in community contexts, prompting the theorisation of fields such as the production of knowledge, the pluriversal, and the social and aesthetic dimensions of form.