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Dotscape

The video, 2005/ The Installation, 2010

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ผลงานชิ้นนี้เป็นมุมมองขณะที่ฉันอยู่ด้านในรถไฟระหว่างการเดินทางจากกรุงเทพมา เชียงใหม่ การเดินทางเพื่อชมทิวทัศน์ระหว่างเมืองครั้งนี้ ทำให้ฉันหงุดหงิดจากรอยสติ๊กเกอร์โฆษณาสินค้าที่ติดอยู่รอบๆรถไฟ มันทำให้ทิวทัศน์ระหว่างเมืองอันสวยงามของฉันเป็นลายจุดทั้งหมด ทำให้ฉันตั้งข้อสงสัยว่า นี่คือการถูกจำกัดเสรีภาพ หรือนี่มันคือโอกาสของสุนทรียภาพแบบใหม่ของประเทศไทยในยุคพ่อค้ากันแน่ สื่อ โฆษณาสามารถซื้อหรือเปลี่ยนความเพลิดเพลินในการชมทิวทัศน์ท้องถิ่นได้หรือ ฉันเอาภาพนิ่งเป็นพันๆรูปที่ฉันถ่ายระหว่างการเดินทางครั้งนี้มาต่อกันเป็น ภาพเคลื่อนไหว

Single channel video installation, 2010 (the video itself was produced in 2005)

The video is screened on a reflective sticker polka dot pattern, Return Ticket: Thailand-Germany, on occasion of the 50th anniversary the Goethe-Institute in Bangkok, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand   (curated by Dr. Axel Feuss) *catalog

Screen dimensions: 400x300 cm.

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“The video “Dotscape” refers to a train journey made by the artist from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. Her anticipation of the enjoyment of the landscape was marred as she saw that all the windows in the train were covered with the matrix dots of advertising stickers. Will our future enjoyment persist in regarding everything through the grid of advertising?”

Dr. Axel Feuss- from Return Ticket: Thailand-Germany's catalog

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"In Dotscape, Sutthirat Supaparinya transfigures the diary format: a mechanical buzz accompanies a non-linear series of softly pixilated tableaux. Gerhard Richter's photo-referenced paintings come to mind. Shapes morph, pulsing with potential; patterns abstract the landscape with the subtlety of chain-link fencing; dots leap or fly. Was that a bird? But there is nothing luminous or even naturalistic about this world; modernity has altered ‘normal' vision, the visual field reduced to graphic effects. "

Written by Phillina Sun -from: Head or Tail from http://www.experimentalconversations.com/reviews/169/head-or-tail/
Review Posted: 08 Oct 08

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“This work poses the question: Can advertising and capitalism buy our view of landscapes and change the environment? When the journey begins in Bangkok, you see how advertising changes the cityscape in general. And then when you focus in on the specific advertising matrix, it also changes your view out the window and the whole experience of the train ride. So how should we view this? Where is the critical shift in consciousness?
Then when the train pulls out of Bangkok, it leads you through forest areas, the countryside, and small villages -- all the while still through the view of this obstructed window. The soundscape of the work is from a French artist who captured sounds from the forests of Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand and Malaysia. It doesn’t parallel the real sounds outside the train, but it makes sense to me in that it reflects how I dreamt about the forest while going on this journey.
This work has been shown as both a video and an installation piece. I would say that it is much better as an installation because the viewer has a more all-encompassing experience of the space. When you walk around, you experience the patterns and scenery in that moment in time from different angles depending on where you stand. When you are close to the screen, you only see the dots and not the overall image and it’s dizzying. When you step back, you can see the whole landscape more clearly and have a sense of groundedness in the image – each image is in order of what you would view on the train trip from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. However, in a sense, your perceptions and feelings continue shifting as you tag along on this journey of dynamically moving patterns through the landscape.”

Excerpt  from Sutthirat Supaparinya’s interview from New York Foundation for the Art Newsletter

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"While Jung over-sharpened and opened the image, Sutthirat Supaparinya’s Dotscape (2010) obscured vision to call our attention to what and how we see. In this clever video shot on a train in Thailand, where the windows are covered with dot-printed advertising, looking is mediated by the visual noise of marketing, which creates its own pointillist landscape."

Excerpt from FRIEZE magazine

Issue 147 May 2012

How Physical at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

By Michael Famighetti