Dotscape, Video single channel 2005 / Color/ PAL/ 6.48 min with sound scape from Jean C. Roche (FR)

CITY: A trip between Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand.

I took a train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai just because I wanted to enjoy the scenery. But I couldn’t enjoy the scenery through the railway window because of the advertising sticker outside. So, I turned feeling of annoying of advertising dot on railway’s window to pretended feeling of scenery-enjoying through dizzy patterns.

My trip this time has given me a question whether this is a limitation of enjoyment or an opportunity of new enjoyment in Thailand’s capitalism era.

Can advertisement buy or change our local’s enjoyable scenery?

Can I somehow enjoy doted advertised scenery?

The answer to my question explains my feeling among the gradually changed interior from cityscape to landscape that the scenery has interpreted into a whistle voice in deep forest.

“Dotscape” has shown in Pallas Studio, Dublin, Ireland, NBK, Berlin, Germany, META, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Episode5, Singapore, C A M E R A / O B S C U R A, Sydney, Australia, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA, RADCAT- Roy and Edna Disney/ CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, USA, Lifeboat #2551 at Gallery 4A , Sydney Biennalle Parallel Exhibitions.

Up coming show: Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Japan (July 09),

24HR Art, Australia (June 09)

read review: Head or Tail from http://www.experimentalconversations.com/reviews/169/head-or-tail/

Review Posted: 08 Oct 08

"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