나윈 누통 (Nawin Nuthong), <플럭스 (Flux)> 및 <우연히 허기진 탐구자 (Seeker Accidentally Hungry)> (2024)

픽셀 애니메이션과 루핑 형식을 통해 태국의 복잡한 정치적 지형과 역사의 층위를 탐구한다. 특히 <우연히 배고파진 술래>는 고고학적 관점에서 게임적 요소를 분석하는 ‘아키오게이밍(Archaeogaming)’ 개념을 활용하여, 픽셀과 프레임 레이트라는 미디어 기술이 인간의 지각과 역사 기술 방식에 미치는 영향을 고찰한다. 숨바꼭질이라는 유희적 서사 아래에 잠복한 결핍과 마비의 감각은 기술과 역사가 조우하는 지점을 시사한다.

Nawin Nuthong, Flux (2024)

Single-channel video / Color / No Sound, 1 min (GIF)

Flux is an expanded study piece by Nawin Nuthong, exploring both artistic practice and layers of history. To consolidate his ideas, Nuthong creates this pixel animation using Aseprite as his main tool. Different stories unfold at their own timing and spacing, leading into a cycle of looping. These narratives, on the other hand, serve as reflections, resonating with the complex political landscape of Thailand that inspired Nuthong's work. Beyond serving as a media constituent of the exhibition’s body of works, the piece acts as a consolidation of the varied topics explored by Nuthong throughout the exhibition.

Nawin Nuthong, Seeker Accidentally Hungry (2024)

Single-channel video / Color / No Sound, 5 min

This body of work combines 8 frames, running as 10 frames per second as GIF. The eight frames come from the universal animation walk cycle, which mimics the gestures of human walking:

contact–down–pass–up–contact–down–pass–up–

A series of animated GIFs explores concepts around the tool of Archaeogaming, bringing together the media innovations of the pixel and the frame rate, and the practice of history, and how they relate to and transform the capabilities of human perception.

Storyline: On the large mountain lap, where the big meadow lays across, where those kindergarteners play hide and seek. They have been playing this fantastical hide and seek for fantastical days and weeks.

The play was probably started by a group of children, but after the seeker found other creatures, the creatures became involved with the play. The girl’s turn to seek, the turtle’s turn to seek, the vegetable’s turn to hide, the satyr’s turn to hide. All the laughter as creatures change roles to play.

But suddenly one seeker’s belly starts to roar. He sees a hamburger in the bush when it’s actually the bear’s hip. He sees a donut in the shadow but it’s actually Uncle Oak Tree’s eye. Not only the seeker, but all the creatures that were found by and following him also have a roaring belly.

It is the first time this play of fantastical hide and seek gets paralysed and slowed down. But no worries, the fantastical cafeteria in the kitchen will ring the bell in a fantastical minute! [belly’s roaring sound].