Tuesday, October 16, 2007

DRIFT (2007, SATHIT SATTARASART, A+)

THIS IS MY COMMENT IN BIOSCOPE WEBBOARD:

http://www.bioscopemagazine.com/smf/index.php?topic=71.480

MY FAVORITE OLD SONG FOR THE MOMENT IS "OCEAN BLUE" by ABC

You can watch OCEAN BLUE's music video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF844FUyauI

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http://www.bioscopemagazine.com/smf/index.php?topic=659.0

--After a day has passed, now I think I would upgrade "DRIFT" from "A" to "A+". I don't know the intention of Sathit Sattarasart for this art project, but what I like very much about DRIFT is that it's the first art project in which I "stay in". Normally, when I go to see an art exhibition, most of exhibitions I see affect me VISUALLY. But there's nothing visually special in DRIFT. It looks like a very normal hotel room for me, but I stayed in the room for nearly 2 hours to inspect many parts of the room and watch a DVD. And the memory of those two hours is with me now, though I drifted away from that place yesterday. This is not an art exhibition WHICH I SEE, but it is an art exhibition WHERE I STAYED, WHERE I WAS, WHICH I WAS A PART OF. The brochure for DRIFT asks the audience to look for the ARTIST'S TRACES in the room, but I don't know what they are. I look for them, but I think I found the traces of the exhibition visitors who came to the room before me. I think in this art exhibition, EACH EXHIBITION VISITOR, INCLUDING ME AND MY FRIEND, MIGHT BECOME "THE ARTIST", OR AT LEAST A PART OF THE EXHIBITION.
http://www.nothinginmotion.com/projects/2007drift.htm

This is the map to Rose Hotel:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/1589056204_0898588a7d_o.jpg

This is a photo of DRIFT from Sathit's website:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2127/1589056190_b8e3741cfd_o.jpg

The three photos below were shot by my cheap mobile phone:

--A note Sathit left on the window pane:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2305/1589056216_7dbd4ea174_o.jpg

--The bed on which each exhibition visitor can lie:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2013/1589056224_15ffd3d140_o.jpg

--The vanity mirror:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2140/1589056236_7f6f05f825_o.jpg













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