Religion of Mind

"Things Inside_08 (Notes from the past)", the performative installation on the wall that show

Chaiworawat’s emotion in every hour for one year, (15th November 2016-15th november 2017).

In each writing pad reveal the internal phenomena in between the time that he experienced such as

happiness, sadness or neutral. Even though these notes are his personal emotion, since

everyone have the same foundamental emotion in common. Thus these notes are personal in non-personal.

"Things inside_07 (Temporalities of existence)",  the progressed-durational performance from Things

Inside_05 (A used to be), Chaiworawat transformed more dust from mirrors and let it go in between

time and space by profiting surrounding factors such as events, weather and people.

In terms of the progression of this performance, Chaiworawat decides to participate in following performative events :

Sharing 576h, performative event organised by PAErsche and Gallerie Koppelmann-Kunstwerk

Nippes, Cologne, Germany.

Equinox to Equinox, day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy, a project proposed by

Chumpon Apisuk and facilitated by Bbyond Belfast and PAErche, Aachener Weiher, Cologne.

Boondocks III Hannover, week of international multimedia and performance project at Ihmezemtrum,

Kesselhaus and at Kunsthalle Faust. Organised by Christiane Oppermann, Ilka Theurich and Beyond

Belfast. Chaiworawat participated on the fourth day of the event at Ihmezemtrum.

In "Things inside_05 (A used to be)", durational performance that Chaiworawat created a metaphorical daily activity as a routine job which he spent 6 hours of each day in order to transform a human-scale mirror to be dust for 3 days.

Chaiworawat implied the relation between Artificial object and its own nature through this performance. The result of this performance is the dust that he preserved as an object which he considered that is the concrete result of acts. In parallel, he was able to explore himself with internal term by profiting daily life.

The installation of objects and video represents a durational performance lasting 18 hours during which Chaiworawat pulverize a human scale mirror, using simply rocks as tools. He transformed this activity into a daily routine job, working exactly six hours a day, three days in a row. The dust of the

pulverised mirror is the outcome of this metaphorical daily activity. 

The work represents the artist’s personal idea about the meaning of “self” which is based on Buddhism‘s doctrine of a “non-self”, meaning that there is no unchanging, permanent self, soul or essence in living beings. The artist combines the buddhist concept with the nature of the mirror, reflecting the performer during his working process. He could see himself all the time in the mirror and its pieces until the end of the performance when there was only dust remaining.

"Things inside_03 (Round of existence)", Interactive Moving Image Installation, as a part of 'Things inside' at Akademiegalerie, Munich Germany.

Chaiworawat invited people to experience inside themselves by using 49 footages in 7 monitors which represent 49 days of Chaiworawat’s sitting meditation as a part of his practice when he was a monk in Thailand.

Monitors display loops of 7 days in life, from Sunday to Saturday, which define that everything is able to be happened, remain for certain period and disappear or transform to other states at the end. Even in the same circumstance is always different.