Supamart Boonnil

Squish! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary culture, and a constant process of constructing and deforming new selves to simulate ‘movements’. By extrapolating and redefining the terms of ‘movement’, be it through psychological, physical or political understandings, the work interweaves the medium of animation with a state of depression.

Commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival as an exploration into the globalised shipping networks, liminal territories and spaces of trade and labour that converge on the port city of Laem Chabang in Thailand.

“herstory” is a project that borrows the word history and retells it through women’s perspectives. It presents stories situated in various contextual ‘spaces,’ which serve as backdrops revealing the ‘emotional spaces’ of female characters in film. Through their voices, the narratives convey their emotions, political frustrations, and the quiet pressures imposed by social structures.