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In his video Songs for dying, departing from the loss of his own grandfather, Arunanondchai unfolds the medium which carries the idea of self and the community into the space of the unknowable. Ghosts, shamans, and a dying sea turtle are not only metaphors but also the very flesh from which processes of becoming and decomposition must pass through. In these stories rich in mythological references and symbols, the artist simultaneously takes up social and political realities of life in Thailand characterized by military rule, monarchy and pro-democracy protests. Songs shape the arc of the exhibition, which leads the audience through a polyphonic narrative in which events are testified to the emotional and transcendent impulses of peoples, nations, and beings living under the symbols of higher powers.