MONTIKA KHAM-ON

 

Born 1999, Samutprakarn, Thailand

Lives and works in Samutprakarn, Thailand

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Montika Kham-on is a filmmaker.  She explores the potentials of moving images, and the possibilities of film technologies to examine the past and manifest multiple futures.

 

Kham-on is also interested in fields that work with the body, from theater to dance. She strives to incorporate said fields with moving images to grapple with what is beyond the boundaries of language. Currently, Kham-on is working on the project titled “Siamese Futurism,” a world-building project that investigates memories, storytelling, and tales hidden in the past in order to expand and recontextualize new stories for the future.

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EDUCATION

 

2017 - 2021                      Bachelor of Communication arts  (Motion Pictures and Still Photography),              

                                             Chulalongkorn University

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2023                                   Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Part of Zomia on the cloud, Chiang Rai, Thailand

                                             LAF: Loei Art Fes 5, Loei, Thailand

                              Anarco Animism, Kinan, Japan

                                             La Chamber Cocon, Part of residency program

                                             curated by Tomoya Iwata and Saki Hibino 

                                             Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, French         

                                             OFF the Ground, a videofale from alternative spaces around the world,

                                             Spacemium, Ulsan, South Korea

                                             Yong-fu No.5, Tamsui, Taiwan,

                                             Absence Space, Tainan, Taiwan

                                             Labsal e.V., Dortmund, Germany, 

                                             Bayt Almamzar, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

                                             Colloquium, Sendai, Japan

                                             Zingvdo, Bangkok, Thailand

                                             Rivers of Life: A Tale of Two Rivers, ICONLUXE Pop Up Space Bangkok, Thailand 

             

2022                                   Reborn-Art Festival, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan

 

2021                                  Crypto for Cryptids, curated by SPEEDY GRANDMA, JWD ART SPACE, Bangkok,                                                                        Thailand

                                            Talk-Talk-Vilion, curated by SPEEDY GRANDMA, part of the Bangkok Biennial,                                                                              Bangkok, Thailand

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AWARD AND SELECTED PROJECTS

 

2023                                Honorable Mention Award, R.D. Pestonji  from the Thai Short Film & Video Festival                                 

                                          Finalist at Bangkok Critics Assembly - Short film category “to you, in 2000 years” 

            

2021                                Selected Project at Talk-Talk-Vilion, part of the Bangkok Biennial - Project development                                             “The Buried Giant”

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PRESS

 

2022                                Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, The Horizon                                                   and the Holy: Re-imaging the Thai Monarchy Following the 2020 Protests, Volume 6,      

                                          Number 2, October 2022 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/43/article/871502/pdf?fs=e&s=cl

 

2022                                Dazed Magazine Feature Spring 2022: Korakrit Arunanonchai & the Thai Artists Series, 

                                          March 2022 

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EXPERIENCES

 

2022                                Project Manager at HOSTS program,

                                          a docent program in Ghost2565 live without dead time 

                                          Organized by the founding organization Ghost Foundation and co-hosted by main                                                       partner OPEN FIELD

 

2021                                Film Programmer for Public Screening at BANGKOK ART BOOK FAIR (BKKABF) 2021                                                nitiated by STUDIO51 in partnership with BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY

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