Re-Invocation follows workshops between Jonathan Armour and ‘Golf’ Thanupon Yindee at the Studio 88’s Gender Fluid Residency in May/June 2024, but opens the experience to a wider group of participants.
Here, each person was exploring their response to other (digital) people in scenarios often not possible in the physical/biological world – a reflection on how our existence is becoming hybrid.
“Our social and sexual lives are harbingers of an increasingly digital, dematerialised future, in which identity is a construct rather than an accident of birth. It’s a transhuman era.
…the growing embrace of all things trans, or liminal, is part of a larger story of Homo Sapiens in transition. We’re a transhuman species that’s set to become increasingly trans gender, trans race, trans body.
…we’re heading for a future that is post-biological: a world in which our minds and
bodies are digital, our experiences are virtual. We could be whatever we want. We could change our bodies in a blink.”
-Elise Bohan – senior research scholar at University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute.
This workshop was setup at the request of Dr. Wirasant Wirunsakunphiban, Professor of Performing Arts at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University.
Participants included: Anchapat Soralum (Anna), Plengpin Khunwang (Jasmine), Chitapon Suwannawong (thyme), Ratchanon Chantanuch (Artit), Wirasant Wirunsakunphiban (Katha), Nakarin Maneechot (Kaow)
