{"data":{"id":"57974","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":57974,"topgoose_id":22836,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":57974,"title":"Painting With History In A Room Filled With People With Funny Names 3","display_artist_text":"Korakrit Arunanondchai","display_date":"2015","accession_number":"P.2018.4","dimensions":"Aspect Ratio: 16:9","medium":"Video installation, color, sound, 25:29 min., with denim pillows","department":"special","classification":"Installations","credit_line":"Promised gift of Robert Rosenkranz","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eKorakrit Arunanondchai, \u003cem\u003ePainting With History In A Room Filled With People With Funny Names 3\u003c/em\u003e, 2015. Video installation, color, sound, 25:29 min., with denim pillows, aspect Ratio: 16:9. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Robert Rosenkranz P.2018.4\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":null,"ai_alt_text":"Large screen shows a person by water with English subtitles; blue and white pillows are arranged on the floor.","alt_text":"In collaboration with artist Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chrissie Iles wrote the following wall text for \"Painting With History In A Room Filled With People With Funny Names 3\" for the \"Mountain / Time\" Exhibtion at the Aspen Art Museum from May 27 - September 11: The films of Korakrit Arunanondchai form elements of a larger artistic practice in which sculpture, performance, installation, film and painting are all interdependent, and born out of each other. This interwoven practice is rooted in the polychronic cultural and spiritual belief systems and geo-political histories of Thailand, where most of the films are made. \u0026nbsp; This presentation, within a specially created environment made of denim textile, includes two films, each unfolding as an epic tale told by multiple voices, in which the shaman, the ghost, the King, spirits, monks, nâgas, soldiers, family members, trees, deities and mythical figures are all characters, woven together and transformed into one another. ‘Painting With History In A Room Filled With People With Funny Names 3’ is the third film in Arunanondchai’s ongoing ‘Painting with History’ series, investigating the entanglement of spirituality, technology, nature, and memory. Shots of the film’s protagonist, a Thai denim painter played by Arunanondchai, are intercut with performance documentation, appropriated media, and drone footage. In a drone sequence filmed at Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple), one of two narrators proposes that “heaven is a simplified version of the world recorded in high definition.” Arunanondchai raises questions about the recording and dissemination of information, and the veracity of shared knowledge, especially in an era characterized by increasing interconnectedness. \u0026nbsp;","visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2018-10-02T15:35:37.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:02:00.653-05:00","images":[]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"16815","type":"artist"}]}}}}