Palita Chunsaengchan

All the public events in the series Southeast Asian Cinema and Its Diaspora: Theory/Praxis/Politics (2022-24) that I hosted and co-hosted at the University of Minnesota are listed in the slideshows. Highlights include events such as webinar roundtables and free SEA film screenings for the audience in the Twin Cities. All of the events were funded by the Imagine Fund Special Events, Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. I sincerely thank my co-organizer, co-moderator, Elizabeth Wijaya (Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto) and staffs at the Asian Institute for all the wonderful collaboration and support.

Creative Collaboration

FREETIME (2022) 

Artist residency project by Anocha Suwichakornpong at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

I participated as a subtitle editor and controllerin this live staged performance of Suwichakornpong’s new film project. The staging of the texts on the screen used as a backdrop of a theatrical space mimics the way in which subtitles are shown in movies. The synchronous liveness of the text that needs to match the dialogue spoken on stage complicates, nonetheless, the boundary of performance in cinema and theater. The subtitle controller acted in conjunction with the actresses on stage, and yet, remained in the dark, on the top row of the theater.

Public Events