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Bangkok Art Biennial in collaboration with Marina Abramovich Institute, October 18 – November 12, 2018, 12 – 8 pm, 22 days, 176 hours

Photo: Preecha Pattara

Having a different opinion to the power is the only reason you can be disappeared by state.
Kierkegard said that faith is the highest passion in man. He wanted to understand faith in fear and tremble.

I was assuming that faith is the vicious circle of fear-forget-forgive.
Here from a limbo state, I am singing out names of people who were untimely disappeared for faith in life. These people were brutally vanished from the surface of the earth as if they never existed. These 35 names of people are repeated by the Zulu time to remind the power how faith that keeps on living and is not possible to kill by killing a man.

The Zulu time, famously known as military time to be accurate everywhere around the world which is 5 am to 1 pm according to Bangkok timing 12 pm to 08 pm. The other two timings are coming from the original time at Buenos Aires and Washington DC, according to the Bangkok timing, 12 pm to 08 pm. The first is famous for its notorious cases of ‘Desaparecidos’ and also unique way of retaliation, the 2nd notoriously known to support/operate such cases country to country.
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