Synopsis

Conceived and moderated by Wong Binghao (Bing) as part of their CoThink Lab Fellowship at T:>Works, this closed-door programme for artists, graduate students, curators, and researchers will feature presentations by artist Sorawit Songsataya and anthropologist Sahana Ghosh, who will share ongoing research and artworks. Utilising gender as a methodology in their respective practices, Sorawit and Sahana reconceive and interrogate national, geopolitical, and regional formations, as well as modes of representing and making sense of the self.

About Sorawit Songsataya

Sorawit Songsataya is a multimedia artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, New Zealand. Previous interdisciplinary work encompasses sculpture, ceramic, textile, moving-image, and 3D animation. Acknowledging Te Ao Māori and Thai belief systems, Sorawit explores themes rooted in geological, ecological, and culturally significant histories to redefine our understandings of subjectivity and ecology.

About Sahana Ghosh

Sahana Ghosh is a social anthropologist, broadly interested in forms and experiences of inequality produced through the intersection of mobility, policing, and gender in our contemporary world. Sahana uses ethnography and feminist approaches to study a range of concerns, such as: borders and borderlands, the mobility of people and goods, citizenship, refuge and neighborliness, the national security state, agrarian change, spatial history, transnational kinship, and the political economy of gendered labor. She conducts research in India and Bangladesh.

About Wong Binghao (Bing)

Binghao (Bing) approaches art essayistically, as eclectic constellations of practice, research, and lived experience. They apply this modality to create essays and discursive projects including publications, digital, public, research, and educational programs, performance and live events, creative direction, and international exchange and residency programs. They are invested in developing rigorous and original research around contemporary art practices, specifically in relation to transfeminist approaches to gender, sex, love, popular cultures, new media and technology, anthropology, and area studies.

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