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(Fungi in Your Headlights exhibition)
Drunken Mushroom Syndrome, 2025
(Fungi in Your Headlights)
by Arnont Nongyao
Sound installation part of “Fungi in Your Headlights” exhibition
6 the repurposed flat wooden speaker panel , sound system 12 channels
(2’5” speakers), 12 media players, electric cables, 1 wood chair.
at Panic Room (DC Collection), Chiang Mai.
The piece explores the acoustic reflection at a cave entrance, a transitional boundary where sound waves from within and outside the cave overlap. This creates an abnormal sonic condition that surrounds us, enveloping the body before we journey inside. The six mushroom-shaped wooden plates serve a dual purpose, acting as both sound receivers and reflectors. The installation features 12 sounds played back from recordings made in and around caves in the UK and Thailand. The piece can be heard from a conversational distance, but the listener is invited to lean their ear against the plates, allowing the vibration to permeate and create another sound to be heard.
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“Fungi in Your Headlights” (Sing of Taahms) the exhibition features three sound installation pieces by Arnont, alongside two video art works developed in collaboration between NooN collective and Arnont.
‘…The atmosphere within the cave, like a dialogue with darkness, unfolds imagination beyond any boundary, revealing new paths of existence, allowing us to utter across time and uncertainty together…’
NooN Collective from the UK and Thai sound artist Arnont Nongyao explored the sound and myceloid communication of living organisms within caves. By linking Satun UNESCO Global Geopark in Thailand and the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark in Torquay, UK, it weaves ecological and cultural threads between the two regions. They have woven their abstract discoveries from the caves into a sound and moving-image installation. The exhibition invites audiences to step into darkness, awaken their senses and journey back to a primordial time when our relationship with the world was still fresh, intimate, and boundless in imagination.
This exhibition is part of TAAHM, a project funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants. Produced by CAC - Chiang Mai Art Conversation and Filament Works CIC.
Artists collaborated : Arnont Nongyao with NooN collective ( Emilio Mula, Ric Byer, Clare Parker)
Produced by CAC - Chiang Mai Art Conversation and Filament Works CIC
Project manager in Thailand Atikom Mukdaprakorn
Project manager in UK Nat Palin
Project advisor Som Supaparinya
Artist assistant Kritsada Phonchai
Exhibition coordinator Piyathida Inta
Graphic designer Krai Sridee and Noppakorn Larpgerd
Exhibition setup New Found Art Handler
Sound engineer Siwat Maksuwan and Achita Chantharaket
Photos and video by Peasadet Compiranont
more info : https://www.taahm.art
”Drunken Mushroom Syndrome”
Sound installation
6 the repurposed flat wooden speaker panel , sound system 12 channels
(2’5” speakers), 12 media players, electric cables, 1 wood chair.
”Singing of TaahMs”
Sound and Video installation
9 tree speakers, sound system 9 channels (horn speakers), 9 media players, video 15 mins.
”Mushroom Ocean (No Lyrics)”
Sound installation
37 light ball speakers, sound system 37 channels (mix speakers size), 1 photo 18’ x 32’
Video 1 : “Urai Thong Cave Live”
Full HD 1080i, Code : MPEG-4 video, AAC timecode, 38.00 mins.
