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(Fungi in Your Headlights exhibition)
Singing of TaahMs, 2025
(Fungi in Your Headlights)
by Arnont Nongyao
Sound and video installation part of “Fungi in Your Headlights” exhibition
9 speaker trees, 9-channel sound system (horn speakers), 9 media players, 1 video (15 mins)
at Panic Room (DC Collection), Chiang Mai.
The rhythm of dripping water in the cave is akin to Morse code, an early form of human long-distance communication that used rhythmic sound patterns to convey language. In a similar way, the dripping water becomes the cave's own language—a sound it uses to express and communicate its very existence. It is like a song or a melody that changes endlessly with the passage of time, just like our own existence. (The piece features a fusion of nine dripping water sounds from caves in the UK and Thailand.)
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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.
