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(Fungi in Your Headlights exhibition)
Urai Thong Cave Live, 2025
(Fungi in Your Headlights)
by NooN Collective and Arnont Nongyao
Video installation part of “Fungi in Your Headlights” exhibition
Video Full HD 1080i, Code : MPEG-4 video, AAC timecode, 38.00 mins.
at Panic Room (DC Collection), Chiang Mai.
We explored Urai Thong Cave in Satun. Because of its unique physical structure as a pass-through cave, with openings at both the front and back, it acts as a natural transmitter, sending sound from one side of the mountain to the other. We decided to improvise with the existing sounds of the cave, accompanied by a live video performance sent by Clare, a member of the NooN group from the UK.
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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.
