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“Opera of Kard (market)”

Opera of Kard (Market), 2019

12-channel video installation, 12 stereo speakers, Dimension variable,
at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
Singapore Biennale 2019 commission.
info :
https://www.singaporebiennale.org/art/arnont-nongyao


Interested in the notion of sound as a vibration and the world as a network of complex vibrations, Arnont Nongyao creates experimental sound performances and installations. Opera of Kard (Market) is an immersive multi-screen installation. Each of the 12 channels plays back the sounds and scenery from a kard, or local market in northern Thailand. These weekly markets are gathering places where people from different ethnic backgrounds congregate, communicate and trade. From people chattering to birds singing and the wind blowing, each kard is, for the artist, also a musical score. Rearranged into a single composition, the sounds now come together as a socio-cultural operatic performance of the kard.

text by Vipash Purichanont. (curator)


12 sound pieces mixed of Opera of Kard for SB 2019



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video interview about processing of Opera of Kard for SB 2019