If There’s No Reply, Is That Silence Still Love? | te Online Lectures
If There’s No Reply, Is That Silence Still Love?
《如果没有回应，那种沉默，是否仍属于爱？》
Speaker: Wantanee Siripattananuntakul
Language: English
9AM EDT (New York) / 2PM BST (London) (*Attendees in other time zones, please convert to your local time)
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul has lived with Beuys, an African grey parrot, since 2013. After more than a decade together, she has come to know Beuys’ voices, movements, routines, fears, and desires. She has also kept Beuys’ feathers, images, objects, and documents, and turned to science to learn how parrots see, hear, and navigate the world. Yet the more she knows about Beuys, the more aware she becomes of what she cannot know: what the world is like for Beuys. That distance extends beyond her relationship with Beuys into her wider artistic practice: when she reconstructs what is no longer there from what remains, traces histories she was never there to witness, or measures a distance exactly and still finds that the number cannot tell her what that distance means. Wantanee keeps looking anyway. She is no longer only asking what she can know, but what makes her think she has received an answer. What makes something an answer, and who decides? And if there is no reply, how does she know that what she calls silence is silence at all?
𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂
SCHEDULE
Talk (60min)
Q&A (30min)
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𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂𓅂
SPEAKER BIO
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul is a Thai contemporary artist working across video, installation, sculpture, sound, and text. Her practice moves between inquiries into economic and political structures and questions of perception that extend beyond human experience. These concerns coexist within her practice, intersecting or remaining distinct depending on the conditions of each project. Her long-standing engagement with inequality, systems of value, and ideological structures often begins with particular political or economic conditions. Alongside this, her shared life with Beuys, an African grey parrot she has lived with since 2013, has gradually altered the way she approaches questions of perception and position, leading to broader investigations of how other species perceive and orient themselves within worlds that humans can never fully access.