A feast for the forgotten | Screening & live performance

​A feast for the forgotten is an evening of unexpected encounters with ancestors and strangers alike. The event features a live media performance by Youkyoung Cho (with music by Bora), accompanied by experimental films by Prapat Jiwarangsan, Natasha Tontey, and Sandra Desmazières.

Why do public gatherings so often become emotionally charged sites where grief and joy, fear and excitement surface most intensely? Conceived as a happening somewhere between a festival, a party, and a ritual, the “feast” manifests as a radical act of celebration and remembrance. It summons intergenerational memory and Asian shamanic traditions, bringing together family histories and border-crossing stories across cultures.

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Artist Bio
Youkyoung Cho is an artist working across moving images, performance, sound, and installation, exploring the intersections of real events and fictional narratives. Taking festivals and collective gatherings as starting points, she brings together people and orchestrates events, then reconfigures the music, performances, testimonies, and unexpected encounters that emerge through these processes into films and installations.

​Curator Bio

​Gladys Lou is a curator and critic with an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, where she studied Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington. Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, ArtReview, MUBI Notebook, ArtAsiaPacific, C Magazine, and Public Parking.

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​Film Program

Prapat Jiwarangsan, PARASITE FAMILY, 2022, Thailand, 5 min., Animation
“Parasite Family is a visual project made from old film negatives discovered in an out-of-business film lab. I breathe new energy into the old positive films. I accompany them on their journey from the world of analog to the world of digital, and finally to the world of AI-generated images. Thematically, these faces represent a certain family that is parasitic on Thai society. The kind of family that absorbed wealth and power. They gradually evolve into a new species of monster.” — Prapat Jiwarangsan

Sandra Desmazières, FILLE DE L’EAU (WATER GIRL), 2025, France / Netherlands / Portugal, 15 min., Animation
“Mia has spent her whole life freediving, fishing and gliding through seaweed and rocks. Time has passed, tracing its lines on her body, and shaping the landscapes around her. Loved ones have vanished. Tonight, Mia remembers.” — Sandra Desmazières

Natasha Tontey, GARDEN AMIDST THE FLAME, 2022, Full HD video, 27 min. 42 sec., Color
“Garden Amidst the Flame continues Tontey’s ongoing research into the ancient knowledge, technologies and cosmology of the Minahasa, an Indigenous nation in the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia. In this most recent work, Tontey emphasises core Minahasan cultural beliefs in the all-encompassing equilibrium between the human and non-human. Drawing on her experience of the Karai ceremony, which grants Minahasan warriors an armour of invincibility, the artist seeks to establish a queering approach towards gender, youth and ecology.” — Natasha Tontey

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Artist: Youkyoung Cho (@youkyoungcho_)
Music: Bora (@qv0vp)
Films: Prapat Jiwarangsan (@ligern_studio), Natasha Tontey (@krazykosmickid), Sandra Desmazières (@sandradesmazieres)
Costume designer: Seolkyuong Lee @eseolofficial
Curated by Gladys Lou (@gladysgoldfish)

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​Please refrain from sharing images of the video component of Cho’s work on social media (footage of the live performance is okay!).