Awakening Chiang Mai 2023: all installations

By Makelenwork x COTH

📍Ratchawong Warehouse

Chang Moi is Chiang Mai’s old quarter that has been slowly revived, getting back on the rising track. It’s warm, fun, and friendly — exactly what ‘friends’ are for — and what ALTERING +5 is trying to reflect. Inspired by Chang’s campaign that celebrates music and friendship, music-sensitive lighting projecting all over reflective surfaces aims to represent the atmosphere when friends are around: the more, the better — especially with music.

Khopfa Chanpensri

📍Chang Moi Community

Khopfa Chanpensri returns with an updated version of ​​BIO*LUMINESCENCE. This one creates awareness for sustainability through illuminated butterflies flying towards a biosphere, spreading the pollen of sustainability.

​​John Mutter

📍MITTE MITTE

Just เต้น (Just Dance) is an interactive dance piece that seamlessly integrates audience members into the installation. Inspired by Chiang Mai's art community's dedication to community building, this piece encourages passersby to 'dance,' using their bodies to control 3D models within audio-reactive environments. The installation not only fosters community engagement but also offers a unique outlet for emotional expression and stress relief through dance and technology.

tomorrow.Lab

📍Tai Toon Baan 

Tomorrow.Lab collective drew inspiration from the worshipping ritual at Chiang Mai City Pillar, where locals offer flowers to wish for good fortune for themselves and their families. They interpreted this tradition, juxtaposed with the 2000s game Plumbob, into an interactive art piece that visualizes your spoken words as virtual flowers. The creator hopes this artwork will metaphorically spread flowers throughout the city, symbolizing positivity and good wishes.

Le Soleil 

📍Wat Chompoo

​Human - Dreams - Cities are three inseparable elements. Humans dream. They dream of creating cities. And cities thrive civilizations. This ambition is natural to all humans. It’s the driving legacy that goes down from one generation to another, and drives many of our actions before we even realize it.

อภินันทญาติ์ บัวเอี่ยม และ ดรัสวัส วัฒนโรจนานิกร

📍Wat Chompoo

Take a break from it all at this serene spot, where you can sit, breathe, relax, and contemplate to achieve ‘Sa-Ti’ (consciousness) – something we all need, yet often lack in our busy lives. In the midst of today’s chaos, practicing mindfulness is essential. By being conscious and aware, we can cultivate wisdom to navigate life's challenges.

KIMBAB:)

📍Brewginning

The energy and liveliness of the Northern folks have been interpreted into this interactive digital mapping that moves with your gestures.

CHAL

📍Mathana Building

The timeless patterns woven into the Lanna (Northern culture) wickerwork have been reinterpreted into a floating lightbox that shines and projects visualized shadows onto surfaces. Looming Light not only celebrates local art but also signifies how we can bridge the past and the present, igniting many ideas to sustain it for the future.

Kittithat L. 

📍Mathana Building

Witness the 'Resonance of Frequency' of various noises and sounds in Chiang Mai, visualized using computer graphics and amplified with music. Step in and feel how the noise resonates when it lands upon other objects.

ZonZon.Ztudio

📍Mathana Building

In science, your pulse can reveal your emotions—whether you're feeling happy, sad, angry, or excited. This interactive projection mapping takes it a step further by transforming your pulse into shapes and colors, allowing you to see, and perhaps understand, your emotions more clearly.

BOB the nice guy

📍Mathana Building

The fun character BOB the nice guy, makes its debut in the North in the form of a touchable lighting installation called BOB wanna glow.

Wave Pongruengkiat

📍Maplewood

The long-life ceremony (สืบชะตา) is a Northern ritual aimed at blessing a long and blissful life. In essence, it attempts to influence destiny through ceremonies and offerings. The artist reinterprets this ritual, incorporating its distinctive arrangements, into a lighting piece. This artwork showcases the effort to transform the rigid into the fluid and the stable into the dynamic—all within the framework of the flow of time. Visitors are encouraged to place the ceremonial thread on their heads, allowing them to reconnect with the original ritual, albeit through a different medium.

Krai Sridee

📍Chiang Mai Building, Soi Kampaeng Din

Vacant commercial buildings represent the "vacuum space" left behind after capital departs, inaccessible to people. A Room Filled with Emptiness uses sound to delve into these voids. Visitors not only hear echoes but also witness them transformed into visual light forms.

ZonZon.Ztudio

📍Rong Leuy Tha Pae

A Reflection of Nature aims to raise awareness about nature preservation and how our actions, big or small, impact the environment. Metaphorically, the activities conducted in the pond will be mirrored on the wall, emphasizing the direct connection between human actions and their environmental consequences.

CHAL

📍Tha Pae Building (behind Ploen Ruedee Market) 

This piece utilizes visual illusions of facial expressions to immerse you in an infinite space, sparking curiosity and inspiring future cultural possibilities.

Peeranut Pimdee (P-NUT)

📍Ploenruedee Market parking space

Pillars of light glow in the dark, visualizing the spectrum and Aurora Polaris which symbolize the rise of the Rose of the North.

CHAL

📍Kiti Panit

Talaew," which means "hawk's eye" in the Northern dialect, is a symbol of local ritual for protected areas. It has also been used to safeguard wherever it hangs from disasters. This art show drew inspiration from Talaew Moryam, deconstructing it and presenting it differently in light form. It invites you to immerse yourself, feeling protected through the eyes and the mind.