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Surrounded is a performance built around generative visuals that travel across the floor beneath your feet, a spatial sound system spread throughout the venue and a specially prepared Yamaha DC3X Disklavier piano at its centre. Forget the usual stage-and-seats setupg. Here, you can sit, stand, claim your own patch of the room, stay perfectly still or wander as the work slowly unfolds.
Bangkok Kunsthalle hosts the closing night of the residency project by artist duo elekhlekha on Saturday June 27 at 8pm. Arrive from 7pm for the opening reception and a proper send-off.
Behind it are months of research-led audiovisual work from Nitcha Tothong and Kengchakaj, created with Thai traditional instrumentalists Kanta Kantaphong and Matas Masungsong, and jazz drummer Pitchaon Kanajaroen. The piece has gradually revealed itself across four participatory open studios over May and June 2026, and now reaches its conclusion with lighting design by Voratorn Peerapongpan pulling the strands together.
A sixteen-channel speaker array stretches the group across the room itself. Much like a Southeast Asian gong ensemble, the sound scatters between many voices, with melody, rhythm and agency shared among players, instruments, speakers and audience.
Tickets are B350 online or B450 on the door, available here. Places are limited and may sell out before or during door sales, so booking is the safer move.
The project is supported by Yamaha Music Thailand, which supplied the Disklavier grand piano DC3X ENPRO and professional audio equipment, with additional support from a Jerome Foundation grant.