AN EVENING WITH TULAPOP SAENJAROEN, ANDREW YONG HOON LEE AND THUY-HAN NGUYEN-CHI

Join us for a Film Program guest curated by Cinematic Involutions exhibition artist Tulapop Saenjaroen with performative screening by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee. Following their screenings, the artists will be in conversation with Filmmaker and AFVS PhD Candidate, Kendra McLaughlin.  

Thursday, November 20, 2025 

Theater, Lower Level 
6:00–7:30 pm, Film Program 
7:30–8:00 pm, Q&A 

This event is supported by the Harvard Thai Studies Program and Harvard Asia Center Southeast Asia Initiative. Additionally, the Carpenter Center will be open late, from 5pm-9pm, on the last Thursday of the month as a part of ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).

Performative Screening: The sanguineous surge in the belly of the sky?, 2025 

A performative screening by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi with Jade Barget, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, and Fabian Saul. 

Exploring the intersection of cinema, text, and sound through an assemblage of found footage, the artists map out our entanglements with elemental media, such as the skies and their celestial bodies––the carriers of information since time immemorial. Gazing skywards and subterraneously, we will be thinking of ways of seeing and being when tangled in weather and planetary motions. We will pay particular attention to vision caught in clouds, fog, or mist—compromised ways of seeing, asking for uncertain ways of sensing. 

This performative screening is the first of three chapters which will continue at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva and the Migros Museum in Zürich. 

Film Program: Herein, Out of Range

This program builds off the two Saenjaroen works included in the exhibition, Squish! (2021) and Notes from the Periphery (2021), in which the self-justifying logics of late-stage capitalism are momentarily arrested through his excavations of Thai Animation History and the liminal spaces of Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri. Conceived as an ancillary event of the exhibition, the evening will further situate Saenjaroen’s artistic and curatorial practice through a film program and post-screening audience discussion. 

Saenjaroen has curated an original film program “Herein, Out of Range” for this event, as a natural extension of his ongoing film-programming practice in Bangkok. The program directs viewers of Tulapop’s work to glimpse at the broader, circuitous nature of image-making, in which multi-hyphenate practitioners like Tulapop are actively engaged in the production and curation of works seemingly separate from their own. 

“Herein, Out of Range” presents a series of sound and moving image works that articulate an embedded mental topology beneath the perceptible operations of the machine. These works destabilize—if not eradicate—the drawn line between the internal and the external, the unknown and the known, the imaginable and the paralysis of imagination, the explicable and the ineffable. Through symbiotic perspectives and approaches, the program seeks to dwell within a space of intersubjective animatedness, one that aspires toward an amphibious experience.  

—Tulapop Saenjaroen 

PROGRAM WORKS:

全ての傷が癒えますように May All Your Wounds Heal, Eri Saito, 5’05”, 2021

The Cyan Garden, Peng Zuqiang, 8’04”, 2022

Morning and Other Times, Ernst Karel, 30’16”, 2014

日日 Days, Tanatchai Bandasak, 3’, 2025

Bearing Fruit of Fondness, Grounds of Coherence #2, Shen Xin, 5’39”, 2025

Emanations (Cinema Mix), Tulapop Saenjaroen, 28’25”, 2025

칠실 漆室 A Dark Room, Heehyun Choi, 9’50”, 2025

Seating in the Carpenter Center is limited, and will be accommodated on a first come, first serve basis.  
 
Please email [email protected] with any questions about accessing the theater.