Participatory Performance | Jitr จิตร – extended gong ensemble
Programs & Events
Photos from Jitr จิตร: extended gong ensemble at DEMO2024 Closing Performance Night • WSA, Photos by Marion Aguas
elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ interrogate cultural expectations, limitations and boundaries using multimedia and technology as storytelling.
Visiting NCM from NYC for the opening weekend of Signal to Noise, join Kengchakaj and Nitcha of elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ for a live coding performance and collaborative sound making experience.
This performance invites audience participation with found objects – inspired by the missing and disappearing gong instrument – and amplifies fading Southeast Asian traditions of sound cultures. Bring your own object, or use whatever you find in your pocket, to contribute to this collaborative performance and experience community gathering & connection, a cornerstone of Southeast Asian Indigenous practices.
Jitr จิตร – the extended gong (ฆ้อง) ensemble is networked performance, collaborative sound making, and an extended branch from the artists process-oriented project, Jitr จิตร .
People
Eryk Salvaggio
Introduction
Eryk Salvaggio is a researcher and new media artist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. His work explores the creative misuse of AI and the transformation of archives into datasets for AI training: a practice designed to expose ideologies of tech and to confront the gaps between datasets and the worlds they claim to represent. A blend of hacker, researcher, designer and artist, he has been published in academic journals, spoken at music and film festivals, and consulted on tech policy at the national level. He is a researcher on AI, art and education at the metaLab (at) Harvard University, the Emerging Technology Research Advisor to the Siegel Family Endowment, and a fellow and top contributor to Tech Policy Press. He holds an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Applied Cybernetics from the Australian National University.
elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ
Performers | Artists
elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ is a collaborative research-based group consisting of artists, Kengchakaj–เก่งฉกาจ and Nitcha–ณิชชา(เฟม) , interested in subversive storytelling using sound and visual archives, researching into historical context, and using multimedia and technology to experiment and explore and define decolonized possibilities. They are currently based in Occupied Lenapehoking(Brooklyn, NYC), the unceded lands of the Lenni-Lenape and home for many Indigenous peoples past, present, and future.
elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ is a Thai word that means dispersedly, chaos, unorganized, all over the place, and non-direction to break free our practices from being labeled through a Western lens. Also, as a strategy to push the boundaries and unlearn biases created by current systems, systems that usually have defined lines, exact measurement, and borders–to break free our practices from labeling by keeping our structure fluid and non-directive and carrying expansion possibilities.
Accessibility
Seminar Room
- This program includes bright, moving visuals, and a variety of types of noise at different volumes.
- NCM is fully wheelchair accessible
- This program includes seating for all participants
- All gender and accessible toilets available on both levels
- Hearing loop available
- NCM is a high sensory space with a variety of noise and lighting.
- If you have any other access needs we can help with, please get in touch, we'd love to help
