in collaboration with Jong PAIREZ, including contributions from BORROWMAN, Warit BURANAPATTAMA, Deun CHONGMANKHONG, Kamolaka JITTARUTTHA, Oat Sankrit KULMANOCHAWONG, Nawin NUTHONG, School of Improper Education, Keiki SEI, Chulayarnnon SIRIPHOL, Op SUDASNA, Nicha WACHPANICH, Brian WICE, et al.
commissioned by Judha SU for To Whom it May Concern, Bangkok City City Gallery
In the Thai language, the phoneme ‘HED’ can mean ‘เห็ด mushroom’, but in the northeastern Isan dialect it can also mean ‘เฮ็ด do’. The name #radioHED thus came about as the result of a ‘doing together’, whereby a workshop on independent radio production led to a ‘contaminated collaboration’ as inspired by readings from anthropologist Anna LOWENHAUPT-TSING’s The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. For the one-month span of the group exhibition To Whom it May Concern, a softly-enclosed pavilion housed the self-organised radio station, hosting shows from workshop participants, other artists as well as casual visitors interested in impromptu broadcasts of their own music, talks and sound experiments.
