~ apo(r)etic narratives ~
An incident occurred - everyone saw it differently.
But it was narrated a certain way, several times.
Some voices never made it into the narrative. Some never spoke.
The story was told, everyone’s frame of reference discordant.
But one made its way to history - the others no more than superfluous myth.
No truth is telling.
An event was formed. Perhaps many events were forming,
many yet to form but one gained momentum.
The others either ignored or appropriated to suite the acknowledged event.
Evidence was collected - handpicked.
The others stayed anecdotal - ephemeral, uncollected, uncorroborated.
Governmentality acknowledged the desires of suited citizens only. Organized development.
Governments changed - desirability shifted. The state remained the same.
A policy is implemented. Perhaps many studies were conducted,
many versions were drafted, many amended - but one was implemented.
Something was discarded from a draft.
The one that was implemented only represented so much, resolved even less.
The rest were left behind to be corrected by policy.
~ publications ~
the cave
co-writter for chapter in book ‘Can, Cannot, and Other Options: Between Defiance and Desire, Towards Fuller Lives’
Edited by Wayne WJ. Lim & Soh Kay Min
Published in 2021
https://awkndaffr.onuniverse.com/ccooSummary by editors: “Departing from their usual mediums of practice, Pitchaya and Vinita transform an exercise in collective remembrance into a multi-narrative work of auto-fictive storytelling, in which the banal is made fantastical through a series of micro-stories interwoven with an intimate conversation with their former ‘cave-mates’ Areumnari Ee, Dina A. Mohamed, and Duruo Wang. Recollecting their co-living experience together, The Cave is an account of a shared praxis of commoning and queer living, which affirms the intensely moving, tender, messy, and transformative process of empowerment that arises from the navigation of sharedness amongst strangers and friends, amidst unstable landscapes and inhospitable conditions.”
Unsettling The Corrective:
Aporetic Maneuvers Against Policy
MA Thesis - Dutch Art Institute (2019)
Thesis Supervisor: Rachel O’ ReillyThis thesis investigates lived and plural modes of knowledge produced and performed about global capital and foreign investment at the peripheries of a major urban metropolis, Mumbai, India - specifically in fishing and agricultural communities. By weaving in songs and speeches (uttered in Hindi and Marathi), I elaborate on anti-capitalist resistances to bring to the forefront aporetic maneuvers employed by grassroots resistances to disrupt processes of enforcing policies explicitly framed for displacement and impoverishment.