An Evening with Tulapop Saenjaroen

In lieu of the exhibition “Cinematic Involutions” at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts AUX: Intermedia Gallery (October 16–December 22, 2025), featuring the works of Simon Liu, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Yuyan Wang.

“An Evening and Film Program with Tulapop Saenjaroen” follows the questions percolating from the exhibition “Cinematic Involutions”: How can we respond to the deluge of images in the age of AI?

This event 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 a closing/ancillary event of the exhibition, the evening will further situate Saenjaroen’s artistic and curatorial practice through a film programme and post-screening audience discussion.

Saenjaroen has curated an original film programme “Herein, Out of Range” (description below) for this event, as a natural extension of his ongoing curatorial practice in Bangkok with the collective ELSE. 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 distinct from their own.

Herein, Out of Range  

“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