Presented by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY

Tinted in light blue, the 12-minute video includes footage fragments of some renowned Thai and international painters in actions (for instance Thawan Duchanee, Chalermchai Kositpipat, Julian Schnabel, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Pablo Picasso) along with the clips of Arunanondchai’s interviewing the head of the discipline department of Bangkok Christian College, who publicly beat him up as a punishment while he was a middle school student. Echoing the denim in his paintings, the artist relates the rise of denim culture with the importation and appropriation of western culture which affects the contemporaneity of his homeland. The “men with funny names” in the titles refers to the act of othering and exorcizing that Western Culture engages. The video tries to put in perspective that from the outside looking in or vice versa, everyone’s name is a funny name especially all the Male painters of the 20th century that have to take own the authorship of their own name and perform their identify through it.