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I Have Something to Tell You, 2019, Mixed media, Dimensions variable  

Tentacles

I Have Something to Tell You

❑ organization history

Tentacle is a not-for-profit organization based in Thai since 2014. Tentacle provides avant-garde, experimental artists with regular exhibitions and with platform on which they can focus on their practices. Tentacle also hosts seminars, artist talks, and other events through artist-in-residence program for artists and curators who wants to develop exchange project with local society. It also provides places where artists and curators can exchange ideas and interact with each other by organizing cultural exchange programs with partner institutions abroad. Tentacle has grown to expand the range of their activities as they start Artist-in-Residence Program since 2015, N22 Workshop, Tentacle TV, etc.

❑ art work and program introduction

Tentacles from Thai presents in 2019 Sea Art Festival is I Have Something to Tell You (2019) that appropriates mechanism of string phone into structure that shaped string phone cut in half. Through this installation, Tentacles listens to the message the sea sends us and raise the understanding and awareness of the phenomena taking place in the sea by organizing ten-day activities within the structure. This 7.5m wide by 5.15m high and 7.35m deep structure is shaped to gradually be reduced in size towards the back and had reed finishing on the outside. There are small holes on the wall located close to the sea through which people can go in and out of the structure. If this structure takes after the shape of string phone, the people go in and out of the structure would corresponds to ‘string’ that plays a role of delivering messages. Tentacles have another objective in mind. Tentacles would like to connect the sea and human on a different dimension through ‘consumption.’ What they choose as the most mundane way of consumption for us is ‘food.’ Participants of the workshop will be invited to cook Thai using deep seawater and to eat with Thais living in Busan. It is a way we can experience we are more connected with the sea than we think. In addition, singing class will be added to its activity list. While learning together to sing Thai songs and meaning behind them, Tentacles would like to create earnest dialogues between the men and the sea, Busan and Thai.