Black Tigers! Koboi is with Jade Comfort just prior to the the showdown with Phra Rahu and Phra Hanuman at high noon, 2nd Sept 2018, Bangkok Biennale, Huai Khwang Ganesha Shrine, Din Daeng, Bangkok.
Tag: tears of the black tiger
Black Hat Thai Style
The Koboi performance for the Bangkok Biennale 2018 references Wisit Sasanatieng’s highly stylized and beautifully colourized 2007 film, Fah Talai Jone (Tears of the Black Tiger), in which the character of Dum gives the cliche of the ‘black-hat cowboy’ a Rahuesque intensity! Ultimately Cowboys and Indians: Bangkok Edition is, like Sasanatieng’s film as I understand it, a paean to almighty Buddha for his compassion.
Yoo hoo hoo hoo
I’ve been crying for your mercy
Does anyone have some mercy for me
Yoo hoo hoo hoo
From the lyrics of Mercy by Leud Prasomsap
(as translated in the subtitles of Tears of the Black Tiger DVD)
Bangkok Edition
I will perform the 2nd part of Cowboys and Indians: Bangkok Edition at 11 am on 2nd Sept 2018 at the Huai Khwang Ganesha Shrine, Din Daeng, Bangkok in the course of daily worship. My performance interprets the celestial conflict between Phra Rahu and Phra Hanuman over the sun, Suriyan. My intervention will take the form of an offering to Prha Rahu. I will engage with myth, cinema, social history and the machinations of Southeast Asian Art in terms of ethnicity, nationality, and regionalism. Please visit https://koboibalikkampung.wixsite.com/rahu/about
