Tulapop Saenjaroen: A (Digressive) Focus, is a three part program at the e-flux Screening Room and Library, and features two screenings and a reading. It brings recent films by Tulapop Saenjaroen in dialogue with text, audio, and moving-image works by Kelley Dong, Anahita Jamali Rad, RUTMEAT, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Evan Calder Williams, Jia Zhangke, and Zheng Yuan, programmed by Steff Hui Ci Ling.

Tulapop Saenjaroen’s videos swerve around serious and whimsical subjects and moods. Just in the same way that work and leisure in this world are too close for comfort, Saenjaroen’s contemporary work subjectivities traverse a spectrum of relaxation, experimentation, and social relationships as they take on shades of self-medication, exploitation, networking, and multi-performing for the diffuse labor market. However, the videos do not depict workers working, but present work within a theater of his cinematic construction.

Part one:
Screening: On floating and eating with Kelley Dong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Anocha Suwichakornpong, and Zheng Yuan
Friday, July 1, 2022, 7pm

Part two:
Reading: Evan Calder Williams, Roman Letters with Anahita Jamali Rad and Steff Hui Ci Ling
Friday, July 1, 2022, 9pm

Part three:
Screening: On trash collectors and Michael Jackson Impersonators with RUTMEAT, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Jia Zhangke, and Zheng Yuan
Sunday, July 3, 2022, 7pm