Fahsai Chainarong is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2025 to March, 2025
Fahsai is a Thai multidisciplinary artist currently based in New Zealand. She creates performative installations blending technology and nature to explore human-microbe coexistence. Her work, evolving from planting chia seeds to plant-based sound systems, engages audiences emotionally and physically, promoting connection and comfort.
Meet the Artist
Statement
Fahsai, a multidisciplinary artist born in Natkhonrasahima, Thailand, currently studies and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She is known for creating performative installations that use technology to acknowledge the co-existence between microbes and humans.
Her previous works focused on the intersections between Nature, Humanity, and the need for connection, culminating in a time-based practice that included carefully planting chia seeds. This interest has spurred their more recent works that have taken on the technological domain, from exploring the plant-facilitated audio synthesis and creating sound systems from plant and copper that require audience participation to be active. Her venture uses a blend of technological and organic materials to push the boundaries of art and public engagement.
Fahsai aims to make her art not just seen but felt and experienced. She seeks to evoke emotional and physical reactions from participants, contributing to her artistic practice and fostering a sense of self-preservation and calming comfort by sound and space.
GlogauAIR Project
While developing the process of “ this being I must create”, a performative installation for Massey exposure 2024, an ambitious soundscape and immersive atmosphere that vibrates emotions through our physical body. However, the final result left me unsatisfied, and I kept criticising my artistic abilities. I returned to Thailand for the holidays and consulted with my sister about what troubles me. She mentions that “Śūnyatā” means emptiness or voidness in Buddhism to guide us in distinguishing between appearance and reality. To understand that reality exists in relation to other causes and conditions, like two solid objects making contact to create sound, one must know that they are not a negation of existence but rather the undifferentiation from which all apparent entities arise. Therefore, my proposal for GlogauAIR 2025 utilises soundscape to communicate a linguistic pattern that simulates vacuity, calmness, and temporalities; staging in domestic space related to where we were during our conversation that how led to this passion for developing art pieces that involve performance soundscape visualising my understanding of Śūnyatā.
CV Summary
- 2024 This being I must create- Massey Exposure 2024, Wellington, NZ
- 2024 Internal Organics- Lead curator and guest artist MEANWHILE Gallery, Wellington, NZ
- 2024 Untilted – Clear view, Massey University, Wellington, NZ
- 2024 PLANT-BASED ORCHESTRA – PARK(ing) Day 2024, Wellington, NZ
- 2024 Impermanence- Group show, Engine room, Massey University, Wellington, NZ
- 2021-2025 Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours, College of creative arts Toi rawhārangi, Wellington NZ
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