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Submission Number: 229
Submission ID: 288
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Created: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 - 14:07
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Submitted by: Papattaranan Kunphunsup
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Tistou’s Tea Party Preparation: An Artistic Inquiry into Material Transformation and Internal Growth
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Tistou's Tea Party is a symbolic intervention which is taking place during the Gallery Bangsaen Festival (March 6-15, 2026). During the intervention, participants will be invited to write down their grievances, then process the paper into a collective sculpture. After ten days, the art will be dismantled and converted into RDF. It’s a recurring ritual: whenever negative emotions pile up, we can transform them into art, and eventually, into energy. This exposition details the preparation phase — testing the feasibility of the symbolic act, refining it, and observing its effects through self-experimentation. The method of study is practice-as-research. Data collection involves intermittent photography and field notes. I found that it is possible to shred the papers, soak in hot water, blend into pulp, and mix with tapioca starch, joint compound, water, food color, and scent (if desire). The processed paper pulp, which feels like very thick cream soup, can be squeezed on nylon mosquito net to evoke the feeling of a flowering tree. During the whole experiment, I also experienced a profound sense of “Quirky Euphoria” and a sense of agency, that it is possible to process my negative emotions into a creative act.
- Papattaranan (Pla) Kunphunsup holds a PhD in Visual Arts and Design from Burapha University, an MA in Communication Arts from New York Institute of Technology, and a B. Arch in Architecture from Chulalongkorn University. Currently, she is a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Burapha University. She works in the form of academic research, articles, drawings, graphic design projects, animation, and short documentary films. Her interdisciplinary practice explores grief, memory, and creative self-disclosure through participatory and post-studio approaches. She focuses on artmaking as a form of agency, especially under social, emotional, or material constraint.
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If selected, the presentation will feature the Documentary Film captured during the festival, accompanied by an exhibition of Material Specimens resulting from the research experiments.
The full public sculpture can be reconstruct within 2 x 2 square metres.
However, if the space is limited, I can bring just some part of the specimens for display.
For the documentary film, a tv screen and a headphone would be required.
However, if the space is limited, I can bring just some part of the specimens for display.
For the documentary film, a tv screen and a headphone would be required.
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Papattaranan Kunphunsup