Golden
Ship
Installation by Apichatpong
Weerasethakul
WHAT? A TALE IN FREE
IMAGES
October 5 - November 17, 2002
Memlingmuseum, Brugge, Belgium
GOLDEN
SHIP (Sampao Tong) was originally a
novel about a rich family life turns
upside down by the economic crash. In 2002,
Channel 3 Television, Thailand, made an
adaptation and turned it into a television
show. Then another company re-adapted a
television script and published a “TV
Novel” or a “TV Magazine”.
Apichatpong
reintroduces the story back from the magazine
to a moving image again, but retain the
magazine format. The video was made with non-professional
actors.
GOLDEN SHIP is the 5th work in the series
of Haunted Houses Project that Apichatpong
deals with media addiction in Thailand. Most
of the works involve television viewers or
radio listeners to participate in their own
media production.
The works focus on the narrative reproduction,
exploitation, and impersonation in various
forms.
