DANIEL

ARTIST/
FILMMAKER/
EDUCATOR/

Projects


Teak & Bricks
Food as Care Cookbook
Tree of Heaven
Untitled Graduate Thesis
Pratt Public Sphere
Cannon Café (Café Bustelo)
Culinary Performances
Ox-Bow Pad Thai
LaTerre Realty Trust
On the Line

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2024 | Screening | “Teak & Bricks” at Sight/Geist, The 8th Floor

2024 | Screening | “we turn to time” at Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens College

2024 | North American Premiere | “The Nature of Dogs” at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal

2024 | Exhibition | “Cutting Room Floor” at the Ford Foundation

2024 | World Premiere | “The Nature of Dogs” at Locarno Film Festival, Pardi di Domani

2024-25 | Culinary Artist in Residence | Ox-Bow School of Art

2024 | Group Exhibition | Ways of Showing Up @ The Performing Garage

2024 | Artist in Residence | Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Guild

2024 | Resilience Thinking Walkspace Performance | Prelude in the Parks Performance Festival

2024 | I’m teaching this July! Art on the Meadow Workshops | Ox-Bow School of Art & Residency Program

2024 | Group Exhibition | Open Kitchen, Curated by Phil Zheng Cai

2024 | Researcher & Presenter | Pratt Research Open House, Brooklyn Navy Yard

2024 | Artist in Residence | Wassaic Project

2024 | Saturday Studio Workshop | Dia:Beacon

2024 | Year of the Dragon Print Daily Calendar | FAR–NEAR

2023 | Artist in Residence | Creature Conserve Residency, Governors Island, NY

2023 | Art on the Meadow Workshop | Ox-Bow School of Art & Residency Program

2023 | MFA Fine Arts Graduation | Pratt Institute

2023 | Pratt Public Sphere in the Press | Pratt.edu

2022 | Food as Resistance at La Morada | Commercial Type’s “The Food Issue”







TEAK & BRICKS



2024

Duration: 12:02
Form: Single-Channel Video
TEAK & BRICKS

“Teak & Bricks” is a project about my own identity as a Mixed-Race Thai- American – the title drawn from the hybrid materials used to build my maternal grandmother's (Thai: Yai) childhood house. Recently, I have begun methodically archiving my own history through conversations with my Yai, with topics ranging from the mundane (the best way to cook rice) to the geopolitical (French colonialism in Laos) to the personal (my great grandfather smuggling gold). As such, this work is a personal exploration of the meals, stories, and eternal care that have inspired the socially-engaged artworks that I make today. Images of my own commute to work flowing through New York harbor pair with audio of our lunchtime conversations, drawing connections between shared waterways, rematriation, and my family's migratory flows.

This work extends beyond myself into my expanded practice of video- based multimedia work that weaves my own personal history around narratives of race, politics, and the geopolitical contradictions embedded in the relationship between American Empire and the Kingdom of Thailand. Altogether, these conversations with my Yai construct a growing assemblage of time-based portraits that center my own personal narratives as seen through the lenses of family, subaltern history, and the poetics of video art.

Collaborator: Suda Sarabanchong
Exhibition: Colonial Currents, Sight/Geist Festival, The 8th Floor





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