Songs without lyrics, 2014-2016


Political belief ideology has often been used in various political contexts and cultures to reach a targeted audience and deliver a specific political message. Music is one of the propaganda tools used to compel people to do someone's will. It is because music creates an easily recognizable and memorable method of delivery for the desired message. Nowadays, propaganda songs are open every day, but some people do not consider them threatening. For them, it is just the communication between the government to citizens.


In this project, Wantanee presents three video installations on large screens: "III" (2014), "She sings a voiceless song" (2015), and "The Conductor" (2016). The moving images of people from three social classes represent manual laborers, the middle-class, and elites. The first video features a male farmer searching for something; the second is a middle-class female hoping to survive despite a lonely fight. The third is a man posing with a commanding gesture and corresponding attire. Three different actions portray: searching, struggling, and ordering under dark light. Each tune relates to another social status under the changing chapters of Thai history.