ASJC Reading List is an online reading group that invites participants to read and study texts discovered during the research process of exhibition preparation. As part of the preliminary research program for Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition(working title), scheduled to open in July 2027, this reading list will be held over two sessions on September 10th and 17th. Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition (working title) explores the coexistence of life and death through creative instinct. Through this program, two researchers will join us to discuss Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s world—one in which the body and image, memory and forgetting, intertwine with the processes of materialization and de-materialization that vanish and yet remain as trace.

*A Zoom link will be shared via email to the Naver ID you used for registration.

■ Program overview

■ About the program

Some stories, some lights
– Dates: Thu, September 10, 2026, 19:00–20:30
– Speaker: May Adadol Ingawanij (Professor of Cinematic Arts and Co-director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster)
– Description: A diary in progress on ageing with Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s film-art. Cinema got old. The artist and the cinephile lose memory. These too are elements of a shared world.
– Reading List
1) Ursula Le Guin, How It Seems to Me
2) T.J. Clark, NIght Visitors
3) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, A Conversation with the Sun part 1, in A Conversation with the Sun, Apichatpong & Bangkok CityCity Gallery, 2022.

The Entrails of Night / The Entrails of Dream
– Dates: Thu, September 17, 2026, 19:00–20:30
– Speaker: Lee Nara (Assistant Professor, Department of French, Kyung Hee University)
– Language: Korean Only
– Description: The Entrails of Night / The Entrails of Dream examines how night and dreams relate to the human or material body—through reflection, penetration, infection, inversion—across Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films, moving-image works, and installations. In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work, the body materializes images while simultaneously corroding their boundaries, de-materializing them in turn. Through concepts such as the specter that materializes even as it de-materializes, and a primitiveness that emerges belatedly, this lecture seeks to look into Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s world of “waking dreams.”
– Reading List
1) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, On the Laocoon Group, in Goethe: Essays on Art and Literature, trans. Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff (Princeton University Press, 2018 [1798]).
2) Georges Didi-Huberman, The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg’s History of Art, trans. Harvey Mendelsohn (Penn State University Press, 2017 [2002]).

■ About the speakers

May Adadol Ingawanij (Professor of Cinematic Arts and Co-director of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster)
Her writing, curatorial projects and multiform scholarship concern Southeast Asian contemporary art; artist cinema; research-based artistic and curatorial practices; de-centred histories and genealogies of cinematic arts; avant-garde legacies in Southeast Asia; forms of future-making in global majority artistic and curatorial practices. Her criticism and essays have appeared in New Left Review, Screen, Southeast of Now and Afterall, among others, and in many exhibition catalogues. Recent and ongoing curatorial projects include School for Ghost Activists Archivists (2025); To Commune (2024 -); Legacies (2022–24); and Animistic Apparatus (2019–).

Lee Nara (Assistant Professor, Department of French, Kyung Hee University)
Her research interests include the materiality of contemporary cinema, the relationship between cinema and the arts, disaster and trauma, and the genealogy of theories of the image, particularly those developed by Georges Didi-Huberman and Jacques Rancière. She has published numerous scholarly articles and critical essays on these theoretical concerns and on Korean and international art and moving-image works, and has translated several works by Georges Didi-Huberman into Korean. Her recent publications include “Chris Marker’s Minority Report: Sans Soleil and the Figure of the Child,” “The Voice of Decolonization,” and “Impossible Return and the Form of Survival: Mati Diop’s Atlantics.” She is currently a professor in the Department of French at Kyung Hee University.