Intermission

In Thailand, time seems to be suspended in a state of stagnancy, where linearity has been misplaced and the present moment is elusive. The country's monarchy regime, characterised by military rule and hierarchical capitalism, has imposed a state-enforced narrative that treats the national history as a haunting past. Coups d'état have repeatedly disrupted the country's trajectory of time, transiting Thailand in the retrograde of beguiled futurity.

INTERMISSION is a dance series that imagines a postmodern dance scene in Thailand that does not yet exist. Taking its name from the pause period of a conventional show, INTERMISSION challenges time conformity and envisions a new way of experiencing time through dance. What if a temporary pause becomes a continual temporality? What if an interval period of a show becomes an intervention in the flow of time itself?

accumulation | əˌkjuːmjʊˈleɪʃn | noun [mass noun] the acquisition or gradual gathering of something: the accumulation of wealth • [count noun] a mass or quantity of something that has gradually gathered or been acquired: the accumulation of paperwork on her desk

ORIGIN late 15th century: from Latin accumulat- ‘heaped up’, from the verb accumulare, from ad- ‘to’ + cumulus