Meet the Tapper: Latex Time and the Act of Remembering
Jitivi Banthaisong
2020
“Five years have passed. The last conversation we had was about my job in the city, routine though it was, which I had just recently started. You told me what happened at the studio, about how everyone was busy with the new project, and that we should see each other again soon. I go back and read through our chats when I miss you. I read them with your voice. It is both warm and safe at the same time.”
The stories of rubber-tapping, film archives from Sumatra to Amsterdam, a plantation along the coastline of Thailand, a tunnel, a park at sunset, and a personal experience that are buried under the memory, while each tells its own unique story, they all share one commonality: a dream.
This threshold between waking and sleeping weaves these stories together.