Live piano performance and film screening
As part of Galleries Night 2026 Alliance Française de Bangkok
In collaboration with Bangkok Art Biennale, Alliance Française and the French Embassy in Thailand.

Pianist and composer Dhorn Thaksinwarajan reinterprets the works of Maurice Ravel, performing and reacting live to Cedric Arnold's film Not T/here, while augmenting a Steinway grand piano’s sound with live audio processing.

Not T/here is an experimental documentary reflecting on time, self-narrative, mythmaking and our increasingly complex relationship with reality. The work traces a path from the present towards a speculative near future. Speaking from 2035, the narrator sifts through the footage, voice memos and cryptic notes left behind by a friend, an archivist who disappeared. Set against a world of fractured reality, environmental breakdown, and a technologically driven return to authoritarian politics, the film follows the archivist's search for traces of common histories, however imperfect, until her archive begins to bleed into the narrator's own family memories. It questions whether a future haunted by endlessly rewritten, hyper-personalized approximations of our pasts is as inevitable as it seems.

Dhorn Thaksinwarajan is a Thai pianist and improviser. Beginning his musical journey on the piano at a young age, he has since then continuously grown increasingly fond of music making, sound recording - soundscaping, and improvisation. His works are often a combined effort of various disciplines such as visual art, moving images, music, acting, and poetry in live performances.

He studied at Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music and University of Birmingham where he had received most hands-on experiences in electroacoustic music composition and audio-visuals works. He currently freelances as a composer, performer, and lecturer at various schools and universities in Bangkok, Thailand.

Cedric Arnold (UK/France) is a multi-disciplinary artist working across moving image, sound installation, photography and mixed media. After studying linguistics in Paris, he worked as a photojournalist in Europe and Asia. He combines his documentary background with experimental practices to explore themes relating to human perception of time, memory and reality. He has exhibited internationally, including Forum Groningen (2025), National Gallery, Bangkok (2022), Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (2019). He lives and works in Bangkok.