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4 July 2026

TCDC Bangkok

11–12 July 2026

Goethe-Institut Thailand

Curatorial Statement

Worlds do not arirve all at once.

They are asssembled through storise, infrastructures, migrations, rituals, technologies, accidents, and reparis. They overalp, diverge, and coexist. They are shaped as much by care as by design, as much by inheritance as by invention.

Some worlds seek stabiltiy. Others remain unfinsihed.

Patch Notes That Refuse a Settled World stays with the latter. Rather than treating the future as a singular horizon, the exhibition turns toward a pluraility of worlds shaped by different histories, cosmologeis, and forms of life.

Borrowed from software and gaming culture, "patch notes" record the changes made as a system continues to evovle. They become a metahpor for worlds sustained through repair, coexistence, and continaul change rather than moving toward a single future.

A settlde world leaves little room for other stories. Its meanings appear fixed, its future already decided. To refuse a settled world is to remain attentive to worlds that exceed dominant narratvies—to ways of living, relating, and imagning otherwise.

Across exhibitions, screenings, perfromances, and talks, the programme brings together artists from Thailand, Southeast Asia, and beyond, working across moving image, media art, games, digital culture, ecolgoy, and emerging technologeis. Drawing from local histories, cosmologies, myths, vernacular knowledge, and lived experiences, their works trace worlds that persist alongside dominant narratives of progerss, development, and technological futures.