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2:00 PM-7:00 PM

Girls gotta do what girls do?

Interactive salon | Dealing in Distance|By Sarnt Utamachote (TH), Krisanta Caguioa-Mönnich (PH/DE) and local collaborators

Dealing in Distance: Girls do what they got to do © Artschoolnow Salon, Dan Ni, Jaykim, Nguyễn Đình Chiến

This touring interactive performance, inspired by Tanya Villanueva/collective Artschoolnow Salon (based in Quezon City), is a form of research: of engaging with local audiences on the topic of gender, queerness, labor and migration. Each collaborator in each city will offer service associated with their hobby or interests, while Sarnt Utamachote, the researcher, will offer anyone a xxxxxxxxxxxx. The photographs and letters written during this tour will be exhibited as Sarnt’s final exhibition in Manila. 

About the Artists

  • Sarnt Utamachote

    Sarnt Utamachote is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator based in Berlin (Germany). They are co-founder of un.thai.tled collective, platform for Thai diasporic artists based in Germany. They are also a part of the Cruising Curators collective. Their recent curatorial projectYoung Birds From Strange Mountainsat Schwules Museum Berlin (2025) focuses on queer artists and archives from Southeast Asia and its diaspora. Their research about exiled Cambodian artists in East Germany was featured at D21 Leipzig, MDBK Leipzig, Echoes of the Brother Countries (2024) at HKW Berlin, and at Kunst Raum Mitte Berlin. Their recent short filmI don’t want to be just a memory(2022–24) had its premiere at 74th Berlinale Forum Expanded.

    This installation represents their ongoing projectIn Nobody’s Servicewhich took place already at Galerie Wedding Berlin (2024), and Thailand Biennale in Phuket (2025).

  • Krisanta Caguioa-Mönnich

    Krisanta Caguioa-Mönnich, a single working mother, originally comes from the Philippines. After studying and working in the furniture, architecture, and interior design industry in the Philippines, she has been involved for the past eight years in the social sector. Krisanta is a language and cultural mediator (currently on sabbatical leave) at Ban Ying (Thai for “House of woman”) Counselling and Coordination Center and Shelter against Human Trafficking. Being also a freelance artist, she has been able to overcome her personal and professional coping difficulties being a migrant woman and working for migrant women*, who have experienced exploitation, violence, or human trafficking. Against the background of her own migration stories, she interprets and transforms the observable ways in which the women* deal with their migration experiences in paintings/artworks. The women* are included in the artistic creative process through photos and talks with them

Related links

Dealing in Distance Project Page