Project Space – Pha Tad Ke

Poiesis: The City and the Forest

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“The City and the Forest” offers a poetic mediation on Lao landscape ranging from glorification of nature to the critique of urban alienation.

1. Excerpt from Kap Muang Phuan (Poem of the Phuan Country)

Written almost a decade after Phun Viang, Kap Muang Phuan (Poem of the Phuan Country) tells a sorrowful episode of the forced relocation of the Phuan ethnic group in northern Laos to Siam following the Vietnamese invasions from 1834-1836.

2. Excerpt from Khang Khuen Nai Pha Leuk

3. Excerpt from Nong Phiphet

4. Excerpt from Phun Viang (The Chronicle of Vientiane)

Phun Viang (The Chronicle of Vientiane) recounts the revolt of Chao Anou against the Siamese government in 1826.

5. Excerpts from Song Eauy Nong