Look How Thai I Can Thai,

Look How Ethnic I Can Ethnic

2025 / Madison, WI

Gelsy Verna Gallery / Performance

Look How Thai I Can Thai, Look How Ethnic I Can Ethnic is a 3 hours durational performance conducted in the Gelsy Verna Gallery glass case. The piece explores ideas of legibility and erasure for a Thai immigrant artist, in relation to the commodification of Thainess and what it means to create work as a Thai person in a white institution.

The Gelsy Verna glass case was created to memorialize a beloved UW-Madison faculty, Professor Gelsy Verna, whose works explore racial stereotyping.