Happy New Love Year
1997
Kosit Juntaratip
Navin Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

Chiang Mai based provocative performance artist Kosit Juntaratip used the Navin Gallery Bangkok as a love mobile to transport him and his wife Lily Ovary to the Golden Jubilee Art Exhibition in Bangkok. Having formally married her on Valentine’s Day the year before in Chiang Mai, Lily (an inflatable sex-aid doll) and Kosit were filmed romantically being driven around the city on their 2nd anniversary. A Thai style Happy New Love Year calendar with images of the happy couple taken inside the Taxi Gallery were given out as gifts to travellers, who were asked to document their impressions of the event on a video recorder.