Korakrit Arunanondchai (1986-) creates artwork that crosses the boundaries of painting, installation, performance, and video, through which he raises fundamental questions on the existential concepts of life and death by mixing personal experiences and historical events, and everyday scenes and spiritual and shamanistic fiction. Songs for Dying was based on the artist’s experience of “the death of a grandfather”. The video follows the process of the grandfather's funeral, from the moment of passing to the funeral, preparing the body for burial, mourning, cremation, and casting the ashes sea. The artist exchanges a final moment with his grandfather by holding his hands and singing a song that his grandfather liked. Serves as a medium that connects the personal narrative to historical events concerning death and the process of death. Such events include the anti-government democratic protests against the Thai junta, which came into power by means of coup d’état, and the Jeju uprising. The artist alternates between images of the memorial service for the victims of the Jeju uprising, his grandfather's funeral, and the face of a shaman singing for a dying turtle. He links narratives that are not directly causally related at a spiritual level. Through this process, he discusses the communalism of the body and soul, and the masses, and he discusses the division of nationalistic ideologies. He speaks of the cosmic origins and existential chains.