What if basketball had been invented by Filipinas, and they still ruled the court? That’s the premise of Emperatris (Tagalog, via Spanish, for “empress”), Jenifer K Wofford’s speculative origin myth for the game.

Jakkai Siributr’s assemblages of fabrics, tchotchkes, beads, and personal memorabilia immediately prompt questions about the reasons to play with both the experiential and the iconic. Siributr grew up on the ‘spirit-filled’ streets of Bangkok, where there is an everyday animism: spirit-houses and shrines, devotional offerings of coke bottles and ornate garlands, glittering temples, and saffron-robed trees. This is one context with which to consider Siributr’s exceptional methods within contemporary art.