Das Pralung (Rousing Spirits) II is ongoing project that Khvay Samnang focus on rituals and beliefs to do with both human and non-human aspects of nature, as well as the supernatural, animism, and the political and geographical environment as well as global social and political confusion and wars. These factors are having serious impacts on global climate change. These ongoing works present a single-channel video, two brass objects and other two sculptures made from recycled car rims. For Das Pralung (Rousing Spirits) I, Samnang used his own body to perform, for the first time in more than ten years. He spent several hours a day, over the course of three days, under the hot sun. Sitting on a rattan chair, he is seen pounding and pounding on a brass object to create a vibrating sound. This rousing noise resonates through great forests— sites of abundant natural resources and rare wildlife—in Koh Kong province and at Koh Kong Krao​ island in Southern Cambodia, as well as on several small islands along the Mekong River in Northern Cambodia. 

For this ongoing video, he uses his own body to perform in Phnom Penh city. He beats on two brass objects, he wanted to bring the pralung (spirits) from the forest to the city and he also wanted to awaken the city spirits and rouse them into action as well, because the earth is in such a state of emergency. Brass material has been casted for bullet and Gong (musical instruments) originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Gong has been used during religious ceremonies or rituals. The visitors will see the abstract new landscape with new vibrating sound of beating, sound of fire, sound of animals, and imagination sound of gunfire and sonic boom in the video. 

And other two sculptures made from recycled car rims, Samnang travelled around Phnom Penh city and Kandal province during dry season, he saw a lot of land in the earth have been very dry from the hot sun. The hot weather is different from previous years, it turns hotter and hotter every year. Samnang wanted to cast the dry land from the hot climate and see how the earth turns to the sculpture with three dimensions. 

_Chum Chanveasna