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  • LIFE

    Going at it alone

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/03/2015

    » Last year, as part of Thonglor Art Space's "The Other Room: Exploring The Other's Life" in which more than 20 visual and performing artists participated, dance artist Vidura Amranand, dressed in a negligee, invited the audience into a bedroom-like set and delivered a short session of fetishist, dance-like hand and body movements. In Saifah Tanthana's The Last Schomburk's Deer, which also played last year, she moved sensually onstage with actor Wachara Kanha in a tug-of-war of sex and power.   

  • LIFE

    The biggest opera in history

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/05/2015

    » Thai-American author and composer Somtow Sucharitkul's opera The Silent Prince (Temiya Jataka) premiered in Houston five years ago to rave reviews. Last year, his restructured Mahajanaka Symphony, built on the success of his ballet-opera Suriyothai, was met with equal success. So with two down and another eight tales from the epic cycle of the Dasjati Jatakas (Ten Lives Of The Buddha) to go, Somtow's ballet-opera Bhuridat (The Dragon Lord), opening tomorrow at Thailand Cultural Centre, marks the third and the beginning of a five-year project to create and stage all episodes.

  • LIFE

    A play with the audience

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/12/2015

    » In the painting The Treachery Of Images by surrealist René Magritte, there is the text, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". But in a new performance by B-Floor's co-artistic director Jarunun Phantachat, she calls it Ceci N'est Pas La Politique (This Is Not Politics). This may well be a treacherous title too, considering how politically outspoken B-Floor has been, with Manoland by Teerawat Mulvilai in October and other performances over the year.

  • LIFE

    Rock of ages

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/09/2016

    » In 1992, Moderndog as students went onstage in The Coke Music Award with the sole intention of messing things around -- it was at the time a relatively sombre affair with a lot of bands opting for jazz. "It was the only chance we had to make loud noise in the Chulalongkorn University Auditorium," said the band's lead singer Thanachai Ujjin in a recent interview with Life.

  • LIFE

    Picture of a genius

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/11/2015

    » 'He was nothing else but just a painter," said Pablo Picasso's grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso. It was only when Picasso died, in 1973, that he started to realise how important his grandfather was, not just to the art scene, but to the world.

  • OPINION

    Edgy film gets axe but soap rapes go on

    News, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/11/2016

    » It is with a frustratingly slow pace that Motel Mist, SEA Write Award-winner Prabda Yoon's debut feature film, starts off and it remains slow until much later on in the film.

  • LIFE

    Butterflies and solitude

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/05/2015

    » The opening of 100 Tonson Gallery's "Chatchai Puipia: Sites Of Solitude. Still-Life, Self-Portraiture, And The Living Archive" last month seemed to have been an unmissable event for every prominent figure in the Bangkok art scene, except for Chatchai himself. It's not that there was something urgent he had to attend to; he had no intention of going, not when the show was being set up, nor when it was running.

  • LIFE

    Picture the words

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/06/2016

    » What's not to like about director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit's debut solo exhibition "I Write You A Lot", which just opened last weekend at Bangkok Citycity Gallery?

  • LIFE

    Art to float your boat

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/08/2016

    » A watermelon is in the centre of the screen, and we watch it being gradually squeezed as two pairs of hands continuously put rubber bands around it. On another screen, a woman is in the middle of nowhere and suddenly takes out a toaster before hurling it away with all her strength like a hammer throw.

  • LIFE

    Reframing masters

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/04/2016

    » As if the collection of Southeast Asian modern art at the recently opened National Gallery Singapore wasn't overwhelmingly impressive enough, the gallery has recently launched yet another show which, and this is no overstatement, is in itself worth making a trip to the Lion City.

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