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Move Forward fever grips SE Asia
News, Published on 18/06/2023
» The Move Forward Party's (MFP) triumph in the general election has sparked new hope for political change in the region, as experts expect the ascendance of an MFP-led progressive government will help shift the landscape of international relations in Southeast Asia toward a more liberal democracy.
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Information as power
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 26/01/2022
» As the exhibition's title suggests, "Xhibition In The Dark" by Chookiat Likitpunyarut showcases art installations in a dimly dark space, Chookiat, who worked as an interior designer, brand builder and design consultant in New York for almost a decade, said his first solo exhibition in Thailand is experimental art.
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The 'scene', in all its glory
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 28/12/2017
» It was a busy year for Thai theatre. Life highlights a few trends and picks the best productions of 2017
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Swings and misses
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/12/2016
» These theatre newcomers close 2016 with daring productions. Even though some of the results were uneven, their desire to make meaningful and thought-provoking art is palpable
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Self-reflective play examines universal truths
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 30/03/2017
» Sineenadh Keitprapai and Thanaphon Accawatanyu, two generations of theatre artists, share stories of their dreams, homes and growing up and older in a touching, if not entirely satisfying, collaborative performance, Young Yao (Immature: Adult And Childish Sometimes).
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The ambiguity that obscures
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 16/02/2017
» One of my favourite poets, Billy Collins, said once: "I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticise something you can understand."
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The historical made personal
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 06/10/2016
» We don't know where they are -- a man and a woman, he in a white three-piece suit, she in a white wedding gown. Soon we find out that they don't know where they are either. Then we find out who they are, but soon realise they are not sure.
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Dance of the majority
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/10/2015
» Watching Vidura Amranand dance in swirling red pants, in Teerawat Mulvilai's latest physical performance work Manoland, I was reminded of Somsong, the hysterical stepmother of Fak in Chat Kobjitti's 1985 novel Kam Pipaksa (The Judgement).
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By lens, stage and paint, truth
Life, Published on 10/12/2014
» In 2009, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit made I'm Fine Sabai Dee Ka, a three-minute satirical film/performance art piece in which she locks herself in a cage placed in front of the Democracy Monument. Passers-by (both actors and unsuspecting pedestrians) take photographs and stop to ask her what happened. She smiles and repeats the same answer: "I'm fine in here." Tanwarin, who once served as the president of the Thai Film Director Association, is a prolific filmmaker who has made independent and mainstream films. In 2010, her low-budget production, Insects In The Backyard, made headlines when it became the first film to be banned under the 2006 Film Act (censors said the film depicted inappropriate images of student prostitutes and a penis).
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Troublesome pose
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/05/2012
» One first-year Thammasat student has caused a bit of a controversy by the way she posed with the statue of the university's founder Pridi Banomyong.
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