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Queering the pitch, deliberately
Life, Brian Curtin, Published on 18/10/2012
» The US academic Rosalind Morris once praised a book on Thai studies by noting that "it offers a relentless repudiation of those saccharine tropes through which Thailand has mainly been read". This is a rousing comment and one that suggests great critical insight on behalf of the volume in question. But, taken by itself, we might wonder why those saccharine tropes were used in the first instance. Why would Thai studies employ sweetened ways of thinking about this country?
Regarding Chitti
Life, Brian Curtin, Published on 02/05/2012
» A history of the experimental art scenes in Bangkok has yet to be written. If it's a book, the work of Chitti Kasemkitvatana deserves a chapter. Active as a curator, artist and lecturer in the '90s, Chitti set precedents that survived his eight year hiatus as a monk in the forest monasteries of Chiang Mai. Since 2010 he has held regular exhibitions of beautifully arranged objects that blur distinctions between art and practical function, organised public lecture programmes and become involved in publishing.