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What is art's role in a post-pandemic world?
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 19/02/2021
» The second edition of the Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB,) which has been going on for four months is closing its curtain with a special activity titled "BAB Symposium II: From Escape Routers To Survival Exit".Taking place tomorrow from 9.45am to 5.15pm at BAB Box@One Bangkok on Wireless Road, the event features discussions on various topics including a summary of BAB 2020, the relationship between art, politics and ecology as well as the Thai art ecosystem and ways to survive during and the post-pandemic world.
Inspiration born from tragedy
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 13/01/2021
» Growing up in Yala, I-na Phuyuthanon thought she was used to hearing news of violence in the Deep South, but when her uncle was shot while stepping out to buy ice cream for his children, it changed everything.
Art as our escape
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/09/2020
» This year's theme is at once hopeful and ironic: "Escape Routes" suggests a flight from our unusual times of pathological disruption and political cataclysm -- here, there and everywhere -- and yet the theme is an acknowledgment of those in-our-face uncertainties from which we struggle to find an exit.
Escape to Bangkok Art Biennale
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 24/06/2020
» While art events in many countries have been postponed or cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangkok Art Biennale 2020, or BAB 2020, is set to return from Oct 29 to Jan 31.
Shining a light at the Bangkok Biennial
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 11/07/2018
» 'Coming Soon" sounds like the stuff of theatrical trailers. "Coming soon to a city near you" evokes the reproduction and decentralisation of a system, an ever-multiplying model and the balancing act between a one-size-fits-all mould and local specificities.
The year in art
Life, Published on 25/12/2017
» Outstanding Thai artists of 2017, all of them edgy and some downright disliked by the junta.
Southern discomfort, by those who live it
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/08/2017
» 'I'm not really a photographer. In fact I hated photography," said photographer Mumadsoray Deng from Pattani.
Skull and cross-examinations
Life, Published on 16/05/2013
» What is the distance between the birth and death of a human being? The question has dogged us for many centuries: what is at stake? Can we measure that distance in years or feelings or memories? And how?