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Chaos theory
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 15/06/2016
» In a lot of cases, one way of looking at an exhibition is as a site where chaos -- ideas, emotions, imagination, truths, etc -- is sorted out and made sense of through a curatorial process.
Bird on a wire
Muse, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/01/2016
» Kawita Vatanajyankur feels like an outsider wherever she is. In Melbourne, where the 28-year-old artist spent a decade through high school and university, it wasn’t really home. Back in Bangkok for four years now, and she doesn’t feel Thai, either. Who she is as an artist and the person she is as she sits down for an interview are equally in a state of flux.
A rather fruity affair
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/12/2015
» The second edition of Wonderfruit, a four-day festival of arts, ended late last weekend. And now there's already a common saying: "You have to be rich to get drunk at Wonderfruit."
Worlds apart
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/06/2015
» A church turned into a mosque, and later shut down. A bottle of tequila and a wood-carved Christ hung on a windowpane. A pink pool brimming at neck level, threatening to flood over. And, of course, a massive yellow phallus named after Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona.
Questions of faith
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/07/2013
» In many ways, religious beliefs and subscriptions of faith in Thailand are enigmatic and inexplicable. This is a "Buddhist" country, and yet many people's beliefs are closely associated with the elements of folklore, from spirits to ghosts and other brands of superstition. Hindu gods, Chinese goddesses, Brahmin rites and pagan shrines are interweaved spiritually _ sometimes commercially _ with sacred amulets and guru monks (how else could the scandalous Luang Pu Nen Kham manage to do what he did?). Lord Buddha's teachings of self-reliance are held high, but there is always room for supplementary faiths to help Thais get through each difficult day.