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Bond 'roids up
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 13/02/2015
» Free calls. Free internet. For everyone. Forever. Samuel L. Jackson is Valentine — villainous internet billionaire in a sideways baseball cap with a distinct lisp, an aim to save the planet from global warming and a hot accomplice named Gazelle with large blades built into her Pistorius-style prosthetic legs — offers the world. Who could say no?
Rite and wrong
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 16/01/2015
» Theravada Buddhism is a man’s religion. Thai women have never had an official place in the faith — this is obvious in both theory and practice.
The erotic radicalism of Ren Hang
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/12/2014
» Ren Hang has been arrested while taking photographs four times in China, and a couple more abroad. Sometimes, he just receives a warning from the police and other times he's taken away in a police vehicle.
Art with the feminine touch
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 26/11/2014
» The paintings on the ground floor of Bridge Art Space at Charoen Krung are ostensibly feminine, but "Monologue" is an all-woman art show that wasn't intended. The assumption that art is feminine because it is made by female artists — Elissa Ecker, Melanie Gritzka del Villar and Aranya Khunchawattichai — comes naturally by extension.
Faces of hard truths
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 19/11/2014
» Haryatin lost her sight in Saudi Arabia. She first left Indonesia in 1998 to work as domestic help. Her first employer was kind, the second miserly and the third committed horrendous physical acts of violence against her, leaving her disabled — all of this she told journalist Karen Emmons, who has been working with photographer Steve McCurry on a project entitled "No One Should Work This Way", documenting and exposing the abuse migrant domestic workers face across Asia and the Middle East.
Replacing statistics with narratives
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 05/11/2014
» I spent my Halloween weekend shuffling between panels at the Singapore Writers Festival, listening to horror stories. I had been assigned to attend sessions on a variety of discourses, from jazz and poetry to writing about the female body. Instead, I found myself sitting front row at every session featuring Jang Jin-Sung, a North Korean defector, Loung Ung, a survivor of the Pol Pot regime, and Mukesh Kapila, who was the UN commissioner in Sudan as genocide in Darfur broke out.
Role play
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/10/2014
» The stories of good girls gone wild mirror one another. Britney Spears. Christina Aguilera. Miley Cyrus. Sara Malakul Lane.
Drawing upon days past
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 22/10/2014
» In her current solo exhibition "Days Of (Endless) Meaninglessness" at 100 Tonson Gallery, Phaptawan Suwannakudt draws on the emotions she experienced during a visit home last December to create five triptychs and a video. She looks at Thailand, her home, with nostalgia as an emigrant and unease as a citizen. Here, she is at once an insider and an outsider.
The girl with stories in her hair
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/09/2014
» When she was 31, Imhathai Suwatthanasilp started collecting hair she lost in the shower, over a period of 31 washes, and wove them separately. After about four months, she weighed down each set of woven hair with small stones dating the day the strands of hair had fallen out. The finished works, The Thirty-First, are like tornadoes, arranged in a row on a light box. They are intricate and fragile but contain within themselves a whirlwind of emotions. Imhathai likens them to blooming flowers.
Just think about it, baby
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 29/08/2014
» The Department of Health Service Support has hastily issued a proposal for the surrogacy bill currently being drafted, suggesting a ban on surrogates who have no blood ties to the intended parents, in an attempt to prevent commercial surrogacy.