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No apologies for Sari
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/03/2015
» It was a full house at Aksra Theatre earlier this month for the performance, Sari, by the Daksha Sheth Dance Company, a programme that was part of this year's Festival of India In Thailand. Throughout the one-hour performance, dancers moved with yarn and strips of cloth, along with fluid stage lights and accompanied by original a cappella songs.
The voice of the northeast
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/03/2015
» By the haystack next to a rice field, Yothin Kijbai sung out in high-pitched, rhyming Isan verses that he apparently knew by heart. Dressed in a light blue costume adorned with glittering sequins, the 68-old-year is not a madman but a well-known "comedy molam".
From the past, into the future
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/02/2015
» There are three versions of Korakrit Arunanondchai, one of Thailand's hottest mavericks whose works have been shown internationally in recent years: first, Korakrit in person, who isn't the most comprehensible of talkers; second, the Korakrit he professes himself to be, which is a jeans-clad, fiery-haired, spontaneous painter and gangster/rapper performance artist.
Banking on the future
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/08/2014
» Everybody from the Baan Koh Tiab fishing community in Chumphon knows Jang Fungfeung.
Creative dialogue
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/07/2014
» It’s either very enticing or discouraging to viewers when curator Andrew Stahl says that his new exhibition “illustrates nothing” and that “we expect an electric conversation with excitement and perhaps even failure”. The show is called “Monologue Dialogue 3: Fragility And Monumentality”, currently on display on the ninth floor of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, and the works from various artists shown together are just as overwhelming as the exhibition’s title itself.
The dream maker
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/07/2014
» An old photograph inside Ferrari’s headquarters in Maranello, northern Italy, shows a young, long-haired man brimming with joy and anticipation as a red racing car approaches the finishing line. It shows the 1974 Spanish Grand Prix and Niki Lauda’s first grand prix victory. The young man is Luca Cordero di Montezemolo; then Ferrari Formula One team manager and now, more than 40 years later, the chairman of Ferrari.
Sewn in
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/06/2014
» You can call Jakkai Siributr a “textile artist” — he doesn’t mind.