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Underwater folly
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/06/2019
» In the aquatic chamber, the tank looms. Encrusted and barnacled, the mighty war machine has become a home of fish and corals. It seems incapacitated, abandoned, useless. Such is an illusion: if the tank is submerged, we're down there with it, drowned in that inexorable aquarium. Look, its gun still points at us, and its shadow all-consuming.
A one-man 'loveable rogues' gallery
B Magazine, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/05/2018
» Sunny Suwanmethanont raises his thick eyebrows and chuckles. He forks a piece of mango into his mouth while he considers something -- an existential query of sorts.
A place where indies can thrive
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/03/2018
» The stone latticework of Cinema Oasis gives its façade a vaguely Middle Eastern look. Up on the 2nd floor gallery that runs along the screening room, pockets of sunlight shine in through the gaps in the pattern. Looking down, you see what's left of what was once a large pond. An oasis, maybe, as the name suggests.
Dissecting a nation
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/06/2017
» Pasuk Phongpaichit's and Chris Baker's house is a verdant abode at the end of a maze in an Ekamai sub-soi. The garden at the back has tall trees and a small, tea-coloured pond. The whole area used to be a swamp, said Baker. The couple, both highly respected scholars in Thai studies, have been living there since 1987, or in their lexicon, "just before the boom" -- the high-flying economic expansion whose seismic shifts forever transformed Thailand in the early 1990s. Had they wanted to purchase the plot slightly later than they actually did -- after the boom had set in -- they wouldn't have been able to. "We came just before the high-rises."
The art of calculation
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/01/2016
» Chiang Mai's art scene is brewing with optimistic energy through the city's small galleries and the strong presence of its artists' enclave. Young artists find their debut here, while established brand names -- such as Navin Rawachaikul, the subject of our cover story today -- provide a solid backbone and publicity. Surveying the northern town on the last week of 2015, we sensed a great enthusiasm over a new space to open later this year, a converted warehouse in San Kampaeng called Mai Iam, which looks set to be a scintillating game-changer in the national contemporary art circle.
The accidental warehouse
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/02/2014
» To experience a show bearing Rirkrit Tiravanija's name is to witness and to succumb, to feel the urge to giggle and to raise eyebrows in wonder. No more cooking this time, or at least not in the main gallery; but the playfulness, the appearance of spontaneity, and the plain what-is-that incredulity that accompany his works of the past three decades are healthily, unexpectedly there.
Time capsule unlocked
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/07/2012
» Before photographs of people outnumbered the entire population of the world, having one's image captured on film was a privilege, a real cause for pride.