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Supporting the team
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 17/01/2015
» Jeerapat Yamsri had just returned from Singapore for a family vacation over the New Year holidays with her family, her phone full of photographs of mascots from Universal Studios — close-ups of their feet, Shrek’s butt, a Minion’s goggles, a few pictures of her three children with the gang from Sesame Street.
Space for God
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 15/12/2014
» Charles Duke was only 36 years old when he walked on the moon. The Apollo 16 astronauts stayed there for 71 hours and 14 minutes. He and John Young spent 20 hours exploring the rough lunar surface on a rover, collecting rock and soil samples. The Apollo 16 took three days to return to earth.
Spinning the Isan narrative
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/12/2014
» Maitree Siriboon's latest series of work currently on exhibition at Whitespace Gallery was conceived during his art residency at Thaillywood in Chon Buri earlier this year.
Masterly delve into the video age
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 05/12/2014
» It's so meta sitting at House RCA cinema watching how its founders used to get their fix of indie films.
Culture, not commodity
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 02/12/2014
» On Oct 3, the Royal Thai government received a shipping container from the US government, through the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Inside were eight crates, containing 554 archaeological artefacts.
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.
The leader's true self
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/11/2014
» 'A few months ago, the [North Korean] Ministry of Interior issued a statement on TV — 'We will remove your existence from the universe'," says Jang Jin-sung, unfazed, over a decade after he fled North Korea in the middle of the day, across the frozen Yalu River and into China.
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.
Art that resists the confines of tradition
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 12/11/2014
» 'What do you call a midget fortune teller who has escaped from prison?" asks curator Joyce Toh. "Small medium at large," someone guesses, standing in front of a wall painted with words, photography, performance and mixed-media, all linked to look like electrons circling in an atom.
Molam's mass movement
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 07/11/2014
» 'Molam can't be tamed," so the old saying goes. The years have certainly proven this true. From now until the end of March next year, the Jim Thompson Art Center presents "Joyful Khaen, Joyful Dance", an exhibition tracing the development of molam from its ritualistic roots in Isan, through its passage as anti-communism propaganda, to its current place in pop culture, where the once rural music is played to the cool or even international crowd of Bangkok.