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So much art, so little time
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 01/02/2017
» Chiang Mai got its fill last weekend, and now it's time for the Bangkok edition of Galleries' Night, organised by the French embassy. First of all, it just amazes you how active the scene is. Running on Friday and Saturday, there will be more than 40 galleries participating in the event where venues open late into the night.
Brave new world
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/09/2016
» At NACC, a small and bare art space in the much-hyped Soi Nana near the Hua Lamphong MRT station, works in different media -- installation, photography and video -- from five artists are thrown together. One video shows a sound artist, covered in the fluidity of lighting projection, lost in his own music while another features a woman holding a block of ice in the middle of the sea.
Cool Thailand?
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/04/2016
» It is only with reference to J-pop or K-pop that we have a clue as to what the word "T-pop" could possibly mean: an attempt at cultural export -- film, music and other forms of entertainment -- to create a "Thai brand" of cool. It's better late than never, so the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has recently launched a campaign, with Thai star Mario Maurer as the presenter, with the aim to boost tourism in Thailand and expand the entertainment market in China.
Inspiration of a sexual provocateur
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/03/2015
» Thai-American artist Michael Shaowanasai describes the new collection currently on display at Adler Subhashok Gallery as being formed by a process resembling sexual intercourse: he lay passively while letting his partners, or those who created the pieces from his concept and instructions, do the work for him.
UFO: Things we think we know
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/09/2014
» Spectacles currently to be seen in the art gallery above WTF, the cafe/restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 51, include a 10 baht coin in perpetual motion, a chair balanced on the blade of a knife and a whole row of leaning chairs propped up by a single pencil.
In and on the air
Muse, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/09/2014
» Tanida Hantaweewatana's full-time job is to be up in the air. But when she's on the ground, she writes the script for the TV hit, Hormones The Series, a programme known for its bold and honest portrayal of teenagers, which started its second season two months ago.
Sewn in
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/06/2014
» You can call Jakkai Siributr a “textile artist” — he doesn’t mind.
A Monthly column rounding up the best of the capital’s arts scene
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/06/2014
» A wide-eyed little girl leans heavily against a cushion, her face half buried in its comforting softness. It’s as if she’s hiding from reality, from whoever fired the shell or grenade that has punched a gaping hole in the wall behind the sofa she’s sprawled on.
The means justify the end
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/12/2013
» Allow me to venture a thought we might have overlooked during the weeks-long fight between Suthep-led anti-Thaksin protests and Yingluck Shinawatra's government _ Thais are fighting over something that may become beautiful.
Lessons in letters
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/10/2013
» Before receiving an official phone call from the judging committee or the competition organiser, Angkarn Chanthathip learned he had won this year's SEA Write Award from a post "some Facebook friend made". It wasn't on his Wall, but randomly in the Newsfeed _ perhaps the most un-poetic mode of modern communication.