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Fair winds
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/11/2016
» In the waters off Hua Hin's coastline, all was calm at first. Then, all of a sudden, a strong wind picked up, sending a young boy and his sailing dinghy to clash with another boat, which was leading the race.
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Where time and space cease to exist
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/11/2016
» How do we picture the world and ourselves? That is one of the key questions asked in "An Atlas Of Mirrors", the fifth edition of Singapore Biennale, which opened last week at various venues with the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and SAM at 8Q as the main spaces. As many as 63 artists and collectives joined and the result is a gushing forth of narratives -- collective and personal, historical and contemporary, factual and imaginary.
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NYC attitude in BKK
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/03/2016
» The thing is Korakrit Arunanondchai is coming to town. And whether you love or hate the denim-clad, fiery-haired New York-based artist, it's very likely that, starting this weekend, he will be pretty much taking over the Bangkok art scene.
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Regional revolution
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/02/2016
» 'An art fair is always a commercial event," said Lorenzo Rudolf, founder and president of Art Stage Singapore whose sixth edition ended last month. There's not a response more apt than that to a common complaint like: "Oh, but Art Stage is too commercial." It's an art fair, and quite naturally, as Rudolf added in an interview during the fair, "the galleries come here to sell".
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Myth, love and blind earthworms
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/11/2015
» Veeraporn Nitiprapha's debut novel, which has just won this year's SEA Write Award, is ultimately a trap. Read it, and if you are totally into the world this author has created, then you are, as the book's title suggests, a Blind Earthworm In A Labyrinth (Saiduan Tabod Nai Khaowongkot).
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Out of the darkroom
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 23/09/2015
» One doesn't know where to begin, and with what sort of mood, with "Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters Of Photography".
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Facades of normality
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/02/2015
» Try clicking "join" to just a few exhibition opening events on Facebook and you will realise how overwhelming the Bangkok art scene can actually be. There are notifications of pre-opening private views, pre-opening talks, opening parties, special performances, and, of course, an exhibition closing party again. These plethora of events are totally understandable, however, because art spaces in Bangkok are becoming more about being a fun place to hang out, and, it has to be said, art does get better after a few beers.
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Water World
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/06/2014
» It was scorching at a wharf in the Samae San community in Chon Buri province last week. And while most of us probably couldn’t stand more than five minutes of the stifling heat and salty air, 30 watercolour artists, both Thai and international, spent hours obsessively painting.
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Art of queer ideas
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 12/03/2014
» An exhibition currently on display at Chulalongkorn University’s The Art Center combines videos, oil-on-canvas paintings on walls and gigantic creations hanging from roofs. There are photographs of nakedness and nature, huge installation works on floors and electronic sculptures which could take you quite some time to figure out, if at all.
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Diving in with Swim Deep
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/02/2014
» It was a full house at Mongkol RCA Studio earlier this month for English indie rock band Swim Deep. It was the first time in Bangkok for the four-piece outfit from West Midlands, which played quite a few festivals around the word, including Glastonbury last year, since the August release of its debut album Where The Heaven Are We .
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