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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.
Chaos theory
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 15/06/2016
» In a lot of cases, one way of looking at an exhibition is as a site where chaos -- ideas, emotions, imagination, truths, etc -- is sorted out and made sense of through a curatorial process.
Examining urbanity
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/06/2015
» Stepping into the dimly lit Jim Thompson Art Center, one immediately feels connected. The parade of motorcycles is more than a common sight in Bangkok. The colourful car headlining and flaring lights are reminiscent of a songthaew ride home. Other video installations featuring in the space's current exhibition "Missing Links" are instantaneously relatable, even without any explanatory text.
Becoming blissfully aware
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/05/2015
» Jenjira Pongpas has no clue what Blissfully Yours, the 2002 Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard prize-winning film by director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is all about. Not while first reading the script, not while acting it in, not after the film won the prestigious award that heralded Thai art house cinema, and not even today.
And the award goes to...
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/02/2015
» The city’s most innovative plays and performances were celebrated on Tuesday night at the third edition of 2014 IATC Thailand Dance and Theatre Review awards at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
Room for change
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/11/2014
» For Israeli stage artists Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, there’s no longer a separation between life and art. They have been partners in life for 13 years and the works they have created together since 2004 are, according to a recent interview with Life, “their babies”.
Show and tell
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/08/2014
» Silpathorn Award-winning artist Sineenadh Keitprai's latest work is about women's bodies, especially the breasts. Entitled Ngao-Rang (Shade Borders), the show doesn't treat the subject in a sensual sense; instead it seeks to tell stories, express feelings and recall memories behind the female form.
Linguistic realities
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/08/2014
» With indecipherable squiggles on the whiteboard, July Premprecha, a Burmese language teacher, wrote a few simple greetings to her class. Although it is only halfway into the first term with Burmese in the curriculum, the Thai students of Pichairattanakarn School in Ranong province can already respond to simple questions with ease.