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What's trending and happening this week
Muse, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 18/08/2018
» 1. The Bangkok Biennial has brought to town its fair share of exhibitions, as pavilions are dispersed throughout the city. Opening this weekend, the Supernatural Pavilion is taking place in Care Nang Leung temple with a performance and video installation The 5x5 Legged Stool, based on the 1962 dance score by Ann Halpin, The Five Legged Stool. In Bangkok, a new performance by Mari Fukutome comes to life, captured by video artist Chulayarnnon Siriphol, and explores the ways in which contemporary dance is recorded and archived in time. Viewers can visit the pavilion until tomorrow. Performances will take place at 8pm at Wat Care Nang Lerng, Phaniang Road, Khwaeng Wat Sommanat and Khet Pom Prap Sattru Phai.
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Serving a higher purpose
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 04/06/2018
» The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) made headlines last month owing to more than one reason. Even before (appointed) Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang articulated his irking comments -- by which he made it known to the world that he would like to see the art centre turned into a co-working space packed with chairs -- critics and defenders of the BACC's management were already arguing on social media.
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A harbinger of things to come
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 30/05/2018
» The fifth floor of an office tower may seem an unusual choice of venue for Indonesia's first museum of modern and contemporary art, but its geographical location puzzled local and regional art aficionados the most.
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Against the flow
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 22/01/2018
» 'There used to be vendors hawking fresh vegetables in the sois and wholesale rice traders in several shophouses," Tip, a resident of Bangkok's Charoen Nakhon neighbourhood, notes.
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A trio of biennials
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 25/12/2017
» 'Thailand's first biennial(e)" is a phrase you'll most certainly hear next year, as the country will hold not one but three different art biennials in 2018, with the organisers of each claiming theirs as the earliest project.
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Time-travelling textiles
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 22/11/2017
» The clothes we wear in many ways convey to others who we are and where we come from. In the case of Indonesian traditional textile batik, this message is explicit, as patterns and motifs often tell the story of the wearer -- his or her geographical origin, family history and social status. The iconic garment piece, which reached national-symbol status for Indonesia, is currently the object of, and point of departure for, the exhibition "POLA - Patterns Of Meaning" at the Jim Thompson Art Centre.
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A new Bangkok is not a better Bangkok
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 11/09/2017
» "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Dickens's famous opening lines to <i>A Tale Of Two Cities</i> fits present-day Bangkok perfectly.
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Blue-sky thinking?
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 21/08/2017
» Over the last few months, crossing the Pathumwan intersection on foot was a near-impossible task requiring pedestrians to zig-zag along the mazes of malls and footpaths, as the pedestrian bridges were closed-off by a major construction site.
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A trio of biennials
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 12/07/2017
» Even if you don't ordinarily attend international art galleries, it doesn't matter -- the galleries will soon be coming to you, with the launch of not one but two art biennials (or Biennales) in Bangkok, and a Thailand Biennale to be held in Krabi next year.
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A tale of two biennales
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 09/06/2017
» 'Singapore has one, Shanghai has one. So do Taipei, Busan, Jakarta," Prof Apinan Poshyananda says, laughing.
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