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Importance of moving on amid our grief
News, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/10/2016
» It has been two weeks now since the passing of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. For many of us, everything is still surreal wherein time is no factor. Since that fateful afternoon, the whole nation has turned black. "You'll no longer see what you have seen, but what you haven't seen before," someone wrote on his Facebook post. This is precisely the case.
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By approval
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/10/2016
» The most pressing issue in the capital's art scene this month is, of course, the well-being of some hundred carp put in the temporary pool as part of photographer Rapat Bunduwanich's "Photo Festival", a show whose title tricks us into thinking that there are other people in the show.
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A complex legacy
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/10/2016
» Towering over viewers right after entering the Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery at National Gallery Singapore is a massive photograph by Singaporean artist Lee Wen. It features the statue of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles with a platform nearby upon which ordinary people can literally and figuratively be on the same level as the figure who's considered the founder of Singapore.
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Route to pay your respects
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/10/2016
» It is a time of grief as the nation mourns the passing of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej last Thursday. Since last week, thousands of Thais have flocked daily, braving the scorching sun or heavy rain, to pay their respects before a portrait of His Majesty the King at the Sala Sahathai Samakhom Pavilion inside the Grand Palace, while His Majesty is lying in state at the Dusit Maha Prasart Throne Hall.
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Urban exploration
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 13/10/2016
» The basement space in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre's art library is usually bare and unexciting. Now, however, it's filled with an array of patterns -- abstract from one angle, vaguely figurative from another -- in forms of tapestry and felt that work as canvases and even sculptural forms.
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Personal scars, political history
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 12/10/2016
» In "Under The Same Sky", the latest exhibition at Nova Contemporary by photographer Tada Hengsapkul and artist Chai Siris, personal history and that of the world entwine. In no way does the show appear to strive at having these narratives untangled.
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Never forget
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/10/2016
» In a stage performance that just finished its run on Sunday, performers re-enacted scenes in which victims were hunted, beaten and strangled to death. In an art exhibition opening tomorrow, we'll see in paintings traces of atrocious scenes in the foreground while the surface is heavily smudged with paint, to the point of abstraction.
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Abstraction remains our faulty coping mechanism
Oped, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/09/2016
» A theatrical performance, Fundamental, which lends its physical movements and body language to reconstruct Thailand's hushed-up history of the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy students on Oct 6, 1976 has attracted the regime's attention.
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Human suffering takes centrestage
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/09/2016
» After a two-year hiatus, playwright and director Nophand Boonyai is back with his new work Happy New Year Mr. Smith, a play about a divorcee, a person averse to marriage and a celebrity who are entering their 40s.
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High concept
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/09/2016
» Entang Wiharso, Geraldine Javier, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhao Zhao -- I've Googled them, and yes, they are all huge in the contemporary art world.
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