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Ornanong Thaisriwong feels violated
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/01/2015
» The tag line for Ornanong Thaisriwong's B-Floor Theatre solo performance Bang-La-Merd two years ago, was "My Wonderfully Smiling City". For its restaging, which begins today at Thonglor Art Space, however, it has changed to "The Land I Do Not Own".
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Behind the scenes
Muse, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/11/2014
» Sarinrat Thomas has a passion for two things: theatre and mental health. The former started out from a role she did for fun in a university play. The latter was from when she hosted a TV show about mental health; she always had a lot of questions for doctors.
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Dark laughter
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/10/2014
» Director and playwright Nophand Boonyai once saw a random photo of four Japanese girls staring dead-faced at the camera. He pondered as to how they had got that look in their eyes and then heard the song I Only Have Eyes For You. He suddenly had a vision of Earth, seen from outer space: there was a dead body lying still, pale white in the moonlight.
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Art in experiment
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/08/2014
» 'The Experimental Video Art Exhibition" on show at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC) is certainly not something meant to be easily comprehended. Visiting the venue, even after a second or third time, is always a puzzling and exhausting undertaking.
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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.
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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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Tongue-tied about Thai politics
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/05/2014
» Now is definitely not the best time for us Thais to be travelling abroad, especially if we have to engage in conversations with foreigners about the political situation here. Last weekend, I was on a media trip with a group of reporters from Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines and we had to meet up with quite a few people from Europe.
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The truth will out
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/01/2014
» Over the past few months, the social media in Thailand has literally turned from a playground for fun and entertaining diversions into a veritable battlefield. Facebook's bragging, attention-seeking statuses and narcissistic selfies have been replaced by quotes, reports, pictures and video clips attacking those on the opposite side of the political divide _ and to convince and confirm the righteousness of one's own camp.
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Quiet roars in the lion city
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/12/2013
» Among the artists from Southeast Asia and beyond featured at this year's Singapore Biennale _ and I concede there may be some bias in my saying so _ those from Thailand, albeit only a handful, made quite an impact.
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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.
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