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In the name of the father?
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/12/2014
» Today is Father's Day, so it's natural that I talk about my dad. But there's really nothing to say about him other than he just made me a pot pie with extra quail eggs this morning, and is now, as you are reading this, probably swimming to Bee Gees tunes on a Sony waterproof MP3 player he just bought.
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Audience as participant
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/12/2014
» A new exhibition “[-]1: ‘The Great Artist Of Tomorrow Will Go Underground’ — Marcel Duchamp” at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre doesn’t look like it’s ready for public viewing yet. At the opening reception last Friday, some space at the seventh floor gallery was still empty. In some corners, random objects such as tables, wooden panels, a fan and a fishing rod were lying about. I went back again on Sunday only to find a few artists sitting around, as if trying to “start” work on something. They looked almost as lost as I did.
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Making connections, not cash
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/01/2015
» Artist Pisitakun Kuantalaeng, 28, was once a Yellow Shirt. In less than a decade, Pisitakun went from a fervent supporter of anti-Thaksin politics and airport seizures to an artist who took to the streets after the junta seized power last May.
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Worst of times, best of times
Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 17/09/2014
» Under the current control of the military government, it is both the best and worst time to say what’s on your mind. Worst because what you casually post online today can prompt an invitation to a military camp tomorrow.
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Curses, solitude and desire
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/09/2014
» As soon as the rain stops, the nightmare begins. Despite the vibrant lights of River City on the other side of Chao Phraya River and the boats that pass by in the background, the five dancers in Jitti Chompee's latest work Little Room In Etienne Marcel manage to take the audience to a very dark place of solitude and filthy desire.
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Coming full circle
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/10/2014
» Running at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) until the middle of next month, “Thai Charisma: Heritage + Creative Power” is a juxtaposition of museum-quality artefacts and contemporary works of art — the very old with the very new — which results in an experience that’s sometimes so overwhelming that it’s difficult to digest or even describe.
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Hong Kong protest provokes Thai navel-gazing
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 01/10/2014
» As I write this, the latest Facebook status of Sombat Boonngamanong, leader of Thai pro-democracy group Red Sunday, reads: "Hong Kongers are not happy".
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UFO: Things we think we know
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/09/2014
» Spectacles currently to be seen in the art gallery above WTF, the cafe/restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 51, include a 10 baht coin in perpetual motion, a chair balanced on the blade of a knife and a whole row of leaning chairs propped up by a single pencil.
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Staging an LGBT revolution
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/10/2014
» It all started one day in July, when Sun Tawalwongsri visited Silom Society coffee shop and saw empty space on the fifth floor and rooftop, with BTS Skytrains passing by. Just a few months later, the veteran director, actor and choreographer established the appropriately named Sun Dance Theatre. The theatre is now celebrating its launch with The 1st Bangkok Queer Theatre Festival, which began last week and will continue until the end of year with six productions from five directors.
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Art Matters
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/08/2014
» From melted vases as sculptures to an experimental video showing furniture being dropped from high above, artists in their current exhibitions around the city have taken up concepts such as "destruction" or "failure", and led them towards an unconventional turn.
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