246247596248914102516… And then there were none narrates a semi fictional account centered around the ambiguous history of the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, and on the aftermath of the 1973 demonstration of 400,000 people who marched against the military junta from Thammasat University to the monument. Built on archival and oral history, the story interweaves the personal with grand historical narratives to consider the complicated history behind the monument – symbolic of the unrest and violence that led to the Thammasat University massacre on October 6, 1976.
Arin Rungjang’s practice is known to revisit historical and political narratives, both major and minor, as a means to consider the past, present and future. He often employs everyday objects as a device to open the work up to multiple perspectives and re-narrate histories from the context of today. With a practice involving multiple mediums, particularly video and site-specific installations, Rungjung’s work nimbly draws together remote instances to intersect and situate the lesser-known narratives of Thai history within the present-day.
Artists' Postcards: A Compendium, By Jeremy Cooper | The Independent | The Independent Of interest to students of art and deltiologists (collectors of postcards) alike, Jeremy Cooper's extensively illustrated book provides the first critical study of the place of the humble postcard in the history of art...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Vietnam's post-war writers; Burmese voices in book | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar BACC October 8, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
Forgotten Statues , 2020 continues the artist’s reflections on power and the fragility of works of art...
Masterpiece in the Water by Lu Pingyuan tells the story of an impatient collector who is killed by an artist...
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Masks is a series of abstract paintings by Simon Fujiwara that together form a giant, fragmented portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s face...
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This artwork was part of a group of projects presented in the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013...
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With Martha Araújo, Milena Bonilla, Angelica Mesiti, Shitamichi Motoyuki and Emilija Škarnulyte Curated by Marie Martraire, director of KADIST, San Francisco Reflecting on the relationship between History and memory, the group exhibition Moving Stones focuses on the body as a site of engagement to address our collective past embodied in public monuments...
This work presents the image of an immolated monk engraved on a baseball bat...
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