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Vandy Rattana
Vandy Rattana’s Bomb Ponds series was made following a transformative encounter with the craters left over from 2,756,941 tons of bombs dropped by U. S. forces during the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1973. Dissatisfied with the level of documentation on the bombing and its repercussions, the artist began to study the historiography of his country. He travelled to the ten most severely bombed provinces, engaging villagers in locating and testifying to the existence of the craters, and how they are lived with today.
Vandy Rattana
A self-taught photographer, Vandy Rattana has focused on challenging conditions in Cambodia, his home country, by documenting natural and manmade disasters...
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about 3 months ago (01/26/2024)
How animals suffer for Buddhists to earn spiritual points – in Cambodia ‘life release’ rituals decimate birds | South China Morning Post How animals suffer for Buddhists to earn spiritual points – in Cambodia ‘life release’ rituals decimate birds Religion The Buddhist practice of releasing animals for spiritual merit is widespread in Cambodia, but it kills or injures millions of birds...
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about 5 months ago (11/21/2023)
Censorship and “Saving Face” In Cambodia | ArtsEquator Skip to content Censorship in Cambodia is often tied to upholding a certain image of the country...
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about 9 months ago (08/17/2023)
10 Things You Should Know About: Sepak Takraw | ArtsEquator Skip to content In the latest episode of our popular 10 Things You Should Know series, we share facts about the Sepak Takraw...
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about 15 months ago (02/01/2023)
Gen X to Gen Z: Generational Differences in the Shaping of Cambodia’s Cultural Preservation Policies | ArtsEquator Skip to content In Cambodia, most cases of arts censorship are linked to the notion of protecting and preserving culture...
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about 30 months ago (11/28/2021)
SEE WHAT SEE: SEA AT SGIFF 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 28, 2021 By ants chua, Ruby Thiagarajan and Janiqueel (1,200 words, 4-minute read) In this edition of See What See, we review three films made by Southeast Asian directors and featuring Southeast Asia currently showing at the Singapore International Film Festival 2021 (SGIFF)...
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about 34 months ago (07/14/2021)
Can the arts solve community issues in the region? The SEA*5 think so...
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about 46 months ago (07/28/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Eisner Winner Erica Eng; Pinoy rap and Duterte | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Alberto Prieto via Urbanist Hanoi July 28, 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...
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about 46 months ago (07/15/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Thai artists talk politics; The horror animation artist | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Hoang An / Tuoi Tre July 16, 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...
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about 48 months ago (06/03/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Artists join in #JunkTerrorBill; Indonesia's promised arts funding | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Arya Dipa via Jakarta Post June 3, 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...
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about 48 months ago (05/28/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Looking back at Uncle Boonmee; Indonesian legends in game | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Via Bangkok Post May 28, 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...
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about 50 months ago (03/19/2020)
The Space of/for Memory: ”Last Night I Saw You Smiling” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of artist March 19, 2020 By Alfonse Chiu (2,078 words, 7-minute read) Every space tells a story: the empty prison cell speaks of redemptions, of wrongs that were righted, and to the cynical, more earthly, minds, of miscarriages of justice, and the irrevocability of tragedies and the people who made them; the crowded hospital ward hums, sometimes a baleful tune when a heart attack becomes a full-body scan becomes something decidedly terminal, and sometimes a bright chime when a newborn takes their first breaths and screams to announce their entry into this world; and tales of homes, houses, and hauntings have infested almost every definition and genre of fiction and non-fiction known to mankind: killing, nourishing, obscuring, stagnating, etc...
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about 52 months ago (01/22/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Jakarta's controversial Performance Art Club; Bangkok Art Biennale | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar 69 Performance Club January 23, 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...
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about 52 months ago (01/16/2020)
20 Arts and Cultural Festivals to Visit in Southeast Asia in 2020 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Sunitha Janamohanan January 16, 2020 It’s the year 2020 and the world is rife with new Instagram filters, hashtag 2020vision (yes, we get it) and the perennial “new year, new me” declarations...
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about 53 months ago (12/18/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: UNESCO honour for Pencak Silat; Saigon car crash | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Khun Vannak December 18, 2019 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...
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about 54 months ago (12/05/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Much ado about tattoo; tribute to Gendang master | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Via Thailand Tatler December 5, 2019 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...
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about 54 months ago (11/12/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Poetry, wrestlers and colonialism strikes again in the Philippines | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar DPAC November 13, 2019 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...
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about 56 months ago (10/03/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: First nude painting exhibition in Hanoi; Teater Garasi wins Ibsen scholarship | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy October 3, 2019 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...
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about 56 months ago (09/18/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Ultraman Buddha hotly traded; Course on democratic dissent cancelled in Singapore | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Photo: Chardchakaj Waikawee / Facebook September 18, 2019 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...
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about 64 months ago (01/21/2019)
Music – a propaganda promoting the Khmer Rouge socialist identity (via the Phnom Penh Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 21, 2019 Shortly after their rise to power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge sought to change the social identity of the Khmer people...
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about 65 months ago (01/04/2019)
Masked dance tradition rises from near extinction in Cambodia (via Reuters) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar REUTERS/Jorge Silva January 4, 2019 PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Cambodia’s centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge’s “Killing Fields” regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep it alive and are now working to pass it along to a new generation...
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about 66 months ago (11/28/2018)
Plastic Kingdom: art exhibition questions Cambodia’s rampant waste problem (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 28, 2018 An new art exhibition in Phnom Penh featuring works by Cambodian and foreign artists will raise questions about plastic use and recycling, through woodcarvings, illustrations and even a motorbike...
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about 69 months ago (09/11/2018)
Vietnamese Cultural Week opens in Cambodia (via Nhân Dân) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 11, 2018 NDO – The Vietnamese Culture Week opened at Chaktomuk theatre, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on September 11...
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about 70 months ago (08/14/2018)
“Between Tiny Cities (រវាងទីក្រុងតូច)”: De-cyphering Conversation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Vincent August 14, 2018 By Nah Dominic (1080 words, five-minute read) A white circle 10 metres in diameter greets us on entering the flexible performance space in Loft 29...
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about 71 months ago (07/05/2018)
An orphaned artist paints for support (via The Phnom Penh Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 5, 2018 Self-taught artist Yi Kakada has spent the past six years demonstrating his skills by painting on walls, fences and other public areas, often without getting paid...
