Tracey Emin recovering in Thailand after her ‘intestine nearly exploded’ | Tracey Emin | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Tracey Emin said her intestine ‘nearly exploded’ after an operation...
Met Museum to Return 16 Looted Khmer Artifacts Skip to content Unknown artist, "Head of Buddha" (7th century), sandstone, 24 x 13 x 12 3/4 inches (all photos courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) An ancient larger-than-life sandstone Buddha head, a bronze sculpture of a seated Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and a 10th-century goddess statuette from a remote temple complex are among 16 looted Khmer works currently in the process of repatriation back to Cambodia and Thailand, according to announcements by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) released today, December 15...
Artistic Freedom Report : Six Countries, 12 Years, 652 Violations | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of violations of artistic freedom in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and The Philippines from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010-2022...
Artistic Freedom Report Thailand: Expansive and Politically Contentious | ArtsEquator Skip to content The key findings and analysis of artistic freedom in Thailand from the Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database Project, 2010-2022...
artn’t: Thailand’s Rebel Artists | ArtsEquator Skip to content Nutcha Tantivitayapitak and Sudarat Musikawong travel to Chiang Mai, Thailand to shine a light on the artn’t Collective, who are currently facing numerous legal charges for works that are viewed as critiquing the state...
A national living treasure, a rock musician and an activist poet | ArtsEquator Skip to content Pristine de Leon remembers the artists and cultural workers from the Philippines we lost in 2022...
Wat Wanlayangkoon: A Life Given to Art and Justice | ArtsEquator Skip to content Sudarat Musikawong delves into the life of the late Wat Wanlayangkoon, an award winning novelist who left a lasting impact on the world of arts and activism in Thailand...
Art in Exile: Burmese Artists in Thailand | ArtsEquator Skip to content Burmese artists make art in exile in Thailand, finding refuge and showcasing cross-border solidarity for artistic freedom...
5 Advertisements That Are So Southeast Asian | ArtsEquator Skip to content Some advertisements are works of art...
COVID-19 and the arts in Southeast Asia - 2 years on | ArtsEquator Skip to content In March 2020, we spoke to 10 arts and culture workers from across Southeast Asia, in a bid to capture the sentiments on the ground as it shifted during the early days of the pandemic...
Podcast 101: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content ArtsEquator’s theatre podcast is back in 2022, with critics Lee Shu Yu, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia in a post-show conversation about three productions at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022: The Essential Playlist by The Second Breakfast Company (Singapore), Being: 息在 by 微 Wei Collective and Collaborators (Singapore) and OK Land by Circle Theatre (Thailand)...
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)...
SEE WHAT SEE: BOYS' LOVE (BL) DRAMAS | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 13, 2021 By Lainie Yeoh I grew up in an era where queer films were rare exceptions and it was your holy gay-af duty to watch all the ones you could access...
Performance Making during a Pandemic: Of Innovation, Form and Embeddedness | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Kornkarn Rungsawang September 29, 2021 By Adriana Nordin Manan (1,000 words, 3-minute read) If arts panel discussions are meant to reflect the times, “Critical Responses to Performance-Making in A Post-Pandemic World” positioned itself well: at this stage of the pandemic, it was less about open-ended contemplation of how the performing arts can retain vitality amidst the prohibitive circumstances, and more about sharing examples of performances that exemplify the act of moving ahead despite the barriers...
BIPAM 2021: Delight, despair, dialogue and the despot | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints September 17, 2021 By Nabilah Said (1,800 words, 6-minute read) I’ve never actually attended the Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM)...
OPEN CALL: Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Documentation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 16, 2021 ArtsEquator invites applications for the position of Researcher for a regional arts censorship documentation and publication project it is piloting...
SEE WHAT SEE (Mar 2021): GENRE FICTION | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints March 30, 2021 By Joel Tan Welcome back to See What See ! It’s our monthly round-up of interesting stuff by Singapore and regional makers that you can stream right here on the Internet...
Scene and Heard: Ritirong Jiwakanon, Theatre Designer | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Ritirong Jiwakanon September 24, 2020 (1,350 words, 5-minute read) My name is Ritirong Jiwakanon...
ArtsEquator, Deadline Now | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 2, 2020 by Kathy Rowland ArtsEquator sometimes feels like a mythical creature...
Seasons of Love: Southeast Asia-style | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 4, 2020 It started out as a “small project” amongst friends...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Hallyu love and cementing disaster | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar February 26, 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...
Progress at work: "Forward Shift" at da:ns festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng November 8, 2019 By Bernice Lee (1,507 words, 7-minute read) Forward Shift , a new platform for works-in-progress within Esplanade’s da:ns festival, begins with much fanfare...
BACC: Whose art centre is it anyway? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Reuters via South China Morning Post October 23, 2019 By Siriwat Pokrajen (1,180 words, 6-minute read) Anyone following the news about the Thai art scene must have already known about all the rough storms the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) has been sailing through in the past couple of years...
Podcast 61: The Media Landscape in Thailand | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Asian Arts Media Roundtable July 11, 2019 Duration: 20 min In our latest podcast, Thai theatre critic Amitha Amranand gives a comprehensive overview of the media landscape in Thailand, discussing the impact of the political and legal system on the arts and the paradoxical freedom that arts journalists have in the country...
Padmini Chettur’s "Varnam" and Pichet Klunchun’s "I Am A Demon": An Instructive Contrast | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 4, 2018 By Bilqis Hijjas (975 words, four-minute read) If you have ever felt that classical Indian dance is too melodramatic – if you have ever rolled your eyes at a dancer’s fervid abhinaya, or a poem narrator’s extravagant diction – or if you think all the bright drapery, clashing saris, and coloured lights are unbearably gaudy, then Padmini Chettur’s Varnam is the corrective you have been waiting for...
On The Level with Theatre Students of Taiwan and Thailand (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 19, 2018 A new Taiwan-Thailand drama school collaboration is as delectable as pineapple tarts...
Biennale seen posing challenges for artists (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 18, 2018 The Bangkok Art Biennale beginning on October 19 will have as its theme “Beyond Bliss”...
"Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession": Of Politics and Desire Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: Tananop Kanjanawutisit August 30, 2018 By Amitha Amranand (1225 words, six-minute read) Everyone is always watching and being watched in Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession , the latest play by Japanese director Toshiki Okada...
Who pays for art? (via Bangkok Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 12, 2018 Should museums be funded by the state or by private sponsors? The question looms large with the current problems at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), the largest publicly-funded art gallery in the country — and with the rise of many private galleries that seem to flourish with the burgeoning art scene....