By Eva McGovern

Thai artist Maitree Siriboon’s exhibition Isarn Boy Soi 4 at Whitespace Gallery. An intoxicating total installation or better yet a self reflective temple/bordello/nightclub for the artist to pause on issues of culture and gender identity

By Eva McGovern

The 53rd Venice Biennale, ‘Making Worlds’, directed by Daniel Birnbaum and the Asian Pavilions.

by Tunyaporn Hongtong

They say the boundary between art and psychosis is a very thin line. Sometimes, the line is so thin that it starts to blur and enables both artists and psychopaths to traffic unhindered.

by Eva McGovern

I was forwarded this link to a new work by Thai artist Wit Pimkanchanapong and Duckunit studio. I was so hypnotised by it that I had to share it with you all. It’s called My-ya-rab which is a type of sensitive plant or Mimosa in Thai and is a large scale kinetic sculpture currently installed at Bangkok Art & Cultural centre.

by Haseena Abdul Majid

Haseena joins Mit Jai-Inn last Saturday as one of his guest audience for his 12 hour long social performance. These are notes and impressions from her participation

by Simon Soon

Mit Jai-Inn’s work is conscious about the history of painting in many ways. In a sense, there’s the utopian gesture that is paradoxically embedded in the destructive system of Mondrian’s oeuvre that Mit is unafraid to reference, using this goal as a way to explore a reductive style that transpires the nihilism of minimalist art and its subsequent absorption into high style furnishing.

by Tunyaporn Hongtong

It has come to a point where I’m not sure if this exhibition is recognised solely as a platform for promoting the works of new Thai artists or that there’s an expectation that these artists would soon join the ranks of their predecessors to become the hot new thing in Thailand’s contemporary art scene. After all, the exhibtion is known to be a launch pad for the career of some of Thailand’s most well-known contemporary artists (Arin Roongjang, Porntaweesak Rimsakul, Yuree Kensakoo etc.). Reflecting on this, I reckon it does work both ways. And actually… why waste time doubting it anyway? It’s a good art project when you get right down to it.

by Simon Soon

No one speaks of the quotidian in a more fluently surreal language than Apichatpong Weerasethakul. I always like the way he describes his films. In this new short film, specially commissioned for AnimateProjects as part of his new installation ‘Primitive’, he speaks of it as a portrait of home and projects a vision of a place that is both destructive and tender, painting a tableaux that vividly sticks to one’s imagination.