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Sakarin Krue-on at Museum Of Mind

Museum Of Mind featuring work by Sakarin Krue-on

at 23 bar Sukhumvit 23 (soi Prasarnmit) BKK.
On Friday 2 May 2008 at 6.30 - 24.00 p.m.
Tel.(+66) 02 258 3566

Contact : PHARAWI PHUPHET vee
(+66) 0 85951 5445

www.museumofmind.com

Will Not Cry in Public

A media art exhibition
By Olan Netrangsi, Pathompon Tesprateep, and Sathit Sattarasart
April 17-May 17, 2008
at 7th Floor, Main Library, Chulalongkorn University

Yield is a group of young artists from Bangkok, consisting of Olan Netrangsi, Pathompon Tesprateep, and Sathit Sattarasart. They all graduated from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Applied Art. Born in the 1970s and shared their interest in independent film, alternative music and culture, yield actively involved with a group of young independent film and video makers based in Bangkok.

This exhibition focuses on public and private issues, control / yield, and fiction / reality. This young generation artists expressed their individual concern on different level and dimension of social structure and media propaganda.

Olan Netrangsi’s works consisted of interactive video and 2 channel screens TV addressing the power of media propaganda in daily basis on how it effect our lives and how much can we resist them? It raised the questions to us whether we have to be the victim of media, in order to blend in with the society. Is it too power and able to brainwash us to automatically following their marketing strategy?

Working as music maker, artist and video maker, Pathompon Tesprateep’s meditated works depict his selective point of view to the society. In the exhibition, he present a series of downloaded cover version of Billy Joel’s song, ‘Just the Way you are’ performed by different people around the world from youtube, the biggest video community among virtual society. He integrates his video, “there is no center of the universe”, which is inspired by Caspar David Friedrich, a German landscape artist, portraying the abandonment of all faiths.







Interested in fiction and reality, the new video work of Sathit Sattarasart, “This construct can serve no purpose anymore“, It was inspired by a quote of HAL 9000, a super computer in Stanley Kubrick’s film, “2001: A Space Odyssey. Instead of spoon-feeding audiences with direct visual images, he twists the way of watching moving pictures by activates the audiences’ imagination based on character’s conversation. Along with the video, his photograph and text-based painting correspond to various dimensions of spaces in the movie, reality and imagination.

SULU STORIES

A photo exhibition by Yee I-Lann

Duration: 19 April – 29 May 2008
[Opening date Sat 19 Apr: artist talk 5 pm; party 6.30 pm]

Yee I-Lann, a leading Malaysian photo artist presents a series of manipulated photographic prints.
Coming from Sabah on the Sulu sea, she reveals the intense relationship between identity and landscape in her 'Sulu Stories'.

"A haunted sea, barred to the world for decades by the currents of politics and prejudice. The Sulu sea, powered by the pull of the moon, filled with her tears, becomes my vessel on which to surture the dioramas I had found there."

Venue: Kathmandu Photo Gallery
87 Pan road (near Indian Temple), Silom, Bangkok 10500
[Five minutes' walk from Surasak BTS]
Tel : 02-234-6700, Fax : 02-661-4413
email: kathmandu.bkk@gmail.com
www.kathmandu-bkk.com
Open daily except Monday, from 11 AM to 7 PM

SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY: THAILAND'S EDITION

SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY finally ready to release the Thailand 'S edition.

As you may know, there are "Surprise Shots" added!

Date: Thursday April 10th event at the Paragon Cineplex:
---18:00 Discussion by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ajarn Dang Kittisak Suwannapokin, Thai Media Reform representative
---20:00 Syndromes and a Century screeening + Q & A

In Paragon Cineplex from April 10th - 24th, 2008
+ Extensive 2-weeks exhibition of Thailand's film censorship history & present & future @ the foyer of Paragon Cineplex

Get collectible postcard (!) with Youtube links (!) for all tickets purchased
All proceeds go to the Thai Film Foundation
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www.kickthemachine.com

Symposium on “Japanese Art and Culture”

Symposium on “Japanese Art and Culture”

The Jim Thompson Art Center cordially invites you to join the symposium on “Japanese Art and Culture”, one of the educational programs of ‘Tomyam Pladib’,
the current exhibition at the Jim Thompson Art Center.

Date: Thursday, April 24th 2008
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Venue: The Ayara Hall at the Jim Thompson House Museum Compound
Speakers: Yuko Hasekawa, Mami Kataoka and Raiji Kuroda

The symposium on “Japanese Art and Culture” is a half-day seminar that will feature presentations by three renowned curators from Japan.

The three curators will present their insights on the role and the current movements in the Japanese contemporary art scene, namely its trends and the booming market. The three distinguished curators include: Yuko Hasekawa, Chief curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Mami Kataoka, Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and Hayward Gallery, London; and Raiji Kuroda, Chief Curator, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka.

The program is partially funded by the Japan Foundation, Bangkok. (The Program will be presented in English with Thai simultaneous translation)

Please kindly note that the program is limited to 80 guests. Reservations can to be made in advance through Tel. 02 612 6741/
email: education@jimthompsonhouse.com
Program:

1:30 pm Registration

1:50 pm Opening speech by Mr. Takeji Yoshikawa,
Executive Director of the Southeast Asian Bureau,
Director General of Japan Foundation Bangkok

2:00-3:30 pm Symposium on “Japan Contemporary Art and Culture”
Speakers:
• Yuko Hasekawa, Chief curator,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
• Mami Kataoka, Senior Curator,
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and Hayward Gallery, London
• Raiji Kuroda, Chief Curator,
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka

3:30-3:45 pm Coffee Break

3:45-4:15 pm ‘Question and Answer’ session

4:15–4:30 pm Closing speech by Gridthiya Gaweewong,
Curator of ‘Tomyam Pladib’ exhibition
and the Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center

"กระดาษ" ("Paper" by Wisut Ponnimit)

25 March - 10 May 2008
Wisut Ponnimit presents "Paper", an exhibition of the original drawings from his famous comics, "hesheit".

นิทรรศการแสดงต้นฉบับของ ตั้ม-วิศุทธิ์ พรนิมิตร
29 มีนาคม – 10 พฤษภาคม 2551
สถานที่: People Space
116 ถนนแพร่งภูธร แขวงศาลเจ้าพ่อเสือ เขตพระนคร กรุงเทพฯ 10200
Tel: 081-5491002
Email: people.space@yahoo.com
www.people-space.blogspot.com