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page turner Creating a cosy corner, for work or play
26/05/2012 : We all need a place we can call our own - a space where we can work, read, write or simply sit; somewhere we can be alone, where we can luxuriate in peace and quiet, surrounded by objects that give us pleasure or inspiration.
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feature What a girl wants
26/05/2012 : There's a little girl in every woman, or so believes Panida Iamsirinoppakul - the young editor at Polkadot Books. For Panida, it's for this little girl that this publishing house with a girlish name exists.
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One world, Many voices
18/04/2012 : When the spectre of Aids emerged at the beginning of the 1980s, a remarkable legacy of critical writing and activism followed. The work of intellectuals such as Douglas Crimp, Richard Meyer and Simon Watney steadfastly drew attention to the terrible ways that language and media representation was stigmatising those affected by the disease _ from pervasive claims that there could be "innocent" victims of HIV to the notion of "high-risk groups" (as if your identity, not your behaviour, made you vulnerable) to the sheer visceral terms by which the disease was portrayed. Images of people with Aids circulated as pure spectacle, denying the complexity of experience and our own responsibility for the spread of the virus.
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FXE (Friends X Enemies)
18/04/2012 : Galerie N 139/5 Witthayu Road Tues-Sun, 10am-7pm May 3-June 12 Call 02-654-0522
Going the distance
18/04/2012 : Why take any old car when you can get where you're going by rickshaw or camel? For two real-life adrenaline junkies charged with circumnavigating the globe using every mode of transportation possible, it's not the destination that counts, but the journey.
French language tribute to hm the king
18/04/2012 : In celebration of His Majesty the King's 84th birthday, Gitasiravadha Foundation has produced an album with book entitled Gitasiravadha... A tout jamais, which features His Majesty's compositions sung in French, with lyrics by Premika Sucharitkul, a trilingual interpreter who graduated from Institut Superieur d'Interpretariat et de Traduction.
Lao new wave
18/04/2012 : For decades, the light has been out in Laos. The movie screens have become totally dark, and the profession known elsewhere as "actor" is, up to today, still non-existent. For so many years our land-locked neighbour has subsisted on a staple of Thai TV soaps and movies, cultural imports that have travelled, or been smuggled, through airwaves and distribution channels, and so much is our cross-Mekong dominance that Lao people have almost forgotten what it's like to watch a Lao film.
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Musical styles meet in Malaysia
17/04/2012 : The Penang World Music Festival returned recently after a three-year break and World Beat was there from March 30 to April 1 to enjoy the reconstituted three-day music festival.
Sketches of rural civilisation
17/04/2012 : Whitespace Gallery presents "Fundamentals of Living", which showcases a collection of uncomplicated sketches by art professor Tanupon
What it means to be Chinese
17/04/2012 : Chula Art Centre presents Convergence, a photography exhibition by Wei Leng Tay, a Hong Kong-based Chinese artist. Born out of disconnection to her cultural roots, Wei Leng uses photography and audio interviews to explore ideas of the Chinese diaspora and Asian identities against the backdrop of growing globalisation.
Painter's debut
16/04/2012 : 100 Tonson Gallery presents Uncover, the first solo exhibition by Manut Lao-on _ a Thai painter from Silpakorn University whose acrylic on canvas paintings reveal the experiences and casualties of life.
Heads and Tales
16/04/2012 : WTF Gallery presents Face, Faith, Fake, which features more than 120 interactive ceramic sculptures of human heads by Jakraphun Thanateeranon.
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