Seeing Thai artists caught between the locally familiar and the globalized, tradition and international trends, Buddha and Cyberspace, one Thai Curator wondered, . . . is there anything in-between where we can talk about our own present condition, with a hybrid of old and new, in our own language? Abroad, interactive, participatory art events derived from the practices of Thai everyday life - eating, shopping, hanging out with friends, merit-making, sitting in class, protesting - give Thai artists one means to negotiate the treacherous waters of artistc identity, foregrounding aspects of being Thai without necessarily relying on exoticized cultural stereotypes or the neo-traditional artistic forms that rearticulate dominant Thai ideologies of nation/king/religion. Distinguishing between the everyday and Thai tradition enables these artists to sidestep or to criticize the institutionalized productions of Thainess and Thai tradition generated by the state and within corporate structures of art patronage. Pushing at the boundaries of their own art worlds, Thai artists also seek to shrink the distance between artist and audience, and to expand the public by leaving the white cube, breaking out of the galleries and invading the space of the everyday to attract attention. --Sandra Cate, Thai Artists, Resisting the Age of Spectacle, drawing from Gridthiya Projectthreeofour, On Thai Artists and an Issue of Cultural Identity, Apinan Poshyananda, Roaring Tigers, Desperate Dragons in Transition, Sandra Cate, Making Merit, Making Art: a Thai Temple in Wimbledon, Pandit Charichanakit, The Siamese Diorama and the Thai National Imaginary in Contemporary Thai Art, and Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics. Not sure how to respond yet...
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:39:45 +0000
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