MAHA-PAVILION
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    • Suneil Sanzgiri
    • Ryat Yezbick
    • Kim Zumpfe
    • Boat Sutasinee Kansomdee
    • Yingyai Kampanat Kotkaew
    • Yanin Bandhaya
    • Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn
    • Wilawan Wiangthong
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MAHA Pavilion brings 5 international artists to propose a performance for a site of their choosing in Bangkok, on the occasion of the Bangkok Biennial 2020.

Paired with 5 local Bangkok performers, the Pavilion exists through this transnational collaboration between the performances conceived by the international artists and the performing bodies of the Bangkok-based artists.

Bangkok is the center of foreign desire.

​More often than not, what is seen of Thailand, is the image foreigners expect to see of Thailand. From massage parlors, to Pad Thais, to gold-tipped pagodas and giant Buddhas, to name a few examples, Thai identity has been reduced to a form of escapism for the overworked Westerners under capitalism. It is perhaps not a coincidence that this year’s Bangkok Art Biennale, organized by the Ministry of Culture, set the theme of ‘Escape Routes’, reinforcing the image of the capital as a site of relaxation, culinary and carnal indulgence. As is the case of other similar developing countries, tourism has had a large impact not only on the economy of the country but also, on its ecology, and self-representation. 


Tourism as a  neocolonial strategy, manipulates the desire for exoticism into furthering racial, gender and socioeconomic stereotypes. The function of stereotypes is to maintain the power imbalance between the Western dominant and the marginalized Other. In internalizing these Western stereotypes, the marginalized subject believes they are responding to a desire that’s been made of them. But the root of this desire is fabricated and arbitrarily-assigned. It therefore only deepens feelings of alienation and othering within the marginalized subject.   ​
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Performance

Recorded documentation of the 5 performances can be viewed here.
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Map + Calendar

The Pavilion exists every Sunday and Wednesday between 4th November - 21st November. Check our map and calendar for the next performance or attend the event live through our social media.

Recorded documentation of the performances will also be available to view on our website.
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Artists

TEO ALA-RUONA

Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki-based performance and visual artist and educator. Their work focuses on queer speculative fiction in forms of speech performances, texts, sound installations, video, community organizing and workshops.

BOAT SUTASINEE KANSOMDEE 

Sutasinee Kansomdee was born in 1987 in Chiang Mai. Now, Sutasinee lives and works in Chiang Mai. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University in the Printing Division(2011) and now studying Master's degree in Visual Arts, Chiang Mai University. Her artwork ranged in many forms of technique that include intaglio printing, industrial printing, mixed media, installation and performance art.

LINDA FRANKE

Linda Franke, born in Dresden, Germany, is a graduate of Universität der Künste Berlin, Chelsea School of Art and Design London, and Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Franke lives and works in Los Angeles since 2017.

YINGYAI KAMPANAT KOTKAEW

Kampanat Kotkaew also known as Yingyai, is a queer artist. Their practice covers a range of medium such as Painting, Photographic, Video, Embroidery, Performance art, Make-up art, and especially Drag queen transformation. They are interested in many fields research especially in
Sexual orientation, Gender Identity (Non-Binary, Genderless),and relationships between LGBTQ
and Social perspective.

SUNEIL SANGZIRI

Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker working to understand how systems of oppression are informed and reinforced by trauma, history, and memory. His work spans experimental video, animations, essays, and installations, and contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture and diaspora in relationship to structural violence.

YANIN BANDHAYA

Yanin is an independent music artist based in Bangkok. People know her as
a singer and songwriter but she is also interested in being known as a performance artist too. She combines Contemporary Dance and Improvisation Dance in her shows. She enjoys knowing what her anatomy can do or feel.

RYAT YEZBICK

Ryat Yezbick is a visual artist who uses their training in cultural anthropology to inform the issues they tackle as a maker. Their curiosity about group identity under late-capitalism has taken them around the globe, researching the impacts of digital surveillance technology on the aspirational behaviors of the participants in their films and performances. 

SIKARNT SKOOLISARIYAPORN

Sikarnt is currently based in and out of Bangkok. Their work oscillates between writing, performance, installation, moving image, objects and found situations. 

KIM ZUMPFE

Kim Zumpfe is an artist, writer and educator that works in Los Angeles. Primarily working in installation and performance, different modes of presence and representation are considered in relationship to performers, audience, and spaces to create individual experiences and social encounters.

WILAWAN WIANGTHONG

Wilawan is a Thai performance artist. She focuses on anthropology, gender, and feministic, Her artworks arise out of synthesis between performance and sculpture. The created identity has been characterized as fantastic and weird characters and recognized realistically in situation and space.

Conversations

Research processes, discussions and shared visual materials between the artists and organizer for the performances for the MAHA Pavilion 2020.
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  • Home
  • Performances
  • Artists
    • Teo Ala-Ruona
    • Linda Franke
    • Suneil Sanzgiri
    • Ryat Yezbick
    • Kim Zumpfe
    • Boat Sutasinee Kansomdee
    • Yingyai Kampanat Kotkaew
    • Yanin Bandhaya
    • Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn
    • Wilawan Wiangthong
  • Curatorial Statement
  • Conversations
  • Maps + Calendar
  • Bangkok Biennial 2020
  • Contact