Max Crosbie-Jones

2 weeks ago | artreview.com | Max Crosbie-Jones

After a 13-year hiatus, BEFF returns as a collective display of artistic might In February 1999, the avant-garde American filmmaker Bruce Baillie sent a letter encouraging a promising film graduate named Apichatpong Weerasethakul to persevere. ‘We must steer the young Asian film/video artists away from the commercial gloss, the superficial images, attitudes, aspirations,’ he wrote.

1 month ago | artreview.com | Max Crosbie-Jones

It’s fun to frolic amid art and nature in Thailand’s newly opened Khao Yai Art Forest, but it might yet take some time for this utopian enterprise to bloom“Maman is a spider and a mother, a nest and a prison. Yet for the first time, here in the jungle, the spider appears for what it is: a bug in the grass.” Stefano Rabolli Pansera, the debonair director of Thailand’s newest contemporary art attraction, Khao Yai Art Forest, is talking about the last work of this afternoon’s preview tour.

Dec 13, 2024 | artreview.com | Max Crosbie-Jones

Artists at risk back home are finding solace and relative safety in Thailand’s remote corners and art communitiesWithin the field of responsible exhibition-making and ethical art programming, risk management typically revolves around the elimination of health and safety hazards, background checks on sources of external funding, or perhaps, if the show at hand touches on sensitive topics, strategies to mitigate potential offence.

Nov 18, 2024 | artreview.com | Max Crosbie-Jones

A new show at Storage, Bangkok takes a range of subaltern, diasporic and postcolonial perspectives on home and belongingDieneke Jansen’s relationship with housing is complicated, as her video essay This Housing Thing (2021) makes clear. Footage of family photo albums supplement a voiceover in which the New Zealand-based artist recounts living during her student days in a “major health hazard” of a flat, back when “seventy-one percent of households were in home ownership”.

Oct 3, 2024 | artreview.com | Max Crosbie-Jones

There’s more than meets the eye in Shakespeare Must Die. Max Crosbie-Jones unpicks the saga of the Thai film in light of a longstanding ban being overturned this year There’s a scene in Censor Must Die (2012), a documentary about film censorship in Thailand, in which an artist-filmmaker gets lost in the corridors of power.