Thanavi Chotpradit // Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol // The Iconography of Protest in Bangkok

CAA Conversations

Join us for a conversation between Thanavi Chotpradit, a modern and contemporary Thai art historian, and Chanon Kenji Praepipatomongkol, curator at Singapore Art Museum, as they discuss “The Iconography of Protest in Bangkok." Thanavi Chotpradit is a lecturer in modern and contemporary Thai art history at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and a member of the editorial collective of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Her areas of interest include modern and Thai contemporary art in relation to memory studies, war commemoration, Thai politics and archival practices. Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol is a Curator at Singapore Art Museum. He holds a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan, with a focus on postwar art in the Philippines and Thailand. His latest research project explores technical dimensions of design as the basis for understanding new media ecologies of form, experience, and image in 21st century Thailand.