Mon, 12/05/2011 - 05:00 — Anonymous "Primitive," the newest multimedia art
installation by award-winning Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasuthakul,
wasn't a contrived project. Now showing at Bangkok's Jim Thompson House
until February 29, 2012, it's actually the third artistic expression to come
out of an unplanned trip Apichatpong took to Nabua, a tiny village in
northeast Thailand, in 2008.Music videos, sound installations and light
experiments collected during his journey all represent a rarely discussed
piece of history he only discovered by speaking with village elders.In the
1960s, the Thai government set its sights on Nabua's communist insurgents --
who also happened to be farmers -- and sent forces in to drive them out,
ushering in two decades of military control. read more
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