Between 7 and 8pm this Friday the TCDC’s on-site café Kiosk (6th Floor, The Emporium, BTS Phrom Phong) will be the stage for a performance of improvised ‘Butoh’ dance by Syvie (Syv) Bruzeau. ‘Butoh’ is a form of poetic, conceptual and typically slow dance that originated in Japan after the Second World War. To reserve… [more]

A Bangkok taxi ride is more than just a trip from A to B – it’s also a journey through the byways of Thai belief. Most taxi drivers here festoon their cabs with a hotchpotch of talismans, sacred icons, fresh flowers and pop culture bits and bobs. Sometimes its mere decoration, but usually it’s an… [more]

Since the late nineties, Chiang Mai-based artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook has shifted her focus from gender related print and sculptural installations to aesthetically arresting timebased videos featured in numerous international showcases. On view at French-Thai cultural festival La Fete, Rasdjarmrearnsook’s Two Planets (2007-8) is her reaction to Western art viewing and appreciation conventions. Captured against rural… [more]

Bangkok-based American photographer Cameron Wolf works as an advisor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), working in the field of HIV / AIDS prevention and treatment. Drawing parallels with the work of Diane Arbus, his third exhibition in Thailand is a playful yet poignant series of portraits that depicts players from Bangkok’s underground… [more]

Capital punishment: the harshest penalty the laws of the land can deliver. Just desserts dished up by the karma police – or simply state-sponsored murder? Whatever your moral stance, if you were condemned in Thailand before the advent of lethal injection in 2003, your stance would be: strapped to a crucifix, hands bound in a… [more]

In this duo exhibition, emerging artists Kwanchai Lichaikul and Trinnapat Chaisittisak create surreal landscapes inspired by the urban experience. Architects of the imagination, their intriguing structures and spaces play with the possibility and potentiality of 21st century living. Until APR 10 WHERE Numthong Gallery 72/3 Ari Soi 5 | Phahon Yothin Rd | BTS Ari… [more]

If the little things – your everyday ephemera – are what make a culture, Thailand is in trouble. That’s the overarching gist of this dinky little coffee table book, the opening pages of which find the author lamenting a fake plastic age in which synthetic foreign crap has usurped homegrown Thai forms. It’s not as… [more]

In conjunction with the Novotel Siam Square Hotel, Thomas Diego Armonia presents his first solo exhibition in Thailand. Hailing from Genoa and drawing influence from the Italian Baroque, Armonia’s distinct figurative style focuses on the female character. Set against the Parisian landscape, Armonia’s sensual idealized portrayals are seductive in their play of classicism and modernism…. [more]

This year’s Disney on Ice presents a medley of celebrations from around the world in a production called Let’s Celebrate! at Impact Arena (02-504-5050) from March 23 – 27. Over 50 Disney characters from Donald Duck to Mickey Mouse get festive with Chinese New Year, an UnBirthday Party with Alice and the Mad Hatter, a… [more]

The Thailand Creative & Design Centre (TCDC, 6th Fl. The Emporium Shopping Complex, 622 Sukhumvit 24, BTS Prom Phong, 02-664-8448; www.tcdc.or.th) looks at new approaches to eco-friendly design in the exhibition Everything Forever Now: Designs for a Sustainable Future, running until March 18.

The exhibition Somewhat Different threatens to challenge your view of furniture with a display from 67 European designers that attempts to “review traditional fixations”. It’s at the Crystal Design Centre (1420/1 Praditmanutham Rd, Klongjun, 02-101-5999) until March 13. There’s more info at www.goethe.de/thailand.

Winning photojournalism from the World Press Photo Exhibition 2011 will hang in CentralWorld’s lobby until March 8 as part of new Bangkok photo festival, Stream Photo Asia. Free daily guided tours will tell the stories behind the pictures. For more on the organisation visit www.streamphotoasia.com.

The French cultural festival La Fête continues at various venues until March 29 with a mix of theatre, music, circus, dance, art, cinema, food and fashion. On March 2 – 3, at the Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre For Dramatic Arts (B 400), the modern circus company Sacrés Français! share the stage with the Adrien M /… [more]

A 48 hour marathon of free artistic and cultural activities kicks off tonight at the Centerpoint Studio, at Soi La Salle (Sukhumvit Soi 105) out near BTS Bearing. We’re not quite sure what to make of Playground of Imagination, “a modern temple fair with a sustainable twist”, other than it sounds utterly bonkers. Here’s the… [more]