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The Thailand Soft Power Art Panel has released its list of members, which now includes a new sub-committee on performing arts. The chairman of the committee is Seksiri Kunavong, a prominent art collector and CEO. He is the founder of CM Organizer, the Bangkok Sculpture Center, and has opened his own home as a museum (the Seksiri Kunavong House Museum).
It is interesting to note that the list of committee members,still, does not include any Thailand’s National Artists, but it does include two Silpathorn Artists: Natee Utarit and Pichet Klunchun.
How “art” will be driven as a Soft Power of the country under this mega-project is a critical question. And who will be the members of the National Arts Council of Thailand, which is to be established under this plan (with a budget of 20 million Baht – according to Rocket Media Lab, citing documents from the committee’s meeting 2/2566).
The 12 members of the Thailand Soft Power Art Panel are as follows:
- Seksiri Kunavong (Chairman) – Founder of CM Organizer Co., Ltd. (Public Company Limited)
- Kittiporn Chaleechan – President of the Thai Art Collectors Association
- Natee Utarit – Contemporary artist and winner of the Silpathorn Award in Visual Arts in 2019
- Pattaran Damrong – Lecturer at the Department of Dramatic Arts, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, and a qualified person in contemporary art
- Pisak Waikhamdee – Young blood performance art promoter
- Lakkana Kunavichyanont – Curator and former director of the Bangkok Art and Culture Center
- Sukonthip Nakkesom – Founder of Warin Lab Contemporary
- Takonkiet Viravan – CEO of The One Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. (Public Company Limited)
- Piangdao Jariyapan – Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM)
- Klunchun.- Dance and Performance artist and winner of the Silpathorn Award
- Alisa Phanthusak – Managing Director of Tiffany Show Pattaya Co., Ltd.
- Sirawat Saensom (Secretary) – Lecturer in the Department of Design Communication Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, and Executive Committee of the Contemporary Art Promotion Fund
Source: THACCA และ Rocket Media Lab
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