End of Semester Presentations

Another Semester came to an end and, in time honoured style, with research in progress presentations. No exhibition to report this time mainly due to disruptions caused by political crisis. Never mind. Three students—Milla, Ped and Nooknik—brought their time with us to a close with terrific presentations of complex, rich and intriguing practice-based research projects. For the others, much material thinking and intellectual labour was in evidence. Pete's explorations of the production of masculine subjectives makes ingenious use of surrealist and collaborative methods. Ting Ting's inquiry into the Thai-Chinese community cleverly combines storytelling, visual-anthropologically inspired and conceptual photography. Micky is continuing to deepen his auto-ethnographically-inspired investigation of colour and language, Bo has extended here collaborative-community focused interventions and enriched these with ideas from relational aesthetics. And finally, Jan (our guest from Design Management) set out her typo visual expirations of the commercialisation of Thai Buddhism. Video, painting, collage, writing, ceramics, drawing, photography and typography all on show. A very satisfying and interesting day of listening, looking and discussing. Thanks to our internal assessors Ajarn Teema Muekthong and Ajarn Helena Pitko and our eternal external, Dr Brian Curtin.