Pratchaya phinthong biography of william shakespeare

Pratchaya Phinthong (b.1974) creates situations as an invitation made to the visitor to share an experience with him - which often arise from the confrontation between different social, economic, or geographical systems.

His projects without any specific or pre-defined forms suggest a crack in which the spectators are invited to fill the gaps.

Pratchaya phinthong biography of william shakespeare

He builds a set, a fiction, or a process where he can test our perceptions. He proposes to his audience a story with multiple paths, combined with subjective perceptions. His projects are often constructed in a dialogue between the artist and the others, making the artist’s movement glide towards the social field.

Phinthong’s often open-ended projects intervene in global social and economic structures and engage directly with geographical and social contexts, trafficking in everyday meanings, hopes and troubles. In 2012, a new commission Sleeping Sickness (2012) for dOCUMENTA (13), which develops from Phinthong&