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Vasan Sitthiket<\/h3>\n

Thailand
\nSaturday, September 24th, 2011
\nVIVO Media Arts Centre, 7:30 PM<\/h6>\n

Biography<\/h4>\n
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Born at Nakhon Sawan Province,Thailand, Artist-activist for Justice\/Peace and Democracy Vasan has been performing since the 80s, demonstrating with the poor while asking for justice and a shared economy.<\/p>\n

“Art is weapon for destroy all idiot-greed power to sacrifice our life is the meaning to be an artist”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Vasan has been invited to join local and international Performance Art Festivals in Asia -Europe-America and Latin America.<\/p>\n

Active since the 1970s, Vasan’s works are often provocative and political in nature. One of his works was a performance art piece, involving fake rubber breasts and buttocks and a simulated rape of the entire nation of Thailand.<\/p>\n

In 2000, an exhibition of a new collection that included 50 paintings featuring Thai politicians and military officers in sexually compromising poses was cancelled by Chulalongkorn University, five days before it was to open.<\/p>\n

In 2005, he set up the Artist Party, a political art project that mocked the then-ruling Thai Rak Thai party and prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.<\/p>\n

At the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, he displayed some large-scale portraits of George W. Bush and other world leaders, created on canvas by using custom-made rubber stamps.<\/p>\n

Vasan’s media has also included drawings, woodcut prints, ceramic sculpture, installations and performances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Video<\/h4>\n