Abstract
After the 2014 Thai coup d’état, resistance movements have been continuous. Young people have played a significant role in these movements; in 2020, they established the People’s Party 2020, named after the People’s Party of 1932 that changed the national government system from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy. Before the 2020 election, activists of all ages, among them artists, were harassed and arrested. This paper considers how young visual and performing artists jointly established a Free Arts group in 2020 to encourage artistic colleagues to join the anti-coup movement and use art as an expressive instrument in tandem with the extant youth movement.
Presenters
Pasakorn Intoo-MarnAssistant Professor in Performing Arts, Department of Drama, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
THAI POLITICS, ANTI-COUP MOVEMENTS, ARTISTIC ACTIVISM
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