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I would like to come back to the performance itself, with a few remarks.

- Even without reading the title of BD (“yes yes culture”), I felt immediately the same while watching the video.

- What surprised me was at the beginning of her gestures: It looks like the “okay” sign of sea divers … But … if you look carefully… the 3 first fingers and the hand are very straight … And the way Yok is moving her arm do to the gesture give us also a hint.

For me it’s very clear: It’s a half-wai, a broken wai, not just a sign like “everything is okay.”

And the way she bows her head (slightly) at the same time reinforces this.

- We can note that after she does a few real wais (or I should say “full wai” because we all know that wais in Thai culture are not really about … reality, right?)

- The link with the “yes yes culture” then is obvious with the movements of her head. Or are they the first symptoms of a seizure? Non.

- The convulsion: She goes on the ground. Here again we can see symbols of the “yes yes culture,” with the special position for women to pray, or to wai some important persons … that evolve in full convulsion.

One detail: She took off her glasses before. That’s a glitch that reveals the work to come.

I always felt that artistic performances must go beyond the simple fact of offering a (free) psychotherapy to the performer.

(We all know that performers, actors, actresses have had a difficult childhood.)

I mean: Where is the message, right? If there is a message, it’s of course much more interesting.

Apparently, I’m not alone to feel that there is something in this video, more than just a nice young Thai woman in front of a camera doing weird stuff.

And it’s certainly why we find Yok “interesting” if I may say. She’s not particularly “suay” from a plastic point of view. She’s interesting.

For me, the simple fact of a Thai woman who is able to express, in public, a rather strong critic of one the pillars of her culture/prison … is I think powerful.

And attractive.

Bon, enough talking.

To summarize: I’m impatient to see miss Yok’s future work.

She was to good to chase away, she still is.

Thanks for the clarification Maurice, but isn’t it a little different from: “The performance “was suddenly interrupted by this woman stealing the show,” says Maurice. “Nobody knew who she was, but she was to good to chase away.” What she’s telling us?” ??? …

While working on our contemporary theatre production Mother of Water- Mae Nam by the Khandha Arts’n'Theater company together with Visualantis, for the advocacy of HIV/Aids in the mekong region, which performed in Patravadi Theatre, we needed a test audience. So we chose to use the art market as a platform for the artists.

Our aim with our production was to work with any artist with or without experience. And in Thailand to get the most out of people you can better work with non-experienced performers who are (still) dedicated to learn and experience something new.

Yok the woman you see in the video, is one of the non-experienced performers, who is actually a shy and kreng jai girl.

During the development of our production Sonoko asked everyone to express their weak point. In the beginning it was hard to open up, but after strong self-development workshops directed by Sonoko Prow and the huge group we formed, people managed to get things out of themselves they never knew off. While Yok always kept in the background, she was never able to express herself. So she got a chance to show who she was on the Art market, and let herself loose, scream out her weak point …

She said she would try to do it, but she was not sure if she was able to make it.

Nobody of the group knew what we could expect, she completely did an improvisational appearance and performance. So also I did not know what was going to happen, I had no clue of her whole performance as well.

The music in the background is the music which is playing live during the performance (recorded live in the camera).

Her name is Thiphawan Wannamahin (Yok), and I heard that a friend of mine who attended to my workshops before (Mana Sirisillapa) took the opportunity and just finished a short film with her which will showcase at the Bangkok World film fest.

For sure there is more to come from Yok, she has a talent which is hard to find in Thailand.

I would like to add that it’s certainly difficult for an artist to convulse like that in public …

So I guess the task must be really difficult for a thai woman performer …

Like a steeplechase with shoes in lead.

So: respect.

Now the only solution to extinguish your (our) burning curiosity is to make Maurice talk.

But if he’s a good magician, he wouldn’t reveal his trick, right?

And this girl is definitely a striking trick.

Now that’s a Thai girl I’d die for. She’s a looker and not only equipped with an oversupply of intellect.

Pure power woman. Got more on her?