Fashioning the Nation

Описание: TITLE: Fashioning the Nation: Fashionability, Female Cultural Agency and Thainess at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
SPEAKER: Eksuda Singhalampong

Eksuda Singhalampong (Lecturer, Department of Art History, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand) discusses Queen Sirikit of Thailand’s contribution to the construction of a Thai cultural identity through her invention of a national dress for women. This was in part achieved to reassert the Royal image and power within the Thai public consciousness following the revolution of 1932 that brought an end to absolute monarchy. In a sense, Queen Sirikit’s cultural project could be seen as a means to establish continuity with a suitable historic past. The project therefore commemorates the Thai monarchy’s dynastic paradigm through cultural patronage and re-centres the royal family within postwar Thai political discourse.

Part of the Trade, Ties, and Transformation symposium held on May 14 2016 at ILHAM Gallery.

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