Cambodia’s contemporary art scene may be in its infancy, but artists such as David Richards, who recently moved to live in Cambodia full-time after over a decade of annual visits, are challenging the Kingdom to look again. Sam Campbell caught up with him at his Phnom Penh studio.
Headlining this month’s Lakhoan Festival is a new work based on a traditional Cambodian folk tale. Mark Jackson talks with its director, Catherine Marnas, and its leading lady, Chumuan ‘Belle’ Sodhachivy.
It’s not always easy living the dream, even in laid-back Cambodia. Photographer Nathan Horton tells Nathan Green he really is going to start living his when the tourist season rolls back around.
It is not often that a dilapidated old colonial era building in a far-flung corner of the world serves as venue for an exhibition by one of the world’s most unique living artists.
Epic Arts has invited able-bodied and disabled artists to participate in SPOTLIGHT, a festival of inclusive arts. The organisers hope to change the way disability is perceived by participants and spectators alike. Words by Charis Shafer.
