Welcome to Weekend Warrior, where we offer you a few ideas to kick-start your weekend of mayhem. Warriors, go forth.
Friday
FILM: Bassweight at the Space
Rocking out to dubstep on Friday nights, while a worthy endeavor in and of itself, can leave one drained in body and mind. If you’ve reached a point of nightlife saturation, but aren’t quite ready to part with the party fuel, consider recuperating by spending your Friday night watching a documentary about the club scene – or, rather, about the music that fuels it. Bassweight tracks dubstep’s early emergence in the UK, in the process providing an intimate narrative of the genre’s pre-Skrillex roots. If you’re interested in the origins of one of the modern day’s most popular musical movements, be sure to check this out.
6:30pm. THB150. The Space, Khlong San Market, above 7-11. Next to Hilton Millennium.
PERFORMANCE: Unwrapping Culture at 100 Tonson Gallery
I suspect that even if there weren’t social norms readily available for Pichet Klunchun to upset, he would have to invent some, just to give his work a sense of direction. As it stands, the iconoclastic Thai dancer and performance artist has plenty of mass culture against which to strive, a project he has most recently continued with Unwrapping Culture, in which he employs dance, multimedia displays and monologue to shear the wool from Thailand’s cultural sheep. An electric, hilarious and somewhat disturbing piece, Unwrapping Culture functions immaculately as both entertainment and social commentary.
7pm. THB800 for students, THB1,500 for everyone else. 100 Soi Tonson, Ploenchit Rd., Lumpini, Pathumwan, Bangkok, 10330 Thailand. BTS Phloen Chit station.
Saturday
BOOKS: Re:reading group at the Reading Room
Roland Barthes said that those who don’t reread stories are doomed to go on reading the same story forever, an assertion with which the literary adventures at the Re:reading group would most likely agree. The group offers a rare treat for Bangkokian bibliophiles: A guided tour of some of Thailand’s classic literary works. At each meeting, the group discusses classic works of Thai literature (which they have presumably read at least once before). This time around, the books up for discussion are M.R. Kukrit Pramoj’s “Four Reigns” and Thommayanti’s “Rom-chat.” Guest speakers Ajarn Artit Srijan and Ajarn Natthanai Prasannam will help set the discussion’s pace.
4pm. Free. The Reading Room, 2 Silom 19. BTS Surasak station.
DUBSTEP: Kode9 at Fish Club RCA
So, here’s the official one-two punch for this weekend: Head out on Friday night to watch Bassweight and learn about the pioneers of dubstep, then go to RCA on Saturday to observe one of those pioneers in the flesh. London-based Kode9 helped create what we now call “dubstep” back in the early 2000s, and though his era of greatest renown might have died along with the Bush White House, he nonetheless remains an obstreperous innovator, tweaking and cajoling sounds into permutations both lovely and odd.
10pm – ??. THB350. Fish Club (third floor of Cosmic Café) on RCA.
Photo: Kode9
