An Inclusive Litany

3/10/98

An article in a Bangkok newspaper noted that Thailand lagged far behind the West in performance art owing to Thais' cultural inhibitions. Nonetheless, the article made brief mentions of one female artist named Mink who coats the floor with toothpaste and wallows in it to represent the occasional need to wriggle out of difficult situations, and a 1960s piece by performance art luminary Inson Wongsam, who sculpted an elephant out of a block of ice by precision urination.