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Max Leach
ART Habens
state of globalisation within Thailand. This
became the leading concept for most of my
residency work, due to the obvious influence
and mimicking techniques. The making of
Occidentalism involved taking an obvious
aspect of their society and turning it on its
head, having to adapt to the environments
resources and shooting a series of products
that would be familiar to the spectators but
with subtitle differences, to convey the
attempted translation to successfully
Occidentalism’s origin initially begun as a
response to an artist residency in the village
of Sam Rit Thailand, being exposed to the
culture of rural Thailand it was a great way to
uncover hidden ideas and the contemporary
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