Pitchapa Wangprasertkul, Thailand

Born 1999 in Bangkok, lives and works in Bangkok

Pitchapa Wangprasertkul is a Thai performance artist whose practice explores power dynamics and the imbalances that shape thoughts, beliefs, and individual identities. She studied Communication Arts at Chulalongkorn University, majoring in Advertising with a minor in Psychology.

Wangprasertkul was introduced to performance art at the age of nineteen, when she was selected as a facilitator for Marina Abramovi?’s Abramovi? Method at the 2018 Bangkok Art Biennale. Observing the intense emotional responses of audiences actively engaging with the work became formative for her own approach to performance.

Since presenting her first performance in 2020, Wangprasertkul has developed participatory situations that examine how authority is produced, transferred, and destabilized. In her performances, she often constructs scenarios in which audiences are invited to empower themselves while she deliberately diminishes her own authority. Through this reversal, the audience is compelled to act, respond, and become implicated in the power relations unfolding within the work.

Beyond galleries and institutional spaces, Wangprasertkul frequently performs in sites marked by conflict and clashes of power, particularly in Thailand. Her work uses the encounter between artist, audience, and situation to investigate vulnerability, obedience, resistance, and the unstable boundaries between individual agency and collective structures.

Her performances have been presented at the Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Gallery VER, Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival, Turner Gallery in Tokyo, Indonesia Bertutur in Bali, and Undisclosed Territory in Central Java. In 2024, she presented her first solo exhibition, Don’t Cry at Work, at Gallery VER in Bangkok. She lives and works in Bangkok.