ARTIST

 

Theary Seng (Le Royal, Roland Neveu, Dec. 2009)

... a WANNABE ARTIST ! The next best thing... befriend these creative individuals.

 


I wish I had kept up my dancing... from New Year's celebration in Long Beach, 2010.  More beautiful photos by Kimsua Chay...


I am a huge fan of Cambodian artists and envy the talents and creativity of Leang Seckon, Sopheap Pich, Reahu, Chhim Sothy, Chath pier Sath, Sacrava, etc. My brother Daravuth is not bad either.  And the honorary Khmer, John Weeks, is illustrating tirelessly to educate the young using comics. On the vocal front, who can compare with the legendary Sin Sisamouth, jazz musician Prince Norodom Sirivudh, lyricist/singer Prince Sisowath Panara, tenor Khuon Sethisak, rapper praCh Ly, Dengue Fever...And dance, who can break a move like K.K. (Tuy Sobil) and his  breaking dancing club Tiny Toones?! And need I say much about the award-winning filmmaker Rithy Panh and his talented niece Bosba Panh?!

 

Theary Seng with John Pirozzi, Scott Stafford and Touch Chetha at CLA Studio, 14 April 2010
Theary Seng with the incredible cinematographer/director/producer and friend John Pirozzi, musician Scot Stafford, Touch Chetha of the popular hard rock band Dra Kha of the 1960s-70s at Studio CLA (Cambodian Living Arts) for last minute interviews on the making of Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll, a labor of love 5 years in the making expanding the globe and interviews with Cambodian royalty (Prince Sirivudh, Prince Panara, scholars/diplomats (Son Soubert, David Chandler, former Ambassador John Gunther Dean) and musicians/actors (Dy Saveth, Dengue Fever) - a brilliant film painting a different image of Cambodia not yet known to the world !! (Phnom Penh, 14 April 2010)

 


Dengue Fever of Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, directed by John Pirozzi; a great documentary (certain scenes filmed from my balcony on the riverfront during the Water Festival) I was fortunate to see when premiered in 9 Nov. 2007 at the Museum of Natural History in New York City (Photo: New York Times)


  • Cambodian Artists

     

    The View - naked apsara by Reahu
    The View - sensual apsara by controversial REAHU (also this site's excellent webmaster and Theary Seng's IT tutor).


    artist Sopheap Pich Cycle
    Sopheap Pich's world famous installation.


    Chath pier Sath and Theary Seng at Exhibition Opening of Chath's Work French Cultural Center
    Artist/Poet Chath pier Sath, Theary Seng at his solo exhibition.  Packed house, including French Ambassador and wife (CCF, 28 Jan. 2010).


    artist Leang Seckon, Fleur and Theary Seng (Cambodia International Film Festival, 28 Jan. 2010)
    Artist/Singer Leang Seckon (especially of the Rubbish Project), Fleur and Theary Seng at the Cambodia International Film Festival, 28 Jan. 2010.

     

    Theary Seng's family illustrated by artist Chea Vuthea, April 2010
    Young artist Chea Vuthea showing off his drawings with amazing likeness to the photos I've given him!  Please contact Ms. Sivnin EAM if you'd like to have Vuthea draw from your photos.  More images...

     


    The brilliant humor of talented Bun Heang Ung (aka Sacrava).

     


    I remember regretting not purchasing in time one of young Oeur Sokuntevy's coffee canvases.

     

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    Linda Saphan is a talented, brilliant friend, not to also mention a new mother and married to the very cool filmmaker John Pirozzi.



    Theary Seng, Roland Neveu, Marc Eberle, Daravuth Seng, Jenny Bombaraso-Brady at FCCC

    In celebration of Jenny Bombasaro-Brady's birthday, Theary Seng with artist Daravuth Seng, filmmaker Marc Eberle, photographer Roland Neveu (FCC Phnom Penh, Dec. 2009).


    Photographer Heng Sinith and Theary Seng at Memphis Pub.
    Talented photographer Heng Sinith whistling at Bona's Memphis Pub (Phnom Penh, Oct. 2005).


    praCh and team after Emmy wins, San Diego, 26 June 2010
    The inspirational Cambodian-American rapper praCh Ly and dear friend (Photo: Stephen Carr/Press Telegram); 2 Emmy wins for RESIDUE (Photo: praCh; San Diego, 26 June 2010)


    legendary Quincy Jones, tenor Khuon Sethisak, Theary Seng (Phnom Penh, 2005)
    Legendary Quincy Jones, tenor Khuon Sethisak, Theary Seng at DCM Mark Storella's residence (Phnom Penh, 2005).

     


    Anne Bass and Sokvannara "Sy" Sar (Vanity Fair article/photos).  I was mesmerized at his performance at Chaktomuk Theatre as part of the new US Embassy inauguration week in 2005 as well as the documentary film premiering at the French Cultural Center.

     

  • Non-Cambodian Artists

     

    Theary Seng and Detlev Buck after party of premiere Same Same But Different at the Chinese House
    German film director Detlev Buck and Theary Seng at the after-party of Same Same But Different premiere (The Chinese House, 19 Dec. 2009).



    Theary Seng at Same Same But Different film premiere in Phnom Penh with producere Claus and Production designer Udo Kramer
    In front of CINE LUX where SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT had its Cambodia premiere. Sok Leang, Theary Seng, producer Claus Boje, production designer Udo Kramer, Uncle Ani Seng from Toulouse, Daravuth Seng. (19 Dec. 2009, photo by Jenny Bombasaro-Brady).


    Theary Seng, Detlev Buck, David Kross, Claus Boje, Marc Eberle of Same Same But Different move Dec. 2009 Phnom Penh
    Theary Seng enjoying dinner at a Phnom Penh beer garden with SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT crew (Marc Eberle, director Detlev Buck, producer Claus Boje, actor David Kross, etc.) and Marie Naumann of Jewish Museum (Berlin), a few days after premiere, 22 Dec. 2009.



    Legendary actress Mia Farrow (Dream for Darfur) and Theary Seng greeting over 150 bulky armed military police with bouquets of lotus flowers as a crowd of journalists and Cambodian human rights community look on (at entrance to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Jan. 2008).



    Amazing singer and humanitarian, U2's Bono, and Theary Seng at press conference prior to P-8 Rock Concert (Rostock, Germany, June 2007).


    Matt Dillon and Theary Seng at Ponlork Restaurant (Sept. 2007)
    The very talented and well-read
    Matt Dillon, Theary Seng, Michael Hayes  and the all too-young staff of Ponlork Restaurant (Phnom Penh, Sept. 2007).

     


  • Theary Seng's Calligraphy

     

    My strand of claim to being an artist is my calligraphy of millennium ago.

     

    Theary Seng Hotel Le Royal (photo by Roland Neveu, Dec. 2009)
    The wannabe artist escapes often to Hotel Le Royal for receptions/meetings and the Elephant Bar, when Cambodia becomes too insane, to contemplate why she didn't take up the life of a calligrapher or a contemplative in South Africa's Drakensberg. (Dec. 2009, Roland Neveu).

     


Theary's BLOG

Tuol Sleng Commemoration; Public Forum on Advent of Duch's Verdict Hearing, 23 July 2010


Theary Seng comforting a woman from Takeo whose eldest brother was killed in Tuol Sleng in 1977 (Sunday commemoration at Tuol Sleng, Sunday, 25 July 2010).  Photo: HENG Chivoan
Victims Commemoration at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Sunday 25 July 2010 on t [ ... ]



REACTIONS to VERDICT OF 19 YEARS (35 minus 5, minus 11) for DUCH, commandant of TUOL SLENG
Ms. Hong Sa Vath who lost a relative at Tuol Sleng and both her parents to the Khmer Rouge and who courageously went public with the fact that she was raped by the Kh [ ... ]