Bangkok Art and Culture Centre has opened the 15th edition of its annual performance-art programme, with a three-month run built around the theme of “Equality” and a first set of performances already underway this weekend.
BACC is one of central Bangkok’s easiest places to drop into for contemporary culture, but this programme is more specific than a normal gallery visit. Performance Art Project #15 brings live performance into the centre’s fourth-floor studio and gives artists room to interpret one shared social theme in very different ways.
The official BACC description says the project is designed not only to present performances, but also to create space for creative exchange, discussion and knowledge-sharing between artists and audiences. That makes the programme useful for people who want to see the city’s contemporary arts scene while it is actually developing, rather than only viewing finished objects in an exhibition.
The 15th Performance Art Project is BACC’s 2026 multi-month programme for contemporary performance. It runs from 11 September through 29 November at the Studio, 4th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
This year’s umbrella subject is Equality. BACC says artists are encouraged to interpret that idea broadly, using different performance forms to explore inequality, identity, memory and social experience. The project combines work developed with established artists, a piece selected through the PAP open call, and later collaboration with the Bangkok Theatre Network.
For visitors, the useful point is that PAP15 is not one continuous show. It is a season of separate performance blocks, so the date you choose determines what you actually see.
The first production is ขออย่าให้…เธอกล่าว from The Manifestations of the No-Country, scheduled for 11–13 September and 18–20 September 2026.
BACC describes the work as exploring women’s bodies, memory, motherhood and the history of being a woman in society. It is created and performed by a group of Thai artists including Sukanya Piansri Jiwaphanchai, Kanyarat Yingsuwanchaikul, Patipol “Miss Oat”, Palita Sakulchaivanich and Nicha Buranasamrit.
That makes this weekend the first chance to see the 2026 programme in action. If you are reading this after 13 September, the same opening work returns for another block from 18–20 September.
BACC’s project brief treats equality as a starting point rather than a narrow instruction. The centre says the goal is to create an ongoing conversation through contemporary performance and to let artists translate the theme through movement, sound, theatre and other forms.
The first work approaches it through gender, embodiment, memory and motherhood. The October selection takes a very different route, using voice, music, poetry, experimental sound, moving image and physical movement to express what BACC calls the “sound” of inequality in Thai society.
That variety is what makes the season potentially interesting even for people who do not normally follow performance art: you do not have to commit to a single artistic style for three months.
The next named work is 19Hz Mythity Mistic by Chiang Mai artist Supamok Silarak, scheduled for 23–25 October 2026. BACC says the piece combines singing, music, songs, poetry, experimental audio, moving image and bodily movement.
The season then expands into Bangkok Theatre Festival 2026, with PAP15 listing festival dates on 14–15, 21–22 and 28–29 November. BACC says the theatre-network collaboration is intended to bring a wider range of contemporary performing arts into the project’s final stretch.
If you cannot make the September performances, those later blocks mean the story does not expire this weekend; the programme remains a current cultural option through late November.
For travellers, I would treat PAP15 as an optional culture layer rather than a must-see landmark. For Bangkok residents and repeat visitors, it is more interesting: a chance to follow one theme across several very different live works over three months.
Verification rule: checked 12 September 2026. Performance times, ticketing and capacity are event-specific and can change; the newest BACC event notice wins.