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Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time
Chantana Tiprachart, 12 October - 13 November 2022

Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time: Chantana Tiprachart

Past exhibition
Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time, Chantana Tiprachart
Assessing the ever-changing dynamics of Thai culture from high to low, as well as the forces that dictate and frame these narratives, telling stories from the margins of Isaan has always been a part of Chantana Tiprachart’s practice. Soo-Kwan is a ceremony in the region meant to summon a Kwan, a spiritual and metaphorical force (can be compared to a muse) of courage and livelihood to return to the body. A Kwan is a spirit that leaves the body when a person is frightened, gripped with fear, or traumatized, the person is alive but only physically. A Mor lam song sung throughout the work traces Issan’s history, telling tales from forced assimilation to the purging of communists with messages of disobedience passed down through rhyme and rhythm to reinvigorate the spirit. SOO-KWAN2022 is a look at what is overexposed, and underexposed and what remains in between in the Isaan region of Thailand.
 
 

 

About Ghost

 

Ghost is a video and performance art series that takes place in Bangkok, Thailand.

Following Ghost:2561(October 11–28, 2018) curated by Ghost co-founder Korakrit Arunanondchai, the second edition Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time curated by Christina Li runs from October 12 to November 13, 2022 at venues throughout Bangkok. Ghost 2565 highlights untold stories of figures and places caught in the chasms created by the incohesion and tensions of contemporary life. A response to the specific context

of Bangkok, Ghost 2565 assembles multivalent presents, pasts, and futures that attempt to define a phantasmagorial city in resistance to homogenous narratives. The subtitle is translated from the line “vivre sans temps mort” spray-painted on a wall of the Sorbonne in Paris in May 1968, pointing to the collective state of comatose compliance in the face of capitalism when society had become a monstrous accumulation of spectacles and commodified experiences. Confronted with the totalizing power of representation, how might we disrupt the forces that lull us into empty existence?

 

 

This second edition occupies the glitch produced by desynchronized space and time and the conflicting visions of an amorphous city in flux. From within Bangkok's fabric, Ghost 2565 forges a space of mutual learning by gathering perspectives from established and emerging artists and practitioners from Thailand, the wider region, and beyond connected through shared urgencies and struggles across temporalities and geographies. Parts of the exhibition take place in formerly deserted places in the city’s historical center, where hegemonic forces that ushered in modern Thailand continue to haunt present-day realities, and dormant futures. The triennial series inspires audiences to establish and inhabit existing frameworks toward other possible knowledge and futures and yield new forms of living. In searching for alternative narratives that reside in the crevices, this multidisciplinary platform catalyzes a collective act to reclaim disinherited time and space to explore the subjectivities, untold stories, and shared visions that might emerge.

 
  • Ghost2565 (Official site)
  • EN Press Release
  • TH Press Release

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