In a time of displacement, rupture and loss “Ghost 2568: Wish We Were Here” is a song for human and non-human survival within the ever shrinking spaces of freedom in our cities. A meeting place where our deepest yearnings for each other, for lost places and ways of being can take shape and find rest, Ghost:2568 traces the edges of Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river and explores our entanglements with each other, the worlds we want to live in and the messy, unruly and ungovernable ways we bring those worlds about.

Violence is folded within narrow views and limited perspectives. To cultivate multidimensional thinking, Ghost offers spaces to commune to gather in rebellion, joy and shared heartbreaks. Ghost becomes a way to be, a way to do things, floating above and through things, having a distanced, more wild perspective. Bringing together artists, fashion collectives, dancers, poets, musicians, neighbours, and metaphysical practitioners to surface genealogies and trajectories of Ghost thinking. Like an overflowing river remembering where it is supposed to flow. Ghost:2568 is offered as a praxis or a methodology, a summoning, to think about the place of performance, video sound and voice through concepts of community, personal and collective histories, power relations and gender, and the formation or lack of collective political imagination.

Curated by Amal Khalaf with guest curators Christina Li, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Pongsakorn Yananissorn.