GHOST 2565: ANTHOLOGY

Janine Armin, Christina Li, Wirunwan Pitaktong and Pongsakorn Yananissorn (Editorial team)

English / Thai

2022
Published by Ghost Foundation and OPEN FIELD
Printed by Parbpim Printing
Bangkok, Thailand

12 x 18.5 cm, 224 pages, offset, glue bound, softcover
Edition of 500

Designed by Pam Virada

This anthology that accompanies the video and performance art series Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time features ten new stories in English and Thai by artists and writers that catalyze other subjectivities. The texts follow trails of stories to bring forth those in the margins and read their tales in congruity with the exhibition and performances. By reclaiming disinherited times and spaces—from mundane moments during a day outside to jungles of cyclical temporalities, landscapes, and languages—Anthology is an invitation to look into and outside oneself. The book’s own subjectivity performs a slow self-examination, be it with respect to a neighbour or voyeurship itself, to see how we become more visible in relation to others. Some subjects spiral in these stories, while others attempt to find a way out.

Structured narratives are complemented with texts that are almost spectral, pitting logical consequences against fragmented consciousnesses. Bodily sense returns only when the limits of language are reached, where one must confront protagonists’ choices. The book closes with a return to the familiar, to family, place, and subjecthood. A meander through a maze of yesterday’s lost love is followed by a grasping at order and tradition amidst a cacophony expectations. Dissipating and forming words become worlds; Ghost 2655: Anthology is an entry into gaps within overlapping narratives, seeking ways to invent and inhabit them with writing by Orawan Arunrak, Ivan Cheng, Uthis Haemamool, Travis Jeppesen, Phu Kradat, Li Shuang, Sophia Al Maria, Duanwad Pimwana, Sathit Sattarasart, and Emily Wardill.

SKY. LAND. WATER: SKETCHBOOK BY ALEX FACE

English / Thai

2022
Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY
Printed by SongpolPress
Bangkok, Thailand

15.5 x 10.5 cm, 320 pages, b/w, offset, otabind, softcover
Limited edition to 1,500 copies

Designed by Studio150

“Sketches, doodles, and things appearing in my old sketchbooks have taken my mind back to the moment when I was still experimenting and developing ideas, the moment when I first learned how to write my own tag, the moment when I drove out with a group of friends searching for a wall to spray paint on, the moment when I painted a character of a child in a rabbit costume for the very first time, and also many other moments in my work life that, without seeing them again on my sketchbooks, I might have forgotten them all completely.”

This book is published on the occasion of 20TH YEAR ALEX FACE from November 5 – December 18, 2022 at 127 Na Ranong, Bangkok.

12 COMMON HOUSE GECKOS AND A BUTTERFLY

English / Thai

Bangkok, Thailand 

2000 THB

Edition of 50 

Hand-bound by LIKAYBINDERY

“When I was younger, I always wondered how would a gecko catch one of these fast-flying flies and mosquitos to make a meal out of them? Upon discovering the amount and array of possible diets, I was in awe. I was in awe that in a city, such as Bangkok, that feels like a desert for other living things, there were still invisible networks of lives that were supporting one another — from fungi to trees, to insects to common house geckos, birds, mammals, and even me.”

This book is published on the occasion of A Lens to See the World Through at Art Basel Hong Kong 2022, May 27—29, 2022. 

Dusadee Huntrakul is a multi-disciplinary artist working across mediums of sculpture, ceramic, drawing, painting and text. Seeking human connections that extend across time, his works span the topics of mortality, archaeology, anthropology, economics, and socio-cultural issues. 

Sun: I think you are a strange and foolish species. You seem to think that you are the only ones in the universe, when there are billions of stars and billions of planets. You fight and kill each other over trivial things. But I still think there is some good in you, or else you would not be here. You have the potential to be great, but you must learn to work together and to respect all life.”

A conversation between Apichatpong Weerasethakul and the Sun, joined by artists, writers, and thinkers, that is generated by the artificial intelligence platform GPT-3.

This book is published to coincide with A Conversation with the Sun exhibition by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration with DuckUnit and Pat Pataranutaporn at BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY, May 28—July 10, 2023.

TABLES | FACTORIES

English / Thai

2022
Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY
Printed by Parbpim Printing
Bangkok, Thailand

16 x 22 cm, 152 pages, color, offset, autobind, soft cover with silver foil stamp

1120 THB

Edition of 700

The process of preparing this book began with looking at photographs of large meeting tables around which Chinese and Singaporean public officials gathered during the many Chinese government study missions to Singapore throughout the 1990s. While such images might seem unremarkable today, the appearance of former revolutionaries of the Maoist era as sedentary technocrats marks the historic emergence of a distinct political imaginary in a time when “the economy” was displacing class struggle as the primary subject of governance in China.

It was at the table that these technocrats, having extricated themselves from the masses, devised the concept of the socialist market economy to frame the economic reforms that were launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. As they insisted on the compatibility of the market economy with the prevailing socialist social contract, the reformers articulated their turn towards the market as a decision informed not by the “invisible” manner through which the market allocates its resources, but by the assumed transparency of its information flows, which they believed would make visible what the party-state had been previously unable to see.

Yet, to the extent that this process of “seeking truth from facts”, as the reformers put it, is founded upon a set of separations—the party-state from the masses, information from ideology, the economic from the political—what ultimately underwrites the total visibility apparently provided by the table is the concealment of that which must not be allowed to appear as information in order for the logic of the market to obtain: the exploitation of labour.

It is on this basis that the factory can be construed as the table’s forgotten origin and impenetrable interior, and the gate that circumscribes the compound the limit of the market’s capacity for making things visible. Designed to spatially contain industrial labour and hide their exploitation from the public sphere, the factory gate is as close as the technocrat would get, as seen during the factory’s opening ceremony, to the world of labour under a capitalist mode of production. In thus proposing a convergence between tables and factories and examining their respective regimes of (in)visibility across the contexts of Singapore and Reform-era China, this collection of images and texts seeks to understand how the seemingly disparate worlds centred around these two objects in fact call forth each other to produce our deeply unsettled contemporary condition—one where the recognition that accrues to visibility has replaced freedom from exploitation as the most that the people can ever demand after the revolution’s untimely end.

RIM I ริม I

The publication by Kornkrit Jianpinidnan is a collection of photographic films from the artist’s personal archive.

RIM reveals the transition of latent image techniques, with selected scanned snapshots taken by the artist who then independently worked for magazines. The publication offers glimpses of truth onto the artist’s thoughts of the days gone; on their substances and styles influenced by cultural interaction of the late 90’s to early 2000’s, as well as his memories to his family, friends and colleagues.

Edition of 300

870 THB

FEELING TOWARDS THE SUN

For FEELING TOWARDS THE SUN book, Tae Parvit invited his musician friend Thanart Rasanon to contribute music and stories. The result is a short journal about Thanart’s memory back in 10 years time when he started to form his aesthetic practice in music and got a chance to shape his present political point of view. Napisa Leelasuphapong combined text from Thanart and all works from Tae with adding some still shots from his video footages to make a new journey in a book form.

This book is published to coincide with FEELING TOWARDS THE SUN, a mini exhibition by Tae Parvit at BOOKSHOP LIBRARY from September 13–October 25, 2020.

30 x 10.5 cm, 20 pages, color, indigo inkjet, saddle stitch, softcover, edition limited to 100 copies, signed and numbered. Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY.

800 THB

A CONVENIENT SUNSET | A CONVENIENT HOLDUP

“There are approximately 10,268 7-Eleven stores in Thailand with an average of 11.8 million daily visitors (2019). 7-Eleven stores operate 24 hours per day and have become a common sight with the urban landscape” – Miti Ruangkritya

English, Thai

20 x 20 cm, 148 pages, color, offset thread sewn perfect bound, softcover; 20 x 20 cm, 196 pages, b/w, offset, thread sewn perfect bound, softcover

Published by 11C and BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Dominie Press. Book design by Setapa Prommolmard and Miti Ruangkritya

Edition of 200

2000 THB

COUNTING

Counting by Orawan Arunrak, an artist’s book in a form of a box. Each box contains a set of vocabulary cards with photos taken as journals from places the artist has visited, with drawings and sketches, archive of her working process. Including Migration Figures: Moving, Translating, Counting an essay related to the exhibition written by Ho Rui An. Translated by Judha Su.

Anurak’s work is largely inspired by her everyday life. Using tools like pencils, pens, paper, but also photography and the internet, she creates works that take the forms of drawing, painting and installation. Her practice is aimed at engaging in dialogue with local inhabitants in an attempt to merge the space of art and non-art. Repeatedly crossing national, cultural and spiritual borders, Arunrak’s work has examined likeness and difference within and between varied locations in both Asia and Europe where she has lived in recent years, and based on relationships she has with these places.

English, Thai

Box; 15.5 x 21.8 x 4.5 cm, b/w, offset, Card; 6.35 x 7.62 cm, 52 cards, color, offset, Leaflet; 14.8 x 21 cm, 24 pages, color, offset, soft cover, saddle stitched soft cover; Drawing; 14.8 x 21 cm, color, offset, Sandpaper No.3; 14.8 x 21 cm, Bubble wrap sheet; 14.8 x 21 cm

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Plan Printing Co. Ltd. Design by Manit Songserm

Edition of 250. Signed and numbered

1000 THB

SAVAGE GARDEN

1) SUNSET — Stills from video taken in the artist’s house in Bangkok. 2) LEAF — Line drawings series that artists made after a trip to a rainforest in the south of Thailand. 3) SAVAGE GARDEN SOUNDTRACK — Jay Vattanakuljaras and Tae Parvit create ambient music inspired from house, garden, sharp plants and dead trees.

English

29 x 21 cm (booklet), 10 pages, b/w, digital, loose bound, soft cover; 21 x 15 cm (book), 32 pages, color, digital, perfect bound, soft cover; 12.5 x 14 cm (DVD case)

Edition of 100. Signed and numbered

Published by Tae Parvit.

750 THB

The book is based entirely on true story. It is about a girl asking her grandmother to buy her a penis so she can play with her two brothers. The story spans to almost four decades and takes the entire family of three plus another one five year old boy to illustrate.

English

56 pages, color, 11 x 17 cm, hardcover

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Book design by Napisa Leelasuphapong.

ISBN 978-616-92743-9-1

Edition of 300

Unavailable

Transcript of donated conversations from contributors of second hand dialogue exhibition by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit at BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY on June 1-23, 2019.

960 pages, 1-color offset printing, 22.4 x 10.4 x 4.5 cm

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Book design by Setapa Prommolmard.

ISBN 978-616-92743-7-7

Edition of 800

Unavailable

THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK 

This page is intentionally left blank is a publication in accompanying the closing of the exhibition in the same title by the artist, Pratchaya Phinthong and the curator, Thanavi Chotpradit. This publication contains with an article written by the curator and images of an installation view. It comes together with the leaflet co-written by ‘tracing the dots’ participants, an activity as part of the exhibition, including writers, researchers, and university students from an art history department.

21 x 15 cm, 40 pages (with 1 leaflet), color, digital, twin loop bound, softcover

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Book design by Techit Jiropaskosol

ISBN 978-616-92743-6-0

Edition of 300

300 THB

Handwritten address and mailed by the artist.

English, Thai

Offset print on conqueror CX22 diamond white 100gsm paper, marker, stamps and staples, 14.5 x 21 cm; 83.6 x 59.2 cm

Open edition

1500 THB

Edited by Judha Su and Mi You

Storytellers Before Dawn is published as selected readings in relation to the idea of Ghost:2561 a video and performance art series curated by Korakrit Arunanondchai.

English, Thai

17 x 10 cm, 526 pages, b/w and color offset, thread sewn perfect bound, softcover

Published by Ghost Foundation and OPEN FIELD. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Book design Napisa Leelasuphapong

Edition of 1000

Unavailable

SATHORN SUNSET

Sathorn Sunset features sunset scenes taken in and around The Sathorn Unique Tower from January 2018. The luxury condominium began being built in 1990 but remains unfinished after the Asian financial crisis in 1997 put a halt on funding and construction. The tower was designed by architect turned real estate developer Rangsan Torsuwan. The 185m high tower makes use of exuberant Classical architectural elements, particularly Classical Order columns usually found in Greek and Roman architecture, which was in vogue during the economic wave of the early 1990s. Rangsan is generally credited as an architect who popularized this particular architectural style of Classical order columns in Thailand during the 1990s.

English

18.8 x 28.8 x 0.4 cm, 48 pages, color, offset, half-fold, softcover

Published by 11C and BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing

ISBN 976-616-92743-5-3

Edition of 300

1200 THB

RT/LEAFLET

RT_Leaflet is printed material from the company RootTech™. Consisting of a conversation between Nueng Topsound Bangplee and Tanat Teeradakorn about car audio modification culture in Thailand and how to shatter a windshield using sound. This conversation was recorded during the production of the Subcore-flex product. Nueng is the owner of Topsound BangPlee car audio installation shop and is one of the members who built the sub-woofer box to produce Subcore-flex. 

RootTech™ is a company founded and conceptualized by the artist, Tanat Teeradakron,  and its name implies nodes of botanical organism which resonates a contemporary condition people all share. This company is aimed to explore a mode of production, a notion of space, and human identity in relation to a digital technology.

English, Thai

83.3 x is 47.5 cm, b/w, offset

Published by BANGKOK CITY CITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Book design by Kawin Shanoprasith and Tanat Teeradakorn

Edition of 300

100 THB

KIRATI MEMORIAL

Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Chanchana Homsap and Chanan Yodhong Kirati’s Memorial. This book is published in commemoration of the opening ceremony of MUSEUM OF KIRATI at Soi Atthakanprasit Bangkok on 19th November 2017.

Thai, English

Offset print, 70 pages, b&w, color cover, 14.8 x 21 x 0.5 cm

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing

ISBN 978-616-92743-4-6

Edition 300

400 THB

THE MOUNTAIN CLIMBER: TWIMC

Part of To Whom It May Concern exhibition. Curated by Judha Su.

English

16 pages, 21 x 15 cm, b/w

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Book design by Nawin Nuthong

FLAVOUR OF THE DAY

“All the drawings in this book was a record of events, conversations, the way I saw and the way I thought on the evening of Tuesday 15th August 2017…I’ve collected 403 images from that night.” – Tae Parvit

English, Thai, Japanese

432 pp; 12.0 x 16.5 cm. Colour, offset printed on paper (70 gsm), thread sewn-glued

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Design by Tae Parvit

ISBN 978-616-92743-3-9

Edition of 1000

700 THB

In Love – In Babylon

Colour, Indigo digital printed on Wove paper, blue fabric and peacock feather, 64pp: 19.5 x 25.5 x 0.5 cm

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing

Edition of 50 + 4 AP

Unavailable

SHOUT OUT OR SHUT UP (?)

Judha Su, P9d, Liberate P, Patiwat Saraiyaem, Keiko Sei, Thatchatham Silsupan, Shout Out or Shut Up (?). During the opening weekend of To Whom It May Concern exhibition, parallel activities began with a talk discussion that also launched Shout Out or Shut Up (?) lyric book featuring P9d, Liberate P, Patiwat Saraiyaem and Thatchatham Silsupan. The event continued into music performance from HHEXCHEEK x Gamnad, Pisitakun Kuntalang, P9d, Liberate P and Patiwat Saraiyaem.

Thai, English

14 pages, 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Design by Kawin Shanokprasith and Grisana Eimeamkamol.

Edition of 300

120 THB

16 pages, 16 x 24 cm

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY

Edition of 800

300 THB

Unavailable

In the Water Lily Pond

He attempts to raise his voice cautiously and tries his utmost not to swallow the strong currents. He is only able to keep his body afloat. He soothes himself with the surrounding vivid colors. The muddy past terrifies him to move foreward. And the decadent present is suppressed under the still water. The only sound in the pond louder than any is a voice reminding him that ‘I am still alive’

English, Thai

Offset, VLS 120 gsm, 240 pages, 19.4 x 14.8 cm, hardcover

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Design by Pornslip Sakhakorn.

ISBN 978-616-92743-2-2

Edition of 500

Unavailable

Dream Property (2014 – ongoing) is a project that examines the nature of property development and its relationship to the city. In spite of Bangkok’s recent unsettled political situation, which has culminated in two military coups in 2006 and 2014, property development in the capital has continued to soar. A staggering 50,100 new condominium units are estimated to have been launched in 2014 while a further 35,000 units were launched in 2015 and 2016 (Colliers Forecast, 2014-16) The rapid development has come hand in hand with the expansion of city/s transit system, which includes the Bangkok Sky Train as well as the construction of a variety of major roads and canal transit system.

Concept and Editing: Miti Ruangkritya
Contributor: Yanyong Boon-Long, Pattapong Jantarach, Jittat Fakcharoenphol, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Pansit Torsuwan, all(Zone), Little Thoughts, Dhyan Ho, Apiwat Ratanawaraha

English, Thai

24 pages and 19 images, offset Print / Conqueror Wove (Brilliant White), 160gsm for Cover / Vent Nouveau V, 151gsm for Main Body / Matt Coated Paper, 160 gsm for Centre Spread, Half-Fold

Published by 11C and BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing, Design by Pat Laddaphan and Piyakorn Chaiverapundech

Edition of 100. Signed and numbered

Unavailable

EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM BANGKOK REAL ESTATE ADVERTISING

“The poetry book is partly a questioning to my own photographic practice. Naturally I work primarily with photography. However I found the compiled advertising slogan particularly interesting as it seems to mirror the aspirations and demand of city people…” – Miti Ruangkritya

English

144 pages and 1 image (b&w), 10.5 x18 cm, offset, thread sewn perfect bound, soft cover

Published by 11C and BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing

ISBN 978-616-92743-0-8

Edition of 300. Signed and numbered

400 THB

I WRITE YOU A LOT . PHOTOGRAPHIC SCREENWRITING SERIES

A compilation book of 58 photographs/screenplays. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit has selected photos taken during his travels between 2011-2016. Each image is paired with a one page screenplay which Nawapol re-imagines the scene.

English, Thai

364 pages, 13.5 x 19 cm., 14.0 x 19 cm., 14.5 x 19 cm, color, offset, perfect bound, softcover

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Design by slowmotion.

ISBN 978-616-413-489-8

Edition of 800

600 THB

A pocket sized art book printed on fine paper. This choose your own adventure catalog is printed in the occasion of MELO House exhibition.

English, Thai, Japanese

302 pages, 9.8 x 12.7 cm, color, offset, thread sewn perfect bound, hardcover

Published by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLLERY. Printed by Parbpim Printing. Design by Shake & Bake Studio.

Edition of 1000

Unavailable