Capital Complex, a tent set up outside the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, could be mistaken for a tourist information booth, featuring a map of Bangkok. But in fact it’s an art installation by Tanat Teeradakorn, and the map shows sites that certainly aren’t promoted by the tourist board: the locations of violent clashes that took place during the crackdown on red-shirt protesters in 2010. It also features the text “TRUTH TODAY”, which was the English-language title of the TV discussion show ความจริงวันนี้, presented by several of the protest leaders at the time.
Capital Complex is similar to Pisitakun Kuantalaeng’s 10 Year project, which also featured maps documenting the violence of 2010. It’s part of the city-wide Ghost:2568 exhibition, whose slogan this year is Wish We Were Here (หากเราได้อยู่ด้วยกัน).
Ghost:2568 runs from 15th October to 16th November. (2568 in the Buddhist Era calendar is the equivalent of 2025.) This year is the final Ghost event; the first, Ghost:2561, took place in 2018.
Ghost:2568 runs from 15th October to 16th November. (2568 in the Buddhist Era calendar is the equivalent of 2025.) This year is the final Ghost event; the first, Ghost:2561, took place in 2018.
