Context/Network: Korakrit Arunanondchai and Ghost2568
This panel brings together artist Korakrit Arunanondchai and curator Amal Khalaf. We will take Ghost, a series of video and performance exhibitions in Bangkok, as a case study to discuss how local and regional contexts align or diverge from international networks. Co-founded by Arunanondchai, Ghost will launch its third and final edition in late 2025, curated by Khalaf. We will also discuss Arunanondchai and Khalaf’s involvement in artistic practice alongside their curatorial work.
Speakers:
Korakrit Arunanondchai – Artist, Thailand
Amal Khalaf – Co-Curator Sharjah Biennale 16, Director of Programmes Cubitt Gallery, London
Amal Khalaf’s participation is kindly supported by the National Arts Council.
Moderated by:
Wong Binghao (Bing) — Curator, Editor, Writer
Korakrit Arunanondchai – Artist, Thailand
A visual artist, filmmaker and storyteller, Korakrit Arunanondchai often works with time based media
including video , sound and performance to create works that prioritize emotions over language and
linearity. For him, time is a medium that is located within the human flesh and the gathering of human
bodies.
Arunanondchai is an avid collaborator and has continuously collaborations with many artists including Tosh Basco, Alex Gvojic and Aaron David Ross.
In early 2018, Arunanondchai co-founded Ghost, a time based media festival that happens every 3 years in Bangkok. He curated its inaugural series, Ghost:2561, during October 11–28, 2018.
Arunanondchai’s works have been exhibited in numerous venues, including his recent installation
“nostalgia for unity”(2024) at Bangkok Kunsthalle, Bangkok, and “Sing Dance Cry Breath” (2024) at Museum MACAN, Jakarta, which marks his first major institutional exhibition in Indonesia.
Arunanondchai has held solo exhibitions at various institutions including Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de
Janeiro, The Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), Belfast, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Canal Projects, New York, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Kunstverein Hamburg, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Museu Serralves, Porto, Secession, Vienna, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, S.M.A.K., Ghent, UCCA, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, New York.
He has been included in numerous international Biennales and group exhibitions including The Open
World, Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai, Connecting, Kanal Pompidou Centre, Brussels, My Rhino is not a
Myth, The 5th edition of the Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania Au-delà: Rituals for a new world, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, Ultra Unreal, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Red Light Green Light: Intimacy, desire and tension (In the Realm of the Senses), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Mountain/Time, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, Let The Song
Hold Us, FACT, Liverpool, Sweet Lust, White Cube, Paris, Kathmandu Triennale 2077, The 13th Gwangju
Biennale: Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju, The Yokohama Triennale 2020, Garden of Six Seasons,
Para Site, Hong Kong, The Dhaka Art Summit 2020, Singapore Biennial 2019, Every Step in the Right
Direction, Singapore, Performa 19 Biennial, New York, Asian Art Biennial, Taichung, Taiwan Transformer, 180 The Strand / The Vinyl Factory, London, 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice, Future Generation Art Prize 2019, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kiev, Ukraine), Baltic Triennial XIII, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnus, Biennal of Moving Images 2018 curated by Andrea Bellini and Andrea Lissoni,Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneve, Geneva, SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Seoul International Media Art Biennale, KW, The Fire is Gone But We Have The Light, with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca
Amal Khalaf – Co-Curator Sharjah Biennale 16, Director of Programmes Cubitt Gallery, London
Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist who serves as Director of Programmes at Cubitt (2019–present) and is also co-curating Sharjah Biennial 16 (February–June 2025), in the UAE and the Ghost 2568 (October – November 2025) in Bangkok, Thailand. Amal Khalaf served as the Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries (2009–2023) and is now Curator at Large and Advisor for Public Practice, where she shaped the Civic programme and commissioned over 50 long term, collaborative projects. There and in other contexts she has developed residencies, exhibitions and collaborative research projects at the intersection of arts and social justice. Projects include the Edgware Road Project and Centre for Possible Studies (2009-2013), Support Structures for Support Structures (2021), Radio Ballads (2019–2022) and Sensing the Planet (2021). She curated the Bahrain Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and co-directed the Global Art Forum at Art Dubai (2016). She is a trustee of Mophradat, Athens, and not/nowhere, London, and a founding member of the GCC art collective. She has authored several published essays and recently has co-edited publications including Vertical Atlas (ArtEZ, 2022) and How We Hold: Rehearsals for Art and Social Change (Serpentine/Koenig, 2023).
Wong Binghao (Bing) — Curator, Editor, Writer
Wong Binghao (Bing) is a writer, editor, and curator currently based in Singapore. They are the editorial and creative director of 5G Bing, an internet grimoire.