Pan Daijing explores roughness and rawness by experimenting with noise as idea and material, in order for new sensations and energies to emerge. Often creating works within architectural interventions, for Ghost 2565, inspired by the emotional and historical intensity that reverberates underneath the city’s surface, her performance combines sound, movement, and other elements to evoke a haunting sonic, affective, and visual landscape that interacts with Bangkok as a site of contested forces.  

Pan references Walter Benjamin’s “Theses from the Philosophy of History” (1940), to focus on the moment one stares into the eye of history and meditate upon the collective amnesia imposed by those in power and the burden of failure under the guise of progress. Set in a location that stands as a reminder of one of many political and ideological shifts in the country, the environment in which the performance takes place is a generative interplay between performers, artist, audience, and now barren setting. The relational piece blurs the line between presentation and observation, all the while building up a form of shelter within and out of time in which anyone can get lost. 

Performer: Nitipat Pholchai, Paopoom Chiwarak

Vocals: Janice Lau

Bass player: Alin Charuamonchit

_{Commissioned by Ghost Foundation, Bangkok.}