Ghost:2568 returned to Bangkok this year in its final edition — a sprawling, video and performance art series. Curated by Amal Khalaf, with returning curators Christina Li and Korakrit Arunanondchai, and program-building by Pongsakorn Yananissorn, the series once again pulled the city into a world of hauntings, echoes, and experimental frequencies.
As part of this cultural wave, The Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon welcomed Bonaventure (Soraya Lutangu) for a five-night Artist in Residence stay — turning part of the hotel into a temporary creative hideout for one of today’s most compelling experimental artists. For us, it wasn’t just accommodation; it was collaboration. A chance to let an artist reimagine the hotel not as backdrop but as co-conspirator.
Bonaventure is an artist whose work has traveled through institutional giants like MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, ICA London, ICA Miami, and underground anchors like Berghain. Her practice moves fluidly across sound, video, performance, club spaces, and immersive theatre — a blend of grief, resistance, memory, ecstasy, and sonic tension.
In the midst of Ghost:2568, her residency culminated in a one-night ambient listening session ‘Either Nor’ created exclusively for The Standard. It wasn’t a “set” so much as a low-lit, slow-unfolding sonic environment held behind a barely opened curtain. Guests, artists, musicians, and Ghost regulars packed the room — some sitting on the floor, some leaning into the walls — letting the sound shape the atmosphere around them. It felt private, charged, and quietly transformative.
Hosting Soraya wasn’t just an artistic gesture; it placed The Standard directly inside the Ghost ecosystem. For five nights, the hotel shifted from accommodation into incubation — a space where an international artist could think, experiment, drift, and create. A space where the boundaries between guestroom, studio, and performance dissolved in their own time.
Installation view, Black Friday (2016) by Sophia Al-Maria, Min Sen Machinery (MSM Building)
Installation view, SEXY ARCADE at Ghost2568 by IWANNABANGKOK©, Bangkok CityCity Gallery
Public Program, Ghost2568 × CONG Magazine - Curator Round Table In conversation with Amal Khalaf, Christina Li, Korakrit Arunanondchai, and Pongsakorn Yananissorn, moderated by Daniel Szehin Ho
Ghost:2568 has always been about more than presentation — it’s about connection, exchange, and the invisible currents between artists, audiences, and the city. Welcoming Bonaventure into our walls was our way of joining that movement and opening the hotel to the kind of cultural work that lingers long after the last attendee steps out.
And for us at The Standard, it’s exactly where we want to be — inside the conversation, part of the momentum, contributing to the city’s creative future one collaboration at a time.
All photos: Courtesy of The Artist, Ghost Foundation and OPEN FIELD.
