september 16–30, 2016

Books

  • Philip K. Dick, The Zap Gun
  • Philip K. Dick, The Simulacrum
  • Philip K. Dick, The Unteleported Man
  • Philip K. Dick, Lies, Inc.
  • Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World
  • Christine Chia & Joshua Ip, eds., A Luxury We Cannot Afford: An Anthology of Singapore Poetry
  • Philip K. Dick & Ray Nelson, The Ganymede Takeover
  • Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer
  • Philip K. Dick, Nick and the Glimmung
  • Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary
  • Italo Calvino, Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings, translated by Martin McLaughlin
  • Vladimir Nabokov, The Enchanter, trans. Dmitri Nabokov

Films

  • Antonia, directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
  • Ladies They Talk About, dir. Howard Bretherton & William Keighley,
  • Paisà (Paisan), dir. Roberto Rossellini
  • Anomalisa, dir. Charlie Kaufmann & Duke Johnson
  • Císařův slavík (The Emperor’s Nightingale), dir. Jiří Trnka
  • Kybernetická babička (The Cybernetic Grandma), dir. Jiří Trnka
  • Ruka (The Hand), dir. Jiří Trnka
  • Tsukiji Wonderland, dir. Shôtarô Endô

Exhibits

  • “Northern Land, Southern Seas,” Tang Gallery
  • Angkor Panorama Museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia

calvino in new orleans 

“In short, this is a place that would make you shoot yourself; the only thing to do is act like the Italian professor at the local university, a young man called Cecchetti, about whom I have no idea whether he’s any good as a literary critic, and who in his opinions is very conservative (‘I would not send my children to school with black kids, but not for racial reasons, you know, only for social reasons: the blacks all belong to the lower classes’), but he is someone who does the only intelligent thing to be done to justify the fact of living in America: he plays the stock exchange. Spending the mornings at the local branch of Merrill Lynch, Fenner, Pierce and Smith, following on the ticker-tape the dealings on the New York stock exchange, the fluctuations on the electronic noticeboard, studying the right moment for buying and selling, with the tele-printer in the room displaying the latest news on which to base your dealings, studying the ups and downs of all the major American firms, reading the Wall Street Journal the minute it arrives, that is the only way to live the life of a big capitalistic country in a way that is not passive, it is in fact the real democratic aspiration of America, because even if it does not give you any chance of influencing events, other than speculation on the financial markets, nevertheless it keeps you plugged into the mechanism in its most advanced and active area, and requires constant attention – in this country of frighteningly local and provincial interests – to the whole system.”

(Italo Calvino, “American Diary 1959–1960,” in Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings.)

september 1–15, 2016

Books

  • Philip K. Dick, Eye in the Sky
  • Philip K. Dick, The Game-Players of Titan
  • Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney Or How We Got Along after the Bomb
  • Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
  • Halldór Laxness, Under the Glacier, translated by Magnus Magnusson
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Primitive
  • Nicholson Baker, The Fermata
  • Terre Thaemlitz, Nuisance: Writings on Identity Jamming & Digital Audio Production

Films

  • Chandu the Magician, dir. William Cameron Menzies & Marcel Varnel
  • Daisy Kenyon, dir. Otto Preminger
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, dir. Robert Aldrich
  • Into the Abyss, dir. Werner Herzog
  • Unga Sophie Bell (Young Sophie Bell), dir. Amanda Adolfsson
  • They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, dir. Sydney Pollack
  • Film Socialisme, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Ljubavni slučaj ili tragedija službenice P.T.T. (Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator), dir. Dušan Makavejev
  • Kailash – Pilgerfahrt zum Thron der Götter (Kailash: Pilgrimage to the Throne of the Gods), dir. Frank Fiedler & Florian Fricke
  • Storia di un riparatore (The Repairman), dir. Paolo Mitton
  • Mia madre, dir. Nanni Moretti

Exhibitions

  • Lanna Folklife Museum, Chiang Mai
  • Chiang Mai Historical Centre, Chiang Mai
  • Chiang Mai National Museum, Chiang Mai
  • “720th Year Chiang Mai Then ’Till Now,” Ching Mai House of Photography and Photographic Art
  • “The Serenity of Madness: A Selected Survey of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Works,” MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai
  • “Feeling the 1990s: Contemporary Art from Thailand and Its Neighbours from the Pipitmaya Collection,” MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai
  • “Chalongdej Kuphanumat: Spirit – Universe,” Chiang Mai University Art Center
  • “Aeta Dhammasil: Buddhist Art Exhibition 4th,” Chiang Mai University Art Center
  • “Unseen Siam: Early Photography 1860–1910,” BACC
  • “Pratuang Emjaroen: Traces and Trails,” BACC
  • “Trirat Sriburin: Building,” People’s Gallery, BACC
  • “Korakrit Arunanondchai: 2012–2555, 2556, 2557,” Jim Thompson Art Center

august 16–31, 2016

Books

  • Kenneth Goldsmith, ed., I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
  • Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, translated by Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey
  • Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
  • Angela Carter, Fireworks
  • Maeve Butler, ed., For Tomorrow For Tonight: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Yuri Herrera, The Transmigration of Bodies, trans. Lisa Dillman
  • Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
  • Cyril Wong, The Lover’s Inventory
  • Pooja Nansi, Love Is an Empty Barstool
  • Geoff Dyer, The Search
  • Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
  • Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
  • Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd, trans. Christina MacSweeney 
  • Geoff Dyer, The Colour of Memory
  • Philip K. Dick, Dr. Futurity
  • Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

Films

  • Queen of the Desert, directed by Werner Herzog
  • The Mummy’s Hand, dir. Christy Cabanne
  • Weiner, dir. Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg 

Exhibits

  • “Douglas Diaz: Surrender,” Serindia Gallery, Bangkok
  • “Manit Sriwanichpoom: Fear,” Kathmandu Photo Gallery
  • “Manit Sriwanichpoom: Fear,” Tang Contemporary Art
  • “Manit Sriwanichpoom: Fear,” H Gallery
  • “Gary Carsley: Scenes from the Life of Paris,” H Gallery Project Space
  • “Pam Virada: Three-Cornered World,” Tentacles
  • “Sutthirat Supaparinya: Ten Places in Tokyo,” Gallery Ver
  • “Nukoon Panyadee: My Journey,” Sathorn 11 Art Space