Namkheun Manifesto
Artistic Drirector | Self-publishing
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Thai, English
2021
Bangkok, Thailand
Published by Namkheun
10.5 x 29.7 cm, b/w and color, offset, staple and loose bound, softcover
Designed by Lita Chala-adisai
Namkheun Manifesto is a six-part translation project. Each part comprises a translation of a manifesto that gives us the ooh ah ah sensation, and a corresponding written piece which addresses the specificity of the translated manifesto as well as our own translating act.
For this collection, it consists of four booklets including:
1. The Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century
2. Queer Nation Manifesto
3. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
4. The Digital Humanities Manifesto
This project is supported by DC Collection
I Suppose It Is Frost On the Ground
Graphic Designer
Thai, English, partial Simplified Chinese
2021
Bangkok, Thailand
Published by Namkheun
20 x 26.7 cm, 71 pages, b/w digital PDF file, Eyelet punch binding
Designed by Lita Chala-adisai
It was a photo of a tiny piece of paper posted on Facebook in early February 2021 scribbled,
‘a raindrop caged awaits a raging storm. With love and faith,’ from a letter written by Thai human rights activist and lawyer, Anon NAMPA, after he and his comrades were denied bail after several attempts. It was these heaps of paper, letter, and social media post ‘by’ and ‘for’ detained activists. Even though we do not know exactly what to do with them, we decided to go into the storm, taking literary clues as a compass.
Derived from Anon NAMPA’s powerful utterance, ‘A raindrop caged awaits a raging storm’ (ขังฝนเม็ดเดียวเขาจะเจอกับห่าฝน) is a translation project of words circulated during the detention of political activists from 2020 to 2021. Initiated by ซอย | soi, a platform for writing, editing, and publishing in the expanded field, in collaboration with Namkheun Collective, the team selected, translated, and edited words from political activists delivered during 2020-2021. ‘A raindrop caged awaits a raging storm’ is not a corpus, but moments of utterance to be bound up with others. I suppose it is frost on the ground, a project by Namkheun Collective, is its first iteration.
I suppose it is frost on the ground is a collection of excerpts and textual products that emerge from the hostile climate of Thai politics. These are texts taken from prison letters and visitation notes. These are texts written as everyday utterances which do not necessarily evoke the rhetoric of democracy.
It is from these utterances that we are able to sail across the international waters of sentiments and sensibilities.
Commissioned in the context of the BULLET TEXT project (Guangzhou, 2021), Namkheun aims to use these letters not as display objects in themselves, but rather as an entry point into a network of textual references across overlapping temporal, sociocultural, linguistic, or sensorial regimes. They aim to interrogate their own engagement with the letters, both through the act of translating and/or possible dialogue with other activists.
Joyful Militancy:
Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery
Graphic designer | Published by Namkheun Collective
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สู้ไปกราบใคร: ยืนหยัดขัดขืนในยุคแห่งพิษภัย (เล่มที่ ๑)
Thai
2023
Bangkok, Thailand
Published Namkheun Collective
11 x 21 cm, B/W on K-color #17 Pink 120 gsm.,
PANTONE 7588c + PANTONE 804c on White Card paper 350 gsm., Offset, thread sewn-Glued Binding, and french fold cover
Designed by Lita Chala-adisai
Translator
Wirunwan Pitaktong
Kritti Tantasith
from Namkheun Collective
Arcane Plateau by Thanawat Numcharoen
Graphic designer | Published by Namkheun Collective
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English
2023
Bangkok, Thailand
Published Namkheun Collective
11 x 18 cm, B/W, Color silk screen, Digital,
thread sewn perfect bound, softcover
Designed by Lita Chala-adisai
Writer
Thanawat Numcharoen
Concept and Editing
Wirunwan Pitaktong
Kritti Tantasith
from Namkheun Collective
This fiction book is written by Thanawat Numcharoen and features collaborative efforts from manuscript readers, editors, and the book layout concept design by Namkheun Collective. Anantawat serves as a special consultant, providing advice on various aspects, from design to print management. This book represents the 1st edition, with 200 copies printed and published by Parbpim Printing. Throughout the journey, many fellow human beings have contributed their energy, reading, and providing comments.
🎀 by Kamolros Wonguthum
Graphic designer | Published by Gallery VER
English
2023
Bangkok, Thailand
Published Gallery VER
21 x 26 cm, color, offset, thread sewn perfect bound, Hardcover
Designed by Lita Chala-adisai
Writer
Gaby Wilson
Concept and Editing
Kamolros Wonguthum
This publication serves as a catalog showcasing Kamolros's artwork featured in the exhibition which invites viewers into a world where cute rhizome structures intertwine with glossy compositions and recognisable topographical forms.
Inbetweeners
Self-publishing
Anon Chaisansook and Lita Chala-adisai
2019
Bangkok, Thailand
Published by Cyberprint Co.,ltd
20 x 27 cm, 84 pages, color, digital,
exposed spine thread sewn-glued, hardcover
Designed by Lita Chala-adisai
It is natural for a person or a group of people to seek to belong. Some look for a community, a territory, with lofty and prominent walls, but some carve out their own by eroding, distorting, and cracking the existing ones. These walls or borders are rigid and stubborn, but simultaneously fluid and versatile.
Though invisible and intangible, the “wall” ingeniously functions through social structures and imprint its existence in our subconsciuos. It marks an imaginary border, separating the insider from the outsider. It rises to obstruct the movement of those from both sides of the wall. While it may protect the insiders from the “invasion” of the outside, it also traps the movement of the insiders themselves. “Get off my turf”. This sentence, once uttered, reveals the walls, oncee invisible.“Turf,” therefore, does not only signify the physical territory with specific qualities of proximity, but also indicates the imaginary space in which a person or a group of people create to establish their identities.
Inbetweeners attempts to investigate different “turfs” both the familiar and the unfamiliar. Through our exploration of certain symbols that police and patrol those turfs, we walk in between the territories, along those wall, and, sometimes, enter and lurk into some.
Blessing
Self-publishing
Lita Chala-adisai
2018
Bangkok, Thailand
Published by Cyberprint Co.,ltd
14.8 x 21 cm, 60 pages, color, digitalwith poster, 42 x 59.4 cm, 100 grams, color, digital
Limited edition 100 copies, signed and numbered
This photo book began with an interest and subsequent exploration of the various materialities in tools, equipment, furniture and the decor of Buddhist religious sites. All the photos are taken by observing various angles within the buildings. Its complexity is revealed through the excessive ornamentations that function beyond the general usage of the spaces. A whole building that houses just the restrooms as well as the oversaturated colors in every corner of the space. This illicit a paradox of a religion that proclaims detachment and simplicity as their core tenets, and demand rigor and strict behavior upon entrance.
The book takes you on a journey from the initial experiences of a Buddhist person having learned in school the teachings of detachment and the letting go of the material world through to the physical realities of the space that embodies and initiates massive flows of capital. From exterior to interior, one sees through the architecture, centralized mechanisms of controlled practiced in these holy sites. These determine popular tendencies and flatten local belief systems, causing an uncanniness in these sites, traditions, and ceremonies.
The interplay of the photographs contrasts the texts which taught and cements the teachings of Buddhism and the loopholes in government policies towards these religious institutions. The secretive spendings which cannot be checked, money laundering known to be done by these entities colored these decadent photographs of space’s intentions. These cause dissonance in what one sees, a sponge is experienced with the harsh sterility of a floor tile, as the contrast of an over the top decorative chandelier in a holy place preaching non-materialism. These juxtaposition form a free-flowing network of association in which one must navigate for themselves.
Indulgence photo zine
Self-publishing
2016
Bangkok, Thailand
Published by Cyberprint Co.,ltd
Concept and designed by Lita Chala-adisai
21 x 29.7 cm, 10 pages, color, digital, file folder binding
A continuation from my studyingin college which exploring thedefinition of architecture, some elementsthat lead to everyday life objects.I trying to researching by observinga beauty dialogue with intuition.
