Spirit House: Hauntings in Contemporary Art of the Asian Diaspora Art Essentials With chapters on chairs

With chapters on chairs

to how best to end a relationship

From the Wild is all you need to forage

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From the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the modern Grumpy Cat meme

Spirit House: Hauntings in Contemporary Art of the Asian Diaspora Art Essentials With chapters on chairsInspired by spirit houses, small devotional structures found in Thailand that provide shelter to the supernatural, this book considers how art collapses the distance between past and present. Contemporary artists reckon with the spiritual and spectral in our visual culture, question the many forms that ghosts can take challenge data driven methods of understanding the world. Featuring previously unpublished works an essay by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong