a brief history of VER

VER began with the establishment of Namdee publishing station in Bangkok in 2000 by Rirkrit Tiravanija, an internationally renowned Thai artist based in Thailand , Berlin and New York . In 2004, the project was renamed PLAN.b publishing, production and design limited partnership. We aim to act as a platform for launching innovative ideas in such forms as artist's books, textbooks, magazines, music, film, video, posters, graphics and design. We are interested in ideas and objects which can be published and/or multiplied and disseminated into the cultural stream.

Moreover, we would like PLAN.b to function like bile, as an active agent bringing together people from various places and working collaboratively. PLAN.b is a network or node, where artists, photographers, architects, musicians, poets, and other individuals and groups can join in at any time, from anywhere. We would like to apply all the communicative tools available in daily life, crossing both physical and virtual borders, in order to keep the flux fluid.

O ver magazine is the first publication from PLAN.b publishing station, bangkok. It involves stories taken from everyday life: food, music, sport, travel, fashion, fiction, non-fiction, art, architecture, living culture, politics and science.

“Ver” is a common Thai slang word derived from the English word “over”, and can be translated as "severe." We are interested in various senses of the word “over”: “across an “intervening distance”; "from an upward to an invented or reversed position”; “in repetition”; and “again”. But we are not interested in its sense as “the end”.

Thus each issue of O ver magazine is a memoir - of passing, of crossing an intervening distance, of going from an upward to an inverted/reversed position, of again. We approach the notion of life and living in a realistic manner, according to the Thai saying, “let it go”.

The magazine is divided into two sections: image (the paper part) and sound (audio CDs with music and ambient noise and spoken text).

The making of O ver is like the process of film editing. The difference is there are endless possibilities of story/plot created while listening and flipping through O ver magazine. O ver magazine is composed of stories, time and space.

We also provide chances for artists, designers and other creatives abroad to realize and produce work in Thailand . In this capacity we have been working with such artists as Tobias Rehberger, Olafur Aliasson, Philippe Parreno, Superflex and many others.