Title: Cities on the Move
Year: 1999
Illustrator: Navin Production
Volume: 1
Page: 48
Publisher: Unpublished
Related Exhibition/Project: Cities on the Move VI

One of the two project tuk-tuks was fixed by a French mechanic while it was decided to continually display the other vehicle in the exhibition venue along with a huge billboard which narrated the second chapter of the ‘On the Move’ film. The poster depicted the adventures of Thai artist-cum-driver, Kosit, who bored with his love life and the recent Asian economic crash, decides to leave his hometown in Thailand. After an invitation from his local peers and a couple of foreign curators, Kosit and his little tuk-tuk drive through the thick snow to the city of Mozart. Working taking tourists for rides around the city center, he literally runs into his new love, a Viennese girl who he almost kills with his tuk-tuk. The new couple is happy but soon our Thai hero has to depart for the next destination of Cities of the Move, an art exhibition involving with people who invited him from Thailand. He has also promised the Thai tuk-tuk manufacturer that sponsored the tuk-tuks in the exhibition that he would promote the vehicles and try to get foreign customers to purchase some. Our hero arrives in France and heads to the southern wine country. Kosit’s life in Bordeaux is a mixture of working and drinking hard while another new love is born. Unbelievably, this time he falls in love with a Thai supermodel famous in the fashion world. However, unlike the Thai soap operas and Korean dramas; this ‘Channel’ girl does not reciprocate the affections of a poor and unknown driver from her home country. Though depressed, Kosit cuts down on his drinking and concentrates on giving a Thai-minded service for his passengers riding the tuk-tuk between the exhibition site and the city center.

There were billboards expressing Kosit’s adventure in front of the museum as well as other locations across the city. The two artists collaborating with French fashion brand agnès b. produced 400 limited-edition Tuk Tuk on the Move Driver shirts in custom-made packages. Taking place during the summer, the tuk-tuk’s engine was functioned in the warm weather, but the taxi sign on the roof had to be turned off because of jealous local taxi drivers