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Prayers for a Hungry Ghost – Cast and Creatives
We are saksi bisou (Bahasa: silent witness) – As an artistic collective, we are curious in exploring the universal experience of journey and exile. We are influenced by lived experiences as migrant people of colour, our work often investigates memory, isolation, oppression, exile and what it means to preserve our humanity. As part of our…
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Promised Land – About the Project
We are saksi bisou (Bahasa: silent witness) – As an artistic collective, we are curious in exploring the universal experience of journey and exile. We are influenced by lived experiences as migrant people of colour, our work often investigates memory, isolation, oppression, exile and what it means to preserve our humanity. This project is only…
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Running with the Devil
” I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who…
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Stories
All of us know what a story is. We might feel puzzled when asked, but if someone told us to tell a story, we know exactly what to do. Telling stories is an inextricable part of daily lives, both in connection with other people and with ourselves. In my last workshop, we did a story…
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Family.
I remember when I was very young, I had a fantasy that I was actually a changeling. I imagined what my actual mother and father might look like, that they would look a lot more like the couples in my school textbooks (mother with a big thick updo, father with a moustache). It was probably…
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Where do the exiles go?
Mother, tell me where do the exiles go?Don’t feed me back my desires chewed up and half deadOn nights like these when we sorrow like riversLet us dip our greedy cups into its flowSwirl my troubles like fine wine until they turn sweetUntil drunk, we stumble in the dark For a ditch to pour out the…
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Hungry Ghosts
Hungry ghosts are believed to wander the earth—the souls of those who were violent and unhappy, desirous and greedy—they have large bellies and eyes and small mouths, never able to satiate themselves. Hungry ghosts are an integral part of Buddhist literature, but aptly it is a ghostly presence that is often ignored (it’s not as…
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My invisibility.
This past week, I joined 9 other women of East Asian/Southeast Asian descent in a residency hosted by the East Asian Ticket Club and Hawkwood College (👈 check em’ out). Although my body stayed in the same studio, I felt myself traveling to different places: back to my childhood in Jakarta, to my grandmother’s days…
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“First, confrontation with MYTH…
In other words, while retaining our private experiences, we can attempt to incarnate myth, putting on its ill-fitting skin to perceive the relativity of our problems, their connection to the “roots” and the relativity of the “roots” in the light of today’s experience. If the situation is brutal, if we strip ourselves and touch an…
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