Balinese duo, ghOstMiSt, calls for you to think about how to build culture from ruins and dismemberment. In Bali, Ngeruak, is a ceremony where you ask permission from the land and its stewards to build. To build structures; to build sociality; to build community; to build family; to build a better future. ghOstMiSt seeks to appease doom by basking in slowness and rhythmic subdivision, nesting dynamic beginnings within shifting climates. We are here to bask in schismogenic feminism and elevate the presence of forgotten women.

ghOstMiSt

(Dance: Dewa Ayu Eka Putri; Music: Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena)

ghOstMiSt is a Balinese experimental duo that uses reflexive improvisation as way to interrogate cultural contradiction and reclaim performance place. Dewa Ayu Eka Putri and I started this duo as a critique of traditional frames of value judgement. By enacting performative inquiries of Balinese-ness we question spiritual and cosmological epistemologies of performance. It is important that we teach through community-based methods and engage in diverse participation in efforts to create works of art that promote creativity, while understanding historical privilege to address social and philosophical issues.

More information: www.putuhiranmayena.com