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Unforgettable Girl – we need your help!
Hello, I am Elisabeth Gunawan. Depending on who you are and where you are, you might know me as an actor/artist/maker of disturbing things, an ex-colleague at Google, someone who interned for you, random girl you met at a basement or Facebook group/workshop/poetry slam/seminar/etc., or someone you haven’t seen for twenty years. I have an…
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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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Rock Bottom
They say when you hit rock bottom you’ll know Last time was in 2014, standing in my good shoes outside the Holiday Inn With my piano teacher’s voice in my head saying: in there, there is nothing but pain (I told you how at night my mother prays for the clouds to go into her eyes…
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Anima
Sweet Anima,We are in the hospitalThey are trying to cure you of the diseases of your imaginationIt’s making you thinner by the day I understandI used to be scared of the monsters in the closet tooand sirens that fly through open windows to steal my little brothers from their beds But trust meThe country of…
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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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Prayer for a Hungry Ghost – Jakarta, 22 Dec 2021
Even then I was clinging (When they dug me out dress and all)Lord, I know you dragged me kicking and screaming up the mountaintopThat afternoon the sky was blue and deepI was afraid i would fall I am holding the loose end of a threadThere was a time when I was afraid of God and…
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