There Is Nothing Else Known In The Sky That Does That
by Chi Tran
In an attempt to transport herself to Heaven through a backyard ritual, a young woman has found herself in her grandmother’s old temple.
The temple is modest, a small converted home in St Albans.
The monk invites her inside, shows her where the light switches are, and leaves her alone in the temple.
There is a chant singing from a machine, over and over, reciting a prayer for boundless light. Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật.
The young woman sits down and listens, as the temple speaks to her about the ghosts that live there and how time passes differently for them.
The temple is modest, a small converted home in St Albans.
The monk invites her inside, shows her where the light switches are, and leaves her alone in the temple.
There is a chant singing from a machine, over and over, reciting a prayer for boundless light. Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật.
The young woman sits down and listens, as the temple speaks to her about the ghosts that live there and how time passes differently for them.
Chi Tran is a writer, editor and artist interested in language as a form of devotion and prayer. Chi’s main form lies in essays, poems, auto-theory, film, and writing exhibition texts for other artists. Chi’s practice is invested in the affective functions of language and phenomenological possibilities of combined critical and poetic writing. Chi is influenced by light, physics, philosophy, film, genetic memory, faith and the life (or lives) of language.
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There Is Nothing Else Known In The Sky That Does That is the second instalment of the artist’s ongoing research project of language as an active lifeform.
The artist would like to thank Sư Cô Nhật Liên, Chùa Bồ Đề, Mẹ Nga, Panda Wong and Antuong Nguyen.
The artist would like to thank Sư Cô Nhật Liên, Chùa Bồ Đề, Mẹ Nga, Panda Wong and Antuong Nguyen.
