Himala
October 18. 2024
Presented by CultureHub
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BOMB Magazine
Himala reinterprets the mysteries of the rosary into a series of net art pieces & experimental infrastructures, presented as a durational desktop performance.
Treading through the infrastructural intimacies, containers & computers, and the domesticity of the divine – CultureHub Resident Artist Chia Amisola builds upon technological and Filipino Catholic mythologies in a new series of work that presents an ambient and ritualistic look towards our containers and the faiths they enable.
In an age where all bodies are heavens, technology is prayer, and delusions are divine, what would it mean to become an interface myself? I am the surveilled girl of the divine – immaculate, containing, transitory, ephemeral. All at once: omnipresent, surveilling, forgiving, embodied, pure–to apparate, be explicit, and be miraculous in my appearance. The girl, in her infrastructuring, has become a miracle. There is no offline or online self, just me and the angels. The reward for my devotion must be my delusion.
The history of Catholic ritual is one of ritual, communality, and poetry – now, Himala draws from Filipino practices such as the Pasyon to recenter containers. Can I become an apparition myself?
Himala was developed within the CultureHub Residency program.
