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Chinju

 鎮守 Chinju (2024)

 

Performance commissioned by SLQS Gallery for the opening of their inaugural exhibition ‘A Landscape of Chance’.

Chinju means "guardianship" and refers to a protective deity in Shinto, Japan's indigenous faith, that holds that spiritual power exists in everyday life.
I perform this ritual through my movement to celebrate the spirits around us as new communities evolve and shift around this new space.