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During the Ghost Month
(Aug 7 and will last until Sept 4.) the gates of Hell are opened, releasing ghosts, and spirits including those of the dead with permits to roam the living world.
For the local Chinese who believe in this, the festival has always been held to pay respects to the dead, and to seek protection and good luck from the ‘Tai Su Yah‘ (King of Hades)- the ruler of the underworld.
Long hours of prayers beginning early each day through late at night for almost a month are conducted in an intense manner with massive offerings of food offered up to Tai Su Yeah.
Huge quantities of joss papers are also offered to Tai Su Yeah, as well as roasted pigs, goats, chicken, ducks and traditional Chinese cakes miku, moho, gem biscuits, fruits and flowers.
The intensity of the practice stunned me. Never have I seen so many people offering up prayers to any deity as this before..and this being the King of Hades.
Protection and favour seems to be the main purpose in all I witnessed.
More surprising was the presence of the young - I'd expected to see the seniors as the majority, but no; it was mostly attended by those below 30; teens and kids included...
In contemporary America, specters of unresolved struggles with racism, sexism, homophobia, and economic inequities have recently exploded into public consciousness – at times in quietly insidious or subtle ways, and in growing overtly violent ways. These specters continue to haunt and affect us as individuals, families and communities across cultures. Art is the vehicle to ignite this vitally needed discourse.
Hungry Ghost provides us with a culturally rich environment in which to unearth and share familial stories. This exhibition is meant to spark personal storytelling and conversation to address and release past trauma as a community, while creating compassion and a sense of “oneness” instead of “otherness.”
The exhibiting artists present “Artists Talking Story,” a panel discussion about their artmaking process, both their inspirations and obstacles to overcome working to visually represent their Hungry Ghosts.
The PLACE collective is a core group of artists alumni of A PLACE OF HER OWN, an ongoing program of healing and transformative workshops culminating in art exhibitions. They help women to artistically answer to the question, “If you had a place of your own, what would it be?” The PLACE Collective considers the first and most difficult part of this journey, the HUNGRY GHOST. Participants courageously unearth and question family patterns and personal beliefs. This process includes art making, meditation and group discussion exploring ancestral trauma, unfulfilled longing acceptance and fulfillment.
Hungry Ghost, yearning for fulfillment is part of the ongoing Project Space Series Far From Home, an annual exhibition of work by artists living in North America who are of foreign birth or are the adult children or grandchildren of immigrants.
Info about the artists
These courageous women artists of color, whose families have been affected by forced migration, strangling colonization, war and corrupt governments, were selected because of the work they do in the community. For them, social justice art is a calling, not a choice.
Manon Bogerd Wada, Frances Cachapero, Reiko Fujii, Lisa Rodondi, Natalie Sacramento, Cynthia Tom, Irene Wibawa and Maggie Yee
During the Ghost Month
(Aug 7 and will last until Sept 4.) the gates of Hell are opened, releasing ghosts, and spirits including those of the dead with permits to roam the living world.
For the local Chinese who believe in this, the festival has always been held to pay respects to the dead, and to seek protection and good luck from the ‘Tai Su Yah‘ (King of Hades)- the ruler of the underworld.
Long hours of prayers beginning early each day through late at night for almost a month are conducted in an intense manner with massive offerings of food offered up to Tai Su Yeah.
Huge quantities of joss papers are also offered to Tai Su Yeah, as well as roasted pigs, goats, chicken, ducks and traditional Chinese cakes miku, moho, gem biscuits, fruits and flowers.
The intensity of the practice stunned me. Never have I seen so many people offering up prayers to any deity as this before..and this being the King of Hades.
Protection and favour seems to be the main purpose in all I witnessed.
More surprising was the presence of the young - I'd expected to see the seniors as the majority, but no; it was mostly attended by those below 30; teens and kids included...
A local from Lamma Island making a prayer during the Hungry Ghost Festival.
The Hungry Ghost Festival (or Ghost Festival) is one of the major festivals in China. There is a belief throughout China that for the 7th month in a year the world is dominated by ghosts or spirits and thus the Ghost Festival is held.
The Festival is a major Buddhist and Taoist event. Hungry ghosts are the restless spirits of people who did not have a funeral. There is no one visiting their graves and they do not receive the gifts that Chinese people would take to their ancestors to pay respects, so they miss out on food and spirit money.
In a logical way to stop the ghosts causing problems for the living, many communities provide them with food to appease them (as is here in Lamma Island).
poster for KLUB MOOZAK #28
28/10/2009 @ FLUC VIENNA
MZK#002 - KABELBRAND - SOUNDS FROM THE MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER
ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
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KK NULL (JP)
HUNGRY GHOST (AT)
KLUB MOOZAK #28
KABELBRAND - SOUNDS FROM THE MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER
ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
28/10/2009
FLUC/VIENNA
LIVE:
Hungry Ghost (AT) (Hui Ye, Bernhard Schöberl, Daniel Lercher)
Introductory Speech by Dr. Helmuth Schwarzjirg, head of the Max Brand Archiv Langenzersdorf
Image Credits: leilapan
Hungry Ghost Festival in Penang, Malaysia
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The ice cream seller can be found in almost every getai, dishing out cold treats to cool the getai fans from the humid nights.
Title - Hungry Ghost: Stories of Longing and Resilience
Curated by: Cynthia Tom and Maggie Yee
Orig curatorial concept: Lisa Chiu.
Artists: Manon Bogerd Wada, Frances Cachapero, Reiko Fujii, Lisa Rodondi, Natalie Sacramento, Cynthia Tom, Irene Wibawa and Maggie Yee
Gallery Route One Project Space
September 29th – November 5th
Reception: Saturday, Sept. 30, from 3 to 5 PM
Artist’s Talks at 2:30 before the reception
Talking Story, Artists’ Panel Discussion, Saturday, Oct. 14, 5 to 7 PM
Closing Celebration: Sunday, Nov. 5, 2pm -5 PM
Hungry Ghost: A group art exhibition exploring the intersections between chronic heartache and prescriptions for resilience. Seven Asian American women artists, artistically explore unresolved personal struggles, aiming to heal and transform themselves and us for generations to come. Working through the lens of family, using multi-media, including sculpture, painting, installation, photography and text they explore grief, silence, ethnicity, gender and race discrimination, adoption, internment, forced migration, revealing family and cultural patterns of hurt, longing, as well as resilience. These artists, known as the PLACE Art Collective hope to inspire community building with a new hope of unity, love and resistance.
The concept of “Hungry Ghosts” ¬ otherwise known as a preta (Sanskrit), èguǐ 餓鬼 (Chinese), agwi (Korean), ma doi (Vietnamese), or gaki 餓鬼 (Japanese) ¬ is present in many Asian cultures and religions. It typically refers to lost spirits roaming the earth burdened by unmet needs, insatiable hungers, and intense desires often for a particular substance or object.
Title - Hungry Ghost: Stories of Longing and Resilience
Curated by: Cynthia Tom and Maggie Yee
Orig curatorial concept: Lisa Chiu.
Artists: Manon Bogerd Wada, Frances Cachapero, Reiko Fujii, Lisa Rodondi, Natalie Sacramento, Cynthia Tom, Irene Wibawa and Maggie Yee
Gallery Route One Project Space
September 29th – November 5th
Reception: Saturday, Sept. 30, from 3 to 5 PM
Artist’s Talks at 2:30 before the reception
Talking Story, Artists’ Panel Discussion, Saturday, Oct. 14, 5 to 7 PM
Closing Celebration: Sunday, Nov. 5, 2pm -5 PM
Hungry Ghost: A group art exhibition exploring the intersections between chronic heartache and prescriptions for resilience. Seven Asian American women artists, artistically explore unresolved personal struggles, aiming to heal and transform themselves and us for generations to come. Working through the lens of family, using multi-media, including sculpture, painting, installation, photography and text they explore grief, silence, ethnicity, gender and race discrimination, adoption, internment, forced migration, revealing family and cultural patterns of hurt, longing, as well as resilience. These artists, known as the PLACE Art Collective hope to inspire community building with a new hope of unity, love and resistance.
The concept of “Hungry Ghosts” ¬ otherwise known as a preta (Sanskrit), èguǐ 餓鬼 (Chinese), agwi (Korean), ma doi (Vietnamese), or gaki 餓鬼 (Japanese) ¬ is present in many Asian cultures and religions. It typically refers to lost spirits roaming the earth burdened by unmet needs, insatiable hungers, and intense desires often for a particular substance or object.
The local priest and followers making song during the Hungry Ghost Festival.
The Hungry Ghost Festival (or Ghost Festival) is one of the major festivals in China. There is a belief throughout China that for the 7th month in a year the world is dominated by ghosts or spirits and thus the Ghost Festival is held.
The Festival is a major Buddhist and Taoist event. Hungry ghosts are the restless spirits of people who did not have a funeral. There is no one visiting their graves and they do not receive the gifts that Chinese people would take to their ancestors to pay respects, so they miss out on food and spirit money.
In a logical way to stop the ghosts causing problems for the living, many communities provide them with food to appease them (as is here in Lamma Island).
Hungry Ghost Festival in Penang, Malaysia
For more go here
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151658028138867.10737...
Title - Hungry Ghost: Stories of Longing and Resilience
Curated by: Cynthia Tom and Maggie Yee
Orig curatorial concept: Lisa Chiu.
Artists: Manon Bogerd Wada, Frances Cachapero, Reiko Fujii, Lisa Rodondi, Natalie Sacramento, Cynthia Tom, Irene Wibawa and Maggie Yee
Gallery Route One Project Space
September 29th – November 5th
Reception: Saturday, Sept. 30, from 3 to 5 PM
Artist’s Talks at 2:30 before the reception
Talking Story, Artists’ Panel Discussion, Saturday, Oct. 14, 5 to 7 PM
Closing Celebration: Sunday, Nov. 5, 2pm -5 PM
Hungry Ghost: A group art exhibition exploring the intersections between chronic heartache and prescriptions for resilience. Seven Asian American women artists, artistically explore unresolved personal struggles, aiming to heal and transform themselves and us for generations to come. Working through the lens of family, using multi-media, including sculpture, painting, installation, photography and text they explore grief, silence, ethnicity, gender and race discrimination, adoption, internment, forced migration, revealing family and cultural patterns of hurt, longing, as well as resilience. These artists, known as the PLACE Art Collective hope to inspire community building with a new hope of unity, love and resistance.
The concept of “Hungry Ghosts” ¬ otherwise known as a preta (Sanskrit), èguǐ 餓鬼 (Chinese), agwi (Korean), ma doi (Vietnamese), or gaki 餓鬼 (Japanese) ¬ is present in many Asian cultures and religions. It typically refers to lost spirits roaming the earth burdened by unmet needs, insatiable hungers, and intense desires often for a particular substance or object.
KLUB MOOZAK #28
KABELBRAND - SOUNDS FROM THE MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER
ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
28/10/2009
FLUC/VIENNA
LIVE:
Hungry Ghost (AT) (Hui Ye, Bernhard Schöberl, Daniel Lercher)
Introductory Speech by Dr. Helmuth Schwarzjirg, head of the Max Brand Archiv Langenzersdorf
Image Credits: leilapan
During the Ghost Month
(Aug 7 and will last until Sept 4.) the gates of Hell are opened, releasing ghosts, and spirits including those of the dead with permits to roam the living world.
For the local Chinese who believe in this, the festival has always been held to pay respects to the dead, and to seek protection and good luck from the ‘Tai Su Yah‘ (King of Hades)- the ruler of the underworld.
Long hours of prayers beginning early each day through late at night for almost a month are conducted in an intense manner with massive offerings of food offered up to Tai Su Yeah.
Huge quantities of joss papers are also offered to Tai Su Yeah, as well as roasted pigs, goats, chicken, ducks and traditional Chinese cakes miku, moho, gem biscuits, fruits and flowers.
The intensity of the practice stunned me. Never have I seen so many people offering up prayers to any deity as this before..and this being the King of Hades.
Protection and favour seems to be the main purpose in all I witnessed.
More surprising was the presence of the young - I'd expected to see the seniors as the majority, but no; it was mostly attended by those below 30; teens and kids included...
On Day 4 of the Yamashita workshop I went to Orchard Rd in the afternoon to take more shots.
I found people burning stuff for the hungry ghost festival behind Emerald Hill. Me and my camera was covered in ashes after shooting these
KLUB MOOZAK #28
KABELBRAND - SOUNDS FROM THE MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER
ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
28/10/2009
FLUC/VIENNA
LIVE:
Hungry Ghost (AT) (Hui Ye, Bernhard Schöberl, Daniel Lercher)
Introductory Speech by Dr. Helmuth Schwarzjirg, head of the Max Brand Archiv Langenzersdorf
Image Credits: leilapan
KLUB MOOZAK #28
KABELBRAND - SOUNDS FROM THE MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER
ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
28/10/2009
FLUC/VIENNA
LIVE:
Hungry Ghost (AT) (Hui Ye, Bernhard Schöberl, Daniel Lercher)
Introductory Speech by Dr. Helmuth Schwarzjirg, head of the Max Brand Archiv Langenzersdorf
Image Credits: leilapan
During the Ghost Month
(Aug 7 and will last until Sept 4.) the gates of Hell are opened, releasing ghosts, and spirits including those of the dead with permits to roam the living world.
For the local Chinese who believe in this, the festival has always been held to pay respects to the dead, and to seek protection and good luck from the ‘Tai Su Yah‘ (King of Hades)- the ruler of the underworld.
Long hours of prayers beginning early each day through late at night for almost a month are conducted in an intense manner with massive offerings of food offered up to Tai Su Yeah.
Huge quantities of joss papers are also offered to Tai Su Yeah, as well as roasted pigs, goats, chicken, ducks and traditional Chinese cakes miku, moho, gem biscuits, fruits and flowers.
The intensity of the practice stunned me. Never have I seen so many people offering up prayers to any deity as this before..and this being the King of Hades.
Protection and favour seems to be the main purpose in all I witnessed.
More surprising was the presence of the young - I'd expected to see the seniors as the majority, but no; it was mostly attended by those below 30; teens and kids included...
Hungry Ghost Festival falls on the 7th month of the lunar New Year and is celebrated mainly in China and other countries such as Singapore & Malaysia. It is believe that during this month, the gates of hell are opened to free the hungry ghosts who then wander to seek food on Earth. Chinese celebrate this festival chiefly to remember their deceased family members and pay tribute to them. They also feel that offering food to the deceased appeases them and wards off bad luck.
Chinese also believe that the dead return to visit their living relatives during the 7th month and so they prepare a sumptuous meal for the ‘hungry ghosts’, just as they would for normal Chinese gatherings at festivals. They also offer prayers to the deceased relatives and burn joss sticks.
In Malaysia and Singapore, there are also concerts (getai or wayang) performed on outdoor stages in some neighborhoods at night. These concerts used to be traditional Chinese (different dialects) operas and (Teochews and Hokkien) puppet shows; however nowadays such traditional performances are very rare- they are replaced by pop music. There is a belief that this entertainment would please those wandering ghosts.
This photo is a rare Hokkien puppet show.
During the month of Yue Laan (Hungry Ghost) . This is when restless spirits are said to roam the earth, and when the believers make efforts to appease the ghosts and ancestors – particularly during the Hungry Ghost Festival itself. In some areas of Hong Kong, visitors can see small roadside fires, where believers burn fake money and make other offerings to the restless spirits and their ancestors. Special food is often prepared to feed the hungry ghosts.
KLUB MOOZAK #28
KABELBRAND - SOUNDS FROM THE MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER
ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
28/10/2009
FLUC/VIENNA
LIVE:
Hungry Ghost (AT) (Hui Ye, Bernhard Schöberl, Daniel Lercher)
Introductory Speech by Dr. Helmuth Schwarzjirg, head of the Max Brand Archiv Langenzersdorf
Image Credits: leilapan