Land As Anchor Performance By Bettina Fung | 馮允珊

Alter-native collective

Experience 'Land As Anchor' with artist Bettina Fung | 馮允珊

Courage Yard

Performance drawing that draws from the belief and history of the worshipping of 土地公 (TuDi Gong), as a way of thinking about migrants’ diasporic relationship to land - the land they or their parents/grandparents migrated to and the ancestral homeland that was left behind.TuDi Gong is translated as the Earth/Land god or Lord of the soil and the ground, is a ubiquitous and commonly worshipped deity in Chinese religions. He is a guardian of a locality and the human communities that live on it, who protects as well as brings wealth. He has been worshipped in China since ancient times, originally as a way to revere and appreciate the land. Because of his name TuDi 土地 (straight translation: soil 土 ground 地, meaning earth or land), he is often introduced as the Chinese god of agriculture but that is only partially accurate. In fact, TuDi Gong signifies the relationship between humans and the land/place/environment in which they inhabit. Furthermore, he is a deity that migrant Chinese often brought along with to protect them in the new land. With his shrine usually placed outside the house by the front door, TuDi Gong is also connected to demarcating and sacralising local settlements, neighbourhoods and communal spaces of the migrant Chinese communities.Land could be considered as an anchor, a marker of permanence, “come drought and hunger...come fire or disease, with land there was always hope of rejuvenation and recuperation.” (Hugh Baker) and TuDi Gong stands for a sense of stability, of security, of identity as well as of community and of belonging.-﻿---- Altar-native Exhibition: A Journey into East and Southeast Asian Ancestral Heritage in newly opened Ugly Duck Courage YardAltar-native immerses visitors in the multiplicities within ESEA culture and diaspora. The artists come together to magnify and challenge ideas of death and mourning, confronting societal taboos. By expanding the notion of "ghosts", exploring ritual and altar practices, the exhibition serves as a conduit for the reexamination of ancestral, and therefore personal, identities. The exhibition also explores themes of loss and immortality, transcending human-spirit boundaries and conventional understandings of grief.Launching on Halloween, guests attending the opening night are encouraged to draw on ghosts and ancestral heritage as inspiration for their costumes/outfits.Curators:Dora LamDuong Thuy Nguyen

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Land As Anchor Performance By Bettina Fung | 馮允珊

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