Himala
CultureHub
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012
October 18, 2024
3–9pm ET
In-Person + Livestream
Free / Donate
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?
During the week of the residency, the event will be livestreamed intermittently online. On Friday, October 18th, the artist will perform a durational presentation from 3–9pm, open for drop in online and in-person at CultureHub NYC. Watch the livestream here. A ticketed lecture-performance on Himala’s themes will occur at 7pm.
This project is supported within the CultureHub Residency program.