As a Malaysian Hoklo-Chinese, I grew up with beliefs surrounding that the deceased will return home on the 7th day upon death in the form of insect or animal. Every year during the lunar month of July, Ghost Festival was celebrated in Malaysia where replicas of bungalows, cars and money among others were offered to the ancestors and fellow spirits through the action of burning.

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In this media work, I gathered my numerous encounters with rituals - from the Malacca Arts & Performance Festival, interviews with Indonesian shaman Agus Riyanto, a video made to narrate experience in the bull-trance ritual as well as online zoom lecture notes where spirits and ancestors were addressed in a digital context into an explorable media page.

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These other-than-human encounters were then reconstructed and broken down into paragraphs, from a personalised narrative linking one to another within the virtual space.

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