Feeding your Ghost 2.0
Participat in Garage Rotterdam
Collabirate with Wen-Hsuan Lin
Presentation and Workshop
Rotterdam, NL
Dec 11, 2024
As an extension of the Feeding Your Ghost 1.0 workshop, this version—developed specifically for Garage Rotterdam—draws from the artist’s ongoing research into Ghost Month rituals in Taiwanese folk culture. In this belief system, food offerings are not merely sustenance but spiritual bridges, creating temporary harmony between the living and the dead. The concept of "being well-fed" reflects a unique cultural wisdom within Taiwanese folk beliefs: through these offerings, wandering spirits find peace, creating a balance between the living and the dead.
This workshop centers around the traditional “Five Offerings” (五牲), reimagined through five symbolic food items. Notably, the feng-pian-gao—a steamed glutinous rice cake—replaces actual animal sacrifice, echoing the Taoist idea of "seeking the divine through form." In this fictional self-ritual, participants are invited to reflect: if the ghost you are feeding is the “other” you may one day become, what kind of nourishment does that future self require?
Rather than simply reenacting tradition, the workshop transforms it. Each participant becomes both giver and receiver, blurring the boundary between self and spirit. Through this embodied ritual, ghost stories are brought into present-day dialogue—not as superstition, but as a form of cultural inquiry and healing.
Feeding Your Ghost 2.0 invites introspection and shared imagination, offering a poetic space where the visible and invisible, the historical and the personal, may briefly meet.
This workshop centers around the traditional “Five Offerings” (五牲), reimagined through five symbolic food items. Notably, the feng-pian-gao—a steamed glutinous rice cake—replaces actual animal sacrifice, echoing the Taoist idea of "seeking the divine through form." In this fictional self-ritual, participants are invited to reflect: if the ghost you are feeding is the “other” you may one day become, what kind of nourishment does that future self require?
Rather than simply reenacting tradition, the workshop transforms it. Each participant becomes both giver and receiver, blurring the boundary between self and spirit. Through this embodied ritual, ghost stories are brought into present-day dialogue—not as superstition, but as a form of cultural inquiry and healing.
Feeding Your Ghost 2.0 invites introspection and shared imagination, offering a poetic space where the visible and invisible, the historical and the personal, may briefly meet.
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