| Description | - Larissa Platz’s Master’s thesis is a speculative curatorial research project. Platz employs the visual essay format to create a piece where cosmologies are constellated, associations flow, and tools to subvert the regime of the gaze are tested. Focusing on Anito, an ambient ancestral spirit from around the island of Pongso No Tao in Taiwan, she positions minor deities and ancestral spirits within the predicament of Christianity and the paradoxes of modernity. Platz draws on Anito, who hovers between malevolence and friendliness, the dead and the living, to investigate how one can narrate something from the perspective of a liminal entity, and if one can write against artificial boundaries without reproducing them. In doing so, she sheds light on the apparent contradictions of modernity and lays out how resistance may unfold at sites of extraction, colonial expansion, and political ideology.
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