Ngeruak: A Plea to Build

Description of Performance/Installation:

Balinese duo, ghOstMiSt, calls for you to think about how to build culture from ruins and dismemberment. In Bali, Ngeruak, is a ceremony where you ask permission from the land and its stewards to build. To build structures; to build sociality; to build community; to build family; to build a better future. ghOstMiSt seeks to appease doom by basking in slowness and rhythmic subdivision, nesting dynamic beginnings within shifting climates. We are here to bask in schismogenic feminism and elevate the presence of forgotten women.

Before and after the performance, the installation is interactive. But to respect the instruments and Balinese culture, please do not step over Gamelan instruments or play with your feet. Effects pedals may be touched with feet.

This performance will be sonicly and visually noisy. Although we will never discriminate by age and will always allow for all ages to attend, some material and images may be scary for humans under 18-years-old.

Thursday, September 18, 2025

7:00-9:00pm (Main performance begins at 8:00pm)

Grin Cupola

3635 Highway 146, Grinnell, Iowa 50112

Artist:

ghOstMiSt

(Dance: Dewa Ayu Eka Putri; Music: Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena)

ghOstMiSt is a Balinese experimental duo that uses reflexive improvisation as way to interrogate

cultural contradiction and reclaim performance place. Dewa Ayu Eka Putri and I started this duo

as a critique of traditional frames of value judgement. By enacting performative inquiries of

Balinese-ness we question spiritual and cosmological epistemologies of performance. It is

important that we teach through community-based methods and engage in diverse participation

in efforts to create works of art that promote creativity, while understanding historical privilege

to address social and philosophical

Contact:

IG: 91ghost_mist89

Website: www.putuhiranmayena.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ghostmist2386/videos