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Collaboration with Aki Sasamoto
Exit Art, NYC  2005
Block of soap with puja offerings, water, brass bowl, speech

A performative extension of Everything Chidambaram, a large block of soap cast with puja offering materials (including Ayurvedic Soap, Brass Bowls, Water, 9 Grains, Ghee, Coconut, Dried Flowers and Roots, Betel, Grasses, Neem Mango and Curry Leaves, Various Spices, Camphor, Dirt, Cow Dung) is ritually washed with by the performer, Ali Sasamoto, forming pools of suds around it, as she vocalizes anything and everything that comes to her mind.

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Praying Project

August 28, 2014 by jschiff@wesleyan.edu

Collaboration with Aki Sasamoto
Exit Art, NYC  2005
Block of soap with puja offerings, water, brass bowl, speech

A performative extension of Everything Chidambaram, a large block of soap cast with puja offering materials (including Ayurvedic Soap, Brass Bowls, Water, 9 Grains, Ghee, Coconut, Dried Flowers and Roots, Betel, Grasses, Neem Mango and Curry Leaves, Various Spices, Camphor, Dirt, Cow Dung) is ritually washed with by the performer, Ali Sasamoto, forming pools of suds around it, as she vocalizes anything and everything that comes to her mind.

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