Boedi Widjaja’s performance for the camera traces the myths of his ethnic and cultural origins; the beginnings of his personal diasporic cosmology. Along the southern coast of Singapore facing his birthplace Java, he communed with stardust—cosmic particle muons. He held a custom muon tracker close to his body, and marked the entry of muons through the device and his corporeal frame. With each detection, the tracker flashed in Morse code the Tang Dynasty poem 浪淘沙 ("Waves Swirling Sand").

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Credits
Performer | Director | Editor Boedi Widjaja
Cinematographer Harry Chew
Open-source code: Jerry Petrey
Producer Audrey Koh