Nurin’s Ablution

Nurin’s Ablution, Performance, towels, red basin, silver hand washing pots, water, rice, 4:17 mins

Performance in response to Reconfiguration of Childhood where ideas of physical and emotional cleansing are acted out through the act of ablution using water, a universal cleansing material and rice as means of purification of ones innocence. The use of rice is derivative from the Malaysian folklore of Mahsuri, a lady who bled white blood after being stabbed due to adultery accusation, leading her to curse the land of Langkawi. Rice is significant in the story of Mahsuri as not long after there curse, Langkawi experienced and invasion that lead the rice grains to be burnt, therefore, turning it black.