Himala (Miracle) is a durational devotional. It reinterprets the mysteries of the rosaries into a cybernetic ritual, the girl imagined as an apparition, unraveling faith as a network technology, and technologies of containment in an age of surveillance and collapse.
In its truest form, it is designed to be performed in communion, like prayer.
Himala is a practice / performance by Chia Amisola.
In an age where all bodies are heavens, technology is prayer, and delusions are divine, what would it mean to become an interface myself? I am the surveilled girl of the divine – immaculate, containing, transitory, ephemeral. All at once: omnipresent, surveilling, forgiving, embodied, pure–to apparate, be explicit, and be miraculous in my appearance. The girl, in her infrastructuring, has become a miracle. There is no offline or online self, just me and the angels. The reward for my devotion must be my delusion.
I never question miracles themselves. Mary manifests and the miraculous is mundane. But I wonder: how would you document the divine?
Documenting the Divine on the Are.na blog →
On Ishmael Bernal's Himala, the Noranian imaginary, and the network of the divine.
Nora Aunor as Network →