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In Guts, Ho invites listeners on a guided experience as a body and mind in a state of illness during a time of quarantined isolation. Parodying the framework of a guided meditation, Ho narrates our journey through corporeal sensations and psychological reflections, easing us into “the elemental conditions of the body.” Their narrative contracts and bends, turning from descriptions of our immediate, imaginary surroundings to the functions of a body living with illness. Our disembodiment is twofold; we are removed from our own current state of isolation into the narrative space of the piece, and simultaneously, we are displaced from a sense of bodily normalcy. The narrator takes us on a journey with no destination, exploring the meditative movements that are still possible when physical mobility is rendered either unsanctioned or impossible. Coalesced with the current circumstances of a global pandemic, Ho’s work touches on the forces, external or internal, which often dictate one’s sense of bodily autonomy, and our ability to move ‘freely’ through or within the world.

S F Ho is a 90% chill 10% not artist living on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples. They are into community building, books, and being sort of boring. They just finished writing a short novella about aliens, love, and boundaries called George the Parasite.


Content warning: ‘Fake’ and deliberately intense guided meditation grounded in the perspective of a sick body. Some strong language.

Guts

S F Ho "Guts"

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S F Ho "Guts"

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