Alam Halus merged Javanese and British mythology in an outdoor site-specific collaboration with Parmin Ras and Dalang (shadow puppet master) Jatmika Edi Basuki. An audience of no more than forty people were taken on an experiential journey through four installations sited in the Amphitheatre and surrounding woodland and activated by live sound, movement, light, water and fire.

Inspired by the Javanese story of the classical Hindu hero Bima, Alam Halus was a rite of passage through life and death, creation and destruction, initiation and sacrifice.

The subtle realm
Hawth Amphitheatre, Crawley 1998

 

Remember before we breathed water

Fire was liquid. Air solid. Light dark.

And the earth drifted...

 

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