by Gyun Hur

II. Call to_____

Call: (Tap tap tap)  (blessed)  be –

Response:  (together) (Dah dah dah dih dah)  (blessed)  be forever and ever 

Call: (Tap tap tap)  (blessed)  be –

Response:  (together) (Dah dah dah dih dah)  (blessed)  be forever and ever

Gyun Hur, Untitled, collage on paper (collage from a copy of painting Laundry by Kim-Hong Do, 18th century), 8.5” x 12” (2018)

III. Hymn

1. 

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I am so sad, my daughter –my father still does not understand my gender–

I have not reconciled learning,

I have not reconciled family,

I have not chosen –

I did not know the language

But I know of the gods, feeling of the faith –

Body, feeling of the faith…

I still push my memories back –

But you choose not to —

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So let the words of our mouth

And the meditation of our heart

Be acceptable in Thy sight, oh Far I

So let the words of our mouth

And the meditation of our heart

Be acceptable in Thy sight, oh

Be acceptable in Thy sight, oh Far I [1]

…

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-Words and lyrics remembered from the performance of Ni’Ja Whitson’s Oba Qween King Baba — Excerpt One, March 15th, 2018

2.

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The ghosts and spirits –

How and why –

Is it that I feel undeniably drawn to this praying ground?

I am familiar with this feeling –

A feeling of faith that I can know with my body and breath and memories –

My father and his father and his grandfather, they must have known

 My mother and her mother and her grandmother, they must have felt

  Of these ghosts and spirits

It is that same feeling of fables that I clinged when I lost my land –

It is that same feeling of faith that I found when I found new land –

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내 입술의 말과 나의 마음에 묵상이

주께 열납되길 원하네

내 입술의 말과 나의 마음에 묵상이

주께 열납되길 원하네 [2]

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-In response to Ni’Ja Whitson’s performance Oba Qween King Baba — Excerpt One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NcbyzqILd8

Rivers of Babylon by The Melodians