After is NOW
…When stories becomes possibilities
It renews the past, refiguring it as a contingent ‘in between’ space, that innovates and interrupts the performance of the present
“Riung mungpulung: bari ngariung, urang mulung”
In times they gather in one place, with food
dishes and snacks, rice and vegetables,
water or tea, coffee and rice wine
placed in the center or distributed around
They eat, they chat, they laugh and tell stories
Old couple to their grandchildren,
Girls and boys, ladies to husbands
Neighbors to neighbors
priests, puun and caretaker
Eat and drink and tell stories,
From small groups to larger ones
From terraces to the sacred ground
After is NOW, after is today. This blog is now a free space. This space is intended to be a space that shall be defined by riung mungpulung and so become a place. I hope for people to gather and come, riung mungpulung in this place. I hope it would become a place where people could "scavenge" - take information provided for free, and then tell stories and participate with comentaries, feedbacks, inputs and critics.
I invite you to take part, whether as girl or boy, lady or husband, priest, puun or caretaker. Let us gather and riung mungpulung, from small group to larger one - and re-describe our contemporaneity.
For the 'sake' of today and belief of "always better" tomorrow,
Salam,
Salam,
Agnes Stephania Astrapia
Barcelona 2011
