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Annie Wong, Burial For a Hungry Ghost (detail), 2024. Still. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Burial for a Hungry Ghost

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Burial for a Hungry Ghost is a lecture-performance that stages a ceremonial farewell for Ghost Tape #10, a psychological warfare tool deployed by the US military during the Vietnam-American War. This sonic-spiritual weapon, designed to instill fear and psychological distress, becomes the spectral center of artist Annie Wong’s inquiry into sound as both a weapon and a vessel for memory, resistance, and mourning.

Through a series of encounters that traverse the divided landscapes of North and South Vietnam, the story-telling performance traces the ideological battlegrounds encoded in sound—propaganda Red music, banned Western music, and Buddhist chants. By weaving together these distinct registers, Burial for a Hungry Ghost listens for the echoes of past struggles reconciling the ways in which sound has been wielded to command, console, and control.

At its core, the work is an act of reckoning, both political and spiritual. As Annie stages the burial of this manufactured ghost, she simultaneously asks: How do we listen to history’s phantoms without becoming captive to them? Through this layered engagement with sound, video, and storytelling, Burial for a Hungry Ghost extends beyond historical documentation into a speculative ritual—one that gestures toward sonic and spiritual relief, remembrance, and the possibility of release.

PLEASE NOTE: Latecomers will not be permitted after the performance begins. Please arrive 15 minutes prior and allow ample time for travelling to the venue.

This performance will feature ASL interpreters throughout the entire performance.

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Curated by
Jaclyn Quaresma
ASL
Date / Time
April 14, 2025
1:00PM – 2:30PM EDT
Location
Innis Town Hall

2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Sidewalk-level entrance, elevator and ramp available, door width 32 inches, no automatic doors. No accessible parking on-site. Four wheelchair accessible seats in the cinema. 15 step-free seats in row 9. Accessible gender-neutral washroom located on the 2nd and 3rd floor. Please note that there is construction on site; the venue remains accessible.

For a map to Innis Town Hall, click here

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Annie Wong
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Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.