SALTY XI JIE NG 黄晞竭 - THE COSMOS WAIT FOR YOU
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  • experiments & some images

--- Contemplating the Lingering Mythology of Whaling program
A Whaling Descendant Performs In Four Acts

(see also The Alternative Moby-Dick Marathon)

Collaborative project with Charlie Chace
Supported by New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park's Artist Fellowship Program as well as an Artist Residency at UMass Dartmouth Center for Visual & Performing Arts
2020, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

In an intergenerational, intercontinental film collaboration, a whaling descendant contemplates his lineage, anthropomorphism, and the lingering mythology of whaling. He is inside the belly of a whale. He is everyone before him who killed a whale. He is a whale. Can whaling mean ‘being a whale’?

Performed by Charlie Chace (Vice President, Descendants of Whaling Masters; New Bedford Whaling Museum docent)
Directed by Salty Xi Jie Ng (Artist Fellow, New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park; Artist in Residence, UMass Dartmouth Center for Visual & Performing Arts)

The film was screened virtually at New Bedford's May AHA! night. The post-screening dialogue was moderated by project dramaturg artist Eli Nixon and featured conversation with Charlie Chace, Salty Xi Jie Ng and guest Michael Dyer (Curator of Maritime History, New Bedford Whaling Museum).


The Contemplating The Lingering Mythology of Whaling program explores interspecies connection, and, on a befittingly large scale, what it means to be a mammalian being in the cosmos. As part of the program, this film was presented at the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park in September 2021, alongside The 2021 Alternative Moby-Dick Marathon.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO of CONTEMPLATING THE LINGERING MYTHOLOGY OF WHALING program or just the film below.
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