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Wake, Butterfly: Game with Amelia Bande

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The only way you can be normal in a society like this is to be complicit with things that are inhuman - it's lying to yourself about what this world inflicts on billions of people.

Chilean-born writer Amelia Bande reflects on living with scleroderma as both literal and metaphorical entrapment, connecting her autoimmune illness to growing up under Pinochet's dictatorship. She challenges artists to confront complicity rather than deny the inhumanity of normalcy, and offers a poetic game as creative prompt.

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