Sriwhana Spong's 'HA HA HA' Debuts in Australia with Mist and Balinese Mysticism

Sriwhana Spong's exhibition 'HA HA HA' makes its Australian debut, using mist as a central metaphor for instability and unknowing as a form of knowledge. The show explores Balinese mysticism and refuses cultural reductionism. Spong's practice begins with small encounters—texts, images, organisms, or historical traces—and unfolds nonlinearly through experiential, material, speculative, and historical research. By engaging multiple approaches, she questions how knowledge is produced and makes perceptible different ways of knowing. The work draws on parallel, past, and unperceived currents, reveling in plurality that awakens senses to other beings and languages. This method advocates for relational living over hermetic isolation. The exhibition is presented by an unnamed Australian institution, with details on venue and dates not specified in the source.