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In this performance-lecture, Ho's actual installation is replaced by projected images, Ho currently considers the installation form of Utama as a fossil - a remnant to be resurrected in lecture form: 'live', immediate, logical and economical. Utama - Every Name in History is I is an attempt to summon forth the 'ghost' of Utama - Sang Nila Utama is the mythical pre-colonial king who saw a lion and called the land, Lion City or Singapore. There has never been on Utama, but many - an ambiguous multiplicity of possible identities, and a mad proliferation of names. It is this very ambiguity at the heart of ontology, which this project affirms as a possibility of self-invention.