In becoming god, Melyn Chow seeks contact with the sacred other that was once kept from her. Melyn grew up in a first-generation Christian family in Singapore. She was taught to fear her father's family temple in Malaysia, seen as unclean, spiritually dangerous, a place to be avoided. Any gods beyond the Christian ones were viewed with suspicion and treated as taboo.

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becoming god emerges from a desire to explore precisely the space she was raised to reject: an inquiry that pulses with risk, tenderness, contradiction, and a longing to meet the divine on uncertain terms. In a society that has largely lost its sense of the sacred, the performance opens a compelling space for ritual, transcendence, and transformation.

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