During my time at Building 21, I hope to investigate the following: How does one write on the things that hurt? Things that hurt in a kind of hurt that is visceral and apocalyptic; a hurt that haunts and makes us see what Dumit calls "the intolerable in the everyday."

My name is Khando Langri and I recently completed an undergraduate degree at McGill in Anthropology and Political Science over the course of which I developed a strong interest in embodied knowledge and human geography. My project struggles with and against form in order to understand the act of self-immolation in the Tibetan community. As a Tibetan, I have long been interested in thinking about self-immolation through the lens of space given that it spatializes trauma; a movement which has tremendous impact on collective understandings of self and place in a time of seeming placelessness. Gathering affective fragments I have encountered over the years and unwittingly collected (namely photographs and poetry), I will work through desire as methodology in order to tease out an analysis arguing for landscape as archive and the body as geographic.