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    • Pamahiin / Ritual This!
    • Guided By Clouds
    • Singing Plants
    • 5 stages of decolonization
    • beneath the barong
    • a new world is being born...
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    • re/connections I
    • re/connections II
    • siya
    • manila bay collage
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    • (un)silenced film
    • rice is life
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selected installations


Pamahiin / Ritual This!

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_an interactive mixed media installation that explores how Filipino artists and cultural workers can actively engage with indigenous knowledge systems and practices as ritual while not becoming "culture-vultures" of our own kultura.  Read more

Guided By Clouds (2012)

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a journey of toy camera love guided by clouds.  a soul left in the cordillera mountains.  a longing to reconnect.

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singing plants reconstruct memory

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Living plants are keepers of story and history in this interactive installation using sculpture, sound art, and electronics. Participants touch the plants and they sing, play indigenous instruments, and tell a story of remembrance.   Read more

5 Stages of Decolonization

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This mixed media installation focuses on the experience of Filipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World Fair and is a step toward the five stages of decolonization: Recovery, Mourning, Dreaming, Commitment, and Action.  Read more

Beneath the Barong

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This act of gender/TROUBLING explores race, gender, sexuality and sexy Elvis eyebrows.  Read more

old world is dying, but a new world is being born

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This mixed media work encourages participants to interact with Philippine culture using sculpture, gesture-triggered instruments and sound installation.
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