Moonyeka and House of Kilig | flourish like an ocean’s grief.
May 31 – July 26, 2024
Opening reception: Friday, May 31, 7pm
In person at Jack Straw
Artist Talk: Friday, July 26, 7pm
In person and streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live
flourish like an ocean’s grief. is an interdisciplinary installation that weaves deconstructed elements of Moonyeka and House of Kilig’s audio-visual-performance research, Harana for The Aswang.
Harana is a Filipinx-Southern Americas serenade song form rooted in courtship and grief rituals. This excerpt challenges and re-myths the Siren archetype through a prism of queer and trans perspective; creating a polyphonic experience of voice, poetic-intimacy, wrath and states of kilig.
We invite attendees to linger with the Siren through this interplay of projection, CCTV imagery, audio experiments, sound scores, shimmering mylar, and sea shells.
*Aswang is an umbrella term for various shapeshifting, mythological, animist, folkloric, “evil” spirits and creatures in Filipino folklore.
Directed by Moonyeka
Videography – Amori
Editor – V Babida
Editor & CCTV Installation – Arabella Bautista
Sculptural Art & Costume Design – Heidi Grace Acuña
Vocals & Sound:
Amori
Athena Herington
Freddie Lee Toyoda
Izumi Nance
Theo
kai alviar horton
Cast:
Olivia Stevens (dancer)
Gaby Colon (dancer)
Sam Choi (cast)
Mix & Mastering: Karinyo
Artists
Moonyeka
nawa a.h., widely known as Moonyeka (they/he/she) is a chimeric creator who takes shape in and beyond containers of interdisciplinary performing art, writing, and brujxeria.
With roots…
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