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
Youth and Family Workshop: TBD
E-mail education@jackstraw.org for information or to sign up.
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
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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