Nica Aquino
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      • 2019 Filipino-American Artist Directory
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      • 2015 Merrie Monarch Ho'ike
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Opening Reception Performance:
"Eye of the Fish" a debut performance collaboration with Gunita Collective x Batik Maker for the opening of anotherspace, curated and produced by Nica Aquino.

Please watch from a computer or bigger screen with headphones or good speakers for the full experience.
Video documentation by Bobby Bils.
Cover photo by Joshua Parr.

“Living at the edge of the sea breeds an intuitive sense that somewhere deep within us are the remnants of fish consciousness, a piscine, subaqueous feeling for the abyss. Well aware of being separate from continents, we glorify this condition, looking upon the vast intervals of water as moats protecting delicate kingdoms. Reminded incessantly by the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean and by a sky of ferocious typhoons and unforgiving light, that there are more worlds than one, that land slopes under into a realm of reef, algae and leviathan as well as above. We acknowledge a tightly circumscribed existence on a terra that is not so firma, an acknowledgment that celebrates mortality. In death every human becomes an island floating in a primordial lake.” -Luis H. Francia
"Nica Aquino curated another show and it was cathartic. Y and I definitely teared up during the performance. Everyone had their own interpretation, but we saw a piece that told the story of the birth of Native peoples, colonization and imprisonment, separation of Native peoples and their homelands, trauma, then reunification and healing through community. I've never been hit with such a wave of emotion with a performance piece and I just want to thank Nica for the opportunity to experience that."
Thank you to VXS for the kind review.
Video documentation by Phil Lomboy.
Cover photo by VXS.
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