anotherspace
4 Filipinx-American Artists Transform Space
at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock; Eagle Rock, CA
4 Filipinx-American Artists Transform Space
at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock; Eagle Rock, CA
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New Works By:
Michelle Castillo // Cirilo Domine // Philip Košćak // Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza // Curated by Nica Aquino Show Statement: As Filipinxs in the U.S. diaspora, we are often left wondering: What is our place here? As settlers in Native Californian lands, we’ve all arrived to this destination on different terms. Whether our families immigrated here in search of opportunities, we came here alone, or were born here, we all interpret our place here differently. We adapt our own spaces that shape our histories & develop our individual identities. For this exhibition, 4 Filipinx-American artists working in sculpture & installation were invited to transform their own spaces in the CFAER gallery, highlighting their unique visions & individual interpretations of space & place. As Filipinxs in the US diaspora, how do we hold our space here? Through this exhibition, artists will create imagined spaces — questioning how we access & exist in them. |
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Exhibition Dates:
Opening Reception: Friday, November 8, 2019, 6-9PM On View: November 8 – November 27, 2019 Closing Reception: Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 6-9PM Artist led walk-through moderated by Jennelyn Lonzon Tumalad |
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041 (323)561-3044 x222 Gallery Hours: 11AM-5PM, M-F, closed weekends |
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Lola's Sari-Sari Store Programming:
Lola’s Sari-Sari Store is Open! Interactive Hours Friday, November 22, 2019, 6:30-8:30PM Bring something to trade for an item in Lola’s Sari-Sari store & come have a chat with Michelle Castillo, sari-sari store creator! Lola’s Moringa/Marunggay Workshop at Eagle Rock Plaza Saturday, November 23, 2019, 1:30-2:30PM |
Eagle Rock Plaza
2700 Colorado Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041 |
Opening Reception Programming:
Friday, November 8, 2019, 6-9PM
Friday, November 8, 2019, 6-9PM
- Doors open 6PM
- Live debut performance collaboration by Batik Maker + Gunita Collective starting 8PM.
- Bring something to trade for items in Lola’s Sari-Sari store! (by Michelle Castillo — an interactive, socially engaged installation) Lola’s Sari-Sari store installation will function as an alternative economy where folx can swap an item/create something/for store items! At the store, you can create a poem, share a recipe, a story, write a letter to a loved one, make a drawing on the themes of migration, home, homeland, culture, family, and community.
- Suggested Items to Swap:
Fruits & Vegetables, Leave a note with one of your family recipes, share something from your culture, used books, vinyl, plants, and flowers. (Donations in any form are also accepted as an exchange)
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.
"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.
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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, Eye of the Fish
"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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Photos courtesy of CFAER & Nica Aquino.
