PROGRAMMING ARCHIVE:



​INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER
with Rialin José

When? December 5-18, 2022
Where? Instagram @mata.art.gallery

Learn more about our featured artist, Rialin José. This Instagram Takeover program will show viewers more about the artist, her background, inspiration, her solo exhibition with Mata Art Gallery, and more in her own words and perspective.

Save the date and join us for an interactive Instagram Stories Q&A with the artist on Saturday, December 18.
INTERACTIVE STORIES Q&A:
Saturday, December 17 - Sunday, December 18, 2023

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​QUESTIONS, PROMPTS & RESPONSES:
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INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER:
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OPENING PERFORMANCE:

Sayaw ng Pagitan (≈ Dance of Distance)
By Xuvenir

​Premiered Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 5PM (PT) on YouTube

We highly recommend you watch the performance from a larger screen and listen with headphones or external speakers.

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We highly recommend you watch the performance from a larger screen and listen with headphones or external speakers.
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About the Performance:
​Sayaw ng Pagitan (≈ Dance of Distance) (2022) is the debut video performance work of LA-based Filipino-American experimental project Xuvenir. Sayaw presents a series of collaged travel footage set to a soundtrack of field recordings and live gong and electronics improvisations, samples, and loops. These elements amount to a visual compression of space, place, and time as well as the marriage of ancient and modern sound technologies emerging in-tension, suspended on the cusp of legibility.

Xuvenir owes its existence to a questioning about our diasporic identities and, in the case of Sayaw, our relationship to the gangsa (gongs): an Indigenous ceremonial and celebratory instrument of the Philippines’ Mt. Province. With Sayaw, we consider the production of a speculative spatial and sonic imaginary by asking ourselves: If the Indigenous Igorot concept of antayutani (“we will be projected far”) signifies a transmission of gangsa frequencies across vast distances, what then would that signal sound like as received from afar? Furthermore, in the interval, or space (pagitan) between sender and receiver, how might the projected sound expand, contract, deform, fracture, or even erase itself during transit?
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