Bumalik ~ to return
Constellation 1 ~ CageDURATIONAL PERFORMANCE
MARIE LLOYD PASPE, PAULINA MENESES,
TREYA LAM, SUGAR VENDIL, CHING-I CHANG
ALVIN AILEY THEATER NYC, NY 2023
GREENSPACE STUDIOS NYC, NY 2023
GALLIM RESIDENCY NYC, NY 2023
“bumalik” (Tagalog for “to return”), a durational performance installation that integrates a bamboo sculpture, movement, and sound, explores the psychological and socioeconomic challenges the Filipinx diaspora face displaced from their ancestral homes. Centering narratives of Filipina oversea workers and their children, - oversea labour accounts for more than 20% of the Filipino economy, of which 70% are femme - this piece excavates the complex experiences and emotions of migration and uprootedness: the disorientation/reorientation within environment and place, the duality that exists between racialized opportunity and oppression, and the internalized effects of hypersexualization and violence in the cis-white-patriarchal world. This interdisciplinary cast weave together intergenerational stories of the perpetual process of “reinhabiting the skin” in hopes to find a sense of “home,” amidst these challenges and traumas. Set within a bamboo sculpture, which in moments becomes a forest, nipa hut, seashell and cage, there is a constant activation of memory between the body, the sexualized, the natural, and the built. The intention of the interdisciplinary nature of ‘bumalik’ is to merge, acknowledge and give voice to the multidimensionality of Filipina diasporic stories and experiences that are otherwise erased, silenced or in the shadows.
Constellation 2 ~ Borders
Constellation 3 ~ Package
Constellation 3 ~ Pile
Constellation 2 ~ Borders
