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HATAK 2021
Event Dates: Saturday, September 25 - Sunday, October 31, 2021.
About:
October is Filipino American History Month! As a kick off, six Filipino owned/founded art spaces are introducing themselves and virtually linking together starting on Saturday, September 25, showcasing a variety of work. Join us as we celebrate the arts across the U.S.
“HATAK” is a filipino word used to convey the act of tugging someone along.
Event Dates: Saturday, September 25 - Sunday, October 31, 2021.
About:
October is Filipino American History Month! As a kick off, six Filipino owned/founded art spaces are introducing themselves and virtually linking together starting on Saturday, September 25, showcasing a variety of work. Join us as we celebrate the arts across the U.S.
“HATAK” is a filipino word used to convey the act of tugging someone along.
Visit each space's website to check out their programming for the month of October:
Invite your friends on Eventbrite! Invite your friends on Facebook! |
MATA ART GALLERY PRESENTS
ANTAYUTANI
Curated by Nica Aquino
for HATAK 2021
A collection of experimental performance, video & sound works by Nica Aquino, Batik Maker & Nikki Mae Vizconde Martin.
Antayutani, meaning “we will be projected far” in Indigenous Igorot language of the Northern Philippines, is a concept related to astral projection associated with the region’s gong culture. It refers to the use of Gangsa (gongs) to communicate with neighboring tribes, and its ability to induce trance-like experiences when played at measured rhythmic intervals during celebrations and healing rituals.
Please watch videos from a TV, or computer with earbuds/headphones on for the full experience.
ANTAYUTANI
Curated by Nica Aquino
for HATAK 2021
A collection of experimental performance, video & sound works by Nica Aquino, Batik Maker & Nikki Mae Vizconde Martin.
Antayutani, meaning “we will be projected far” in Indigenous Igorot language of the Northern Philippines, is a concept related to astral projection associated with the region’s gong culture. It refers to the use of Gangsa (gongs) to communicate with neighboring tribes, and its ability to induce trance-like experiences when played at measured rhythmic intervals during celebrations and healing rituals.
Please watch videos from a TV, or computer with earbuds/headphones on for the full experience.
“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
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EYE OF THE FISH (2019) |
Produced by Nica Aquino
Performance by Gunita Collective x Batik Maker
Choreography by Nikki Mae Vizconde Martin
Soundscape, Sound & Video Editing by Batik Maker
Video Documentation by Bobby Bils & Phillip Lomboy
Venue: Center for the Arts, ER
Funded by the California Arts Council & Eastside Arts Initiative
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INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO FOR THE WARRIOR GODDESS (2019-2021) Directed by Nica Aquino Featuring Nikki Mae Vizconde Martin Soundtrack by Batik Maker Videography & Editing by Nica Aquino |
DIRECTIONS:
Step 1: Ask yourself, "Where do I want to be? And how do I get there?" | Step 2: Meditate on it. Activate your third eye. | Step 3: Welcome your subconscious duality. | Step 4: Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty and become wind. (Guru Laghima) | Step 5: Reflect. | Step 6: Practice discipline. | Step 7: Fight your inner demons. | Step 8: Give thanks for your ancestral gifts. | Step 9: Rest. | Step 10: Repeat steps 1-9 as needed.
Step 1: Ask yourself, "Where do I want to be? And how do I get there?" | Step 2: Meditate on it. Activate your third eye. | Step 3: Welcome your subconscious duality. | Step 4: Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty and become wind. (Guru Laghima) | Step 5: Reflect. | Step 6: Practice discipline. | Step 7: Fight your inner demons. | Step 8: Give thanks for your ancestral gifts. | Step 9: Rest. | Step 10: Repeat steps 1-9 as needed.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
- NICA AQUINO is the director of MATA ART GALLERY. You can learn more about her work outside of the gallery through her personal website.
- At it's core, GUNITA COLLECTIVE stands for communal, or collective memory. It represents the intersection of storytelling, performance, and culture. Multidisciplinary in nature, it uses movement artistry, visual expression, and narration to foster critical conversations of re-memory and intergenerational language.
- NIKKI MAE VIZCONDE MARTIN is a first generation Filipina-American creative born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She is currently exploring the intersections of dance, in both traditional and contemporary realms. She holds a B.A in World Arts And Cultures with an emphasis on Dance Performance from the University of California Los Angeles. She is a proud mother and a member of the Gunita Collective.
- CHRISTOPHER ANGELO PEREZ Y˜˜˜NIGUEZ (BATIK MAKER) is a visual artist and musician born and raised between Los Angeles, Manila, and Baguio City, Philippines. Through drawing, sculpture, and sound, he explores themes of ritual, migration and memory, place and identity, and the archipelago. He received his BA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) and works as a research editor in historic media archives
Thank you for another year of Mata Art Gallery! Please consider donating to help us keep this project going. We're a completely not-for-profit creative space funded by the community. We never ask for submission fees or commissions, & artists receive 100% of their artwork sales. Your donations help pay the artists directly & help us continue to sustain this space.
Please send donations to:
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Please send donations to:
🌸 Venmo: @nicaaquino
🌸 PayPal: @nicaaquino (send as friends & family)
🌸 Cash.app: $nicaaquino666
🌸 Zelle: info@mataartgallery.org