Resident Artists
Cian Dayrit
Cian (b. 1989, Quezon City) is an artist and activist who works across installation, textile, archival interventions, and community-based workshops to discuss themes of power, memory, and space in the context of the global south. He re-activates institutional formats such as museums, maps, and mass media to challenge dominant narratives and highlight the struggles of the marginalized sectors.
Veronica Lazo
Veronica Lazo (b. 1990) received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. An industrial designer, her works are commentaries that respond to current events and contexts of the times. From the intimacy of self and personal narratives to the monumentality of state, Lazo re-appropriates forms and images to highlight the contradictions of present-day situations. Her design practice aims for relatability and closeness of objects in relation to shared human experiences.
andi vicente
andi (they/them) is a visual artist currently based in Mohawk Territory (Montreal, Canada). Their work has been exhibited in gallery spaces but for the most part are produced in public settings or in the form of zines. andi’s approach to their practice is humbled and radicalized by their work with different communities. andi aims to broaden an understanding of layered and complex experiences by encouraging collective empowerment.
Joar Songcuya
Joar Songcuya (Philippines) is a sailor, a marine engineer, and a self-taught artist. He has been sailing the world for almost a decade as a marine engineer and has traveled to over 50 countries and 86 international shipping ports and terminals worldwide. Exploring the interiority of the ocean in his art, Joar's Seamanship Project won this year's NoExit Grant from Para Site Hong Kong.
Jao San Pedro
Jao is a visual artist and interdisciplinary designer based in Manila, Philippines. Her work is an inquiry into the body within the context of space, identity, form, and structure. In her entwined process of meditation and making, she attempts to disrupt the binary that limits and informs our preconceptions of physicality and being. She interweaves fiber, textiles, pattern, and repetition to form a systematized language and concretize the abstract.
Kristone Capistrano
Kristone Capistrano is a Philippine-born contemporary artist working across an expanded field of drawing and portraiture, ranging from works on paper, the moving image and participatory collaborations. His practice is shaped by the Incarnational traditions of Filipino figurative art, approaching the human face as a mysterious site of transcendence.
Zeus Bascon
Zeus (b. 1987, Laguna) is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the self and its relation to the factors that surround our being—personal narratives, issues of identity, and impacts of super/natural forces. Through installations, paintings, and sculptural wood assemblages, he forms narratives—revealing glimpses of truths abstracted from the various and intersecting personal life histories that somehow define a current state of being.
Archie Oclos
Archie (b. 1989, Rizal) is a street artist/muralist whose body of work focuses on the plights of farmers and indigenous people, while also expressing other urgent socio-political themes. His creative process involves extended immersions in remote communities, field research (usually in the form of oral histories), and site exploration and selection. For him, the artist is merely the messenger, lending voice to the stories shared with him by a community.
Archie collaborated with the artists Charles Salazar and Dennis Bato during his residency period.
crwn
crwn is the electronic music project of Manila-based producer, songwriter, and beat-maker King Puentespina (b. 1993, Quezon City). King debuted his solo work in 2014 after years of releasing music with his band, She’s Only Sixteen. Since then, he’s worked with the likes of Jess Connelly (How To Love, 2015) & August Wahh (Labyrinth, 2019) on 2 EPs. He’s also released 2 beat tapes, Tommy Gun (2016) & Orchid (2018), and a number of singles, with Moment to Moment (2020) being his most recent.
Anna Canlas
Anna (b. 1987, Mandaluyong) is a writer and editor based out of Antipolo, Rizal. As a young girl she would write on index cards fairy tales with female protagonists, which have carried over into her present day work: personal essays absorbed with themes of femininity and internally derived power. Dwelling on productive ill feelings, painful things that can become humor or wisdom, she is in love with writing that generates new thought. But is also, due to her training, journalistic. Descriptions of magic in not-so-magic places, best friends, and male characters set up her worlds; as do observations on hyperlocal culture while it is still wet. Writing in color and scenes, she reports from the field with a semi-gloss from years of working in fashion magazines. Strong in essays and Q&A’s, Anna is exploring fiction, starting (again) with short stories.