because a volcano knows chasm.

March 21, 2024 at 6:00pm | MadArt Studio

House of Kilig (HOK) responds to New York-based artist Sara Jimenez’s multimedia sculptural installation why should our bodies end at the skin? with a sound and movement performance.

In response to the themes and structures of Jimenez’s exhibition, HOK weaves diasporic Pacific Rim animist storytelling into a mesmerizing multisensory event, because a volcano knows chasm. Live sound accompaniment by multidisciplinary artist and musician enereph joins with audio elements from HOK's project Harana for the Aswang, including a polyphonic poem reading and deconstructed "Moon River" sound score. Built in the format of an eruption, this soundscape supports lava-inspired movement performances, directed by Moonyeka in collaboration with dancers Jamuna Kaur and Gabriel Colón.

Custom costumes designed by Heidi Grace Acuña blend into the tumbling swaths of fuschia and black cloth to distort the boundaries of Jimenez’s sculptural volcano.

Director: Moonyeka

Dancers: Gabriel Colón, Moonyeka, Jamuna Kaur

Costume Designer: Heidi Grace Acuña

Live sound accompaniment: enereph

Additional contributors: Amori, Athena, Freddie Lee Toyoda, kai, nawa