Thanks to the curatorial team, Adam Levine, Ana Barajas, Bianca Weeko Martin, Gillian McIntyre, and Tahnee Pantig for inviting us to collaborate. | Jo SiMalaya Alcampo and Althea Balmes of Kwentong Bayan Collective were honoured to serve as community consultants (along with many other artists, academics and community folks from the Filipino and Latinx communities) for the exhibition, Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire. The exhibit brings together more than 200 works of art from Latin America, the Philippines and Spain made between 1492 and 1898. It runs from June 8-to-Oct 10, 2022 at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Kwentong Bayan Collective member Althea Balmes contributed to the Exhibition Audio guide. Her piece is entitled "The Philippines" and it accompanies a map of the country that is presented askew for a reason. Listen here. |
Kwentong Bayan Collective is honoured to announce our 1st international exhibition, opening March 3rd at la Ferme du Buisson in France. We will share work on the current issues, history, and future of Care Work in Canada by Black, Indigenous and Racialized women.
Take Care March 3 – July 21, 2019 la Ferme du Buisson Allée de la Ferme Noisiel, France "Ten artists exhibiting for the first time in France question how activism, mutual aid, feminism, indigenous knowledge, queer desire, creative survival, and a closer relationship to the land can contribute to a better recognition of care as a powerful social and cultural force." Opening Reception & Artist's Roundtable Sunday, March 3, 2019 La Ferme du Buisson with Kwentong Bayan Collective, Steven Eastwood, Sheena Hoszko, Hazel Meyer, Raju Rage, and curator, Christine Shaw MORE INFO
Seed Bombs & Singing Plants
Subtle Technologies Festival Co-Presented with Evergreen Featuring the work of Jo SiMalaya Alcampo Amy Desjarlais (nee Tabobandung) Ester Dulawan Tuldague & Members of Kapwa Collective Sunday June 25th, 2017 11:30 AM to 1 PM Chimney Court in the Children’s Garden at Evergreen Brick Works 550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto Admission is free. All are welcome. In celebration of National Aboriginal Day and the radiance of the Summer solstice, Jo SiMalaya Alcampo and friends will facilitate an all ages seed bomb playshop followed by a performance that features the Singing Plants installation as a live instrument. The afternoon’s activities will include traditional prayers, chants, and a participatory jam session with singing plants and indigenous instruments. PROGRAMME: 11:30-12:00 PM Native Wildflower Seed Bomb Playshop with Kapwa Collective This playshop will feature a hands-on demonstration on how to create seed bombs, an age-old agricultural practice now used for guerrilla farming. Participants will combine seeds, clay and compost into small balls perfect for tossing in places in need of native wildflowers! Singing Plants (Live) 12:00-1:00 PM Amy Desjarlais (nee Tabobandung), Michele Perpaul, and Jen Maramba will open the event with songs from the Sacred Water Journey album. Ester Dulawan Tuldague will share a solidarity statement and talk about the Hudhud, one of the songs that the plants sing. It is a epic chant indigenous to the Ifugao People. Jo SiMalaya Alcampo will introduce the Singing Plants and will invite them to play with us! Kapwa Collective members will engage the audience in an interactive activity that embodies the elements of wind, water, air and fire; and introduce us to the rhythms of Isinay gongs. Kapwa Collective will then invite Jo, Ester, Amy and the audience to join in a group jam session with singing plants and indigenous instruments. Visitors: Singing Plants (Redux)
Subtle Technologies Festival Co-Presented with Evergreen Featuring the work of Jo SiMalaya Alcampo June 3rd–25th, 2017 8am-5pm, Saturdays and Sundays Weekday viewings by request Children’s Garden Greenhouse at Evergreen Brick Works 550 Bayview Avenue, Toronto "An interactive sound art installation situated in the greenhouse of the Brick Works, Alcampo’s singing plants are potted banana plants that respond to human hand gestures to emit soundscapes of Indigenous chants, songs and spoken words. The project’s title “Visitors” calls attention to the insertion of these foreign flora into the otherwise completely native gardens of the Brick Works and raises important questions around responsible horticulture, embedded forms of knowledge and the importance of asking the land for permission to access its resources." - from Subtle Technologies website I am honoured to share Singing Plants Reconstruct Memory at the 4th Annual Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival. Celebrating Indigenous Arts in unceded Algonquin territory. August 19-23, 2015 www.asinabkafestival.org twitter: asinabkafest Jo is speaking on a panel at the Diasporic Intimacies conference on the topic of Sexuality, Collectivity and Indigeneity. She will show work at the group art exhibition and participate in the artist's dialogue. All events are free: http://www.queerfilipinosincanada.ca/ |
jo simalaya alcampo explores memory, healing, and kapwa values through storytelling and community-engaged art
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