XSCENA

A Scenography Exhibition

July 12 – 17, 2021

XSCENA’s iteration: recon/figures, sought to push artists to build upon notions of place given how that has invariably changed for us the past year, and given how the bodies that these spaces cradle have been incontrovertibly altered.

Here are the figures of these times, performing survival and sanity, undoing and becoming—all acts of reckoning as these are acts of reconnaissance.

This is XSCENA, A Scenography Exhibition.

Schedule

How have your notions of comfort been transformed by entrapment?

Catch Lawyn Cruz’s Batong-Bato, every afternoon at 5:00PM and 5:30PM, July 12 to 15, on XSCENA Instagram Stories.

Lawyn Cruz’s experimental work is informed by a keen understanding of set design and scenography practices across various types of productions, vis a vis the interrogation of space, the objects it carries, the moments it cradles, and how its reimagination allows for our own re-sensing of the familiar.

In what ways have we performed our survival?

Catch Langgam Performance Troupe’s Thread/Warp with Jenny Logico-Cruz and J.A. Sarmogenes. July 14 2021, 9:00AM to 9:00PM on Zoom. Link to follow.

Langgam Performance Troupe is at the forefront of contemporary experimental work in the Philippines, taking time as it does for thoughtful research and careful critique, while forging spaces for collaborative practice and productive dialogue.

How does the solitary body respond to collective memory?

Catch Sari Saysay and Sining Banwa’s Tuninong na Girumdom, every evening at 6:00PM from July 12 to 16 on the XSCENA Facebook Page.

Sining Banwa and Sari Saysay are trailblazers in community cultural work, where performance unfolds in multifarious ways that capture the interdisciplinarity of collaboration, the urgency of citizenship, and the communal experience of creativity.

What rituals have kept us rooted in a time of placelessness?

Catch Bunny Cadag’s Transpositions on July 16, 5:00PM, on the XSCENA Facebook Page.

Bunny Cadag’s journey as an artist is a performance of transformation that is bound to her solitary re-discovery of a historical rootedness in the pre-colonial, which expands upon the contemporary notions of gender and sexuality, art-making and creativity, place and community.

Her project for XSCENA takes from the processes of migration, questions of place, and creation of ritual as Bunny has experienced it the past pandemic year.

How much of our humanity is captured by technology?

Catch JayLo Conanan’s @x on Tiktok, July 12 to 15, and the @x cast party on Zoom on July 16.

JayLo Conanan is a multi-hyphenated cultural worker who has built a body of work in mainstream stage and costume design, while honing a keen interest in technology and the changes, shifts, and crises these create for those involved in the making of performances, as well as those who remain interested in our notions of humanity.

Curated by Tuxqs Rutaquio & Katrina Stuart Santiago