PAGASA: A Performance Lecture by Chia Amisola
Final date and time to be confirmed
PAGASA is a performance-lecture about anthropomorphized calamities, satellite mythologies, Diwata-1, heavenly sensing, and animist belief. This its first online presentation.
In three acts — PAGASA, Diwata-1 (the first Filipino-made microsatellite), Visayan creation stories, the anthropomorphized storms I grew up with, animist belief, and new technological myths — are relived, simulated, soothed, and narrativized in a new oral history. Diwata-1 is named after environmental spirits that once formed, serenaded, and guarded the natural world — now, she has become an all-sensing figure blessed for her all-seeing objectivity — but she sees only through compression, reduction, flattening.
This is an online event. It will not be recorded. It is a live, networked performance altered for the screen.
All proceeds go to the Mendiola protestors, through the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines.
This event is part of Developh's 'Weather Weather Lang', a programming series on the tropics' experience of climate, weather, and atmosphere amidst today's technologies.
About the artist
Chia Amisola is an internet artist, Product Designer at Figma, and Executive Director of Developh. Their websites, performances, games, and tools explore the identities, intimacies, and infrastructures of the web, particularly from the third world experience. They are based between Manila and New York.
About Developh
Developh is an arts & research institution nurturing critical and creative technologies, working towards a more archipelagic internet. As a community of practice, we gather, publish, research, and create to reclaim technology as a tool for liberation rather than oppression. Our activations concern the online, offline, and in-between.