films
Maraming: a multi media response of sound, projection and dance to the stories, characters, and images within Maia Cruz Palileo's Long Kwento. Ukulele, Bells, Sungka shells, and popular early 20th century Filipina song styles are expanded, repeated, transformed, and re-imagined into an electronic ambient soundscape by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster. Film projections invoke an aesthetics of busog. Performers Dahlia Nayar and Margaret Sunghe Paek question scripted movements in the gallery, responding to Long Kwento’s provocations to unpack, to remember, to dream, to play.
(2022) durational performance commissioned in conjunction with solo exhibit by Maia Cruz Palileo for Wattis Gallery, San Francisco. Music by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Film by Dahlia Nayar, Movement: Margaret Sunghe Paek and Dahlia Nayar, Costumes: Susan Brennan and D Nayar, Set design: D Nayar in collaboration with Wattis Gallery. Maraming was meant to premiere in 2020, and rescheduled due to the pandemic.