SIPA – Solidarity In Performance Art
2016-2022 Manila. Philippines
“Solidarity in Performance as Critical Exchange” – Multi-generational team work as pedagogy for peace and diversity
Boyet De Mesa (PH)
Lives and work in Manila, a cultural worker, visual / performance artist . Since 2017, Boyet has been a lecturer, within the Department of Philosophy and Humanities (DPH), at the College of Arts and Letters (CAL) and at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
He has exhibited his works and performed in and out of the country since 1994 to date. Boyet is focused on the development of performance art in the Philippines since its re-establishment in 2000. Part of Tupada Action and Media Art 2002-2012. In 2016 he founded Solidarity in Performance Art Festival. He is the convener/director of SIPA (Solidarity In Performance Art) festival, an international performance art festival initiated by performance artists in the Philippines, which promotes peace and solidarity through performance/art.
He is an active organizer and convener of the international performance art movement in the world since 2006. He is one of the founder of TransNational Coalition of the Arts, recently formed at the advent of Myanmar crisis in March. He also coordinates the Equinox Solidarity, in the Philippines. Equinox is a worldwide performance action.
A son of a jeepney driver and former Barangay councilor. Married and with two children.
Rogger Basco (PH)
He has been a member of Tupada Action & Media Arts (TAMA) since 2011 and is currently part of SIPA’s secretariat. He has won awards in Painting & Sculpture, Dance Choreography, Music and Video Art Basco has served for 38 years as an educator and cultural officer at De La Salle Lipa. He founded K.A.R.I.B.O.K. a local performing arts group [formado por profesores y alumnos] that performs in the province of Batangas and in Manila.
His works were featured in EATOPIA 2nd Taiwan International Video Art (TIVA) 2010, International MultiMedia Art Festival – Myanmar 2012, Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities international arts festival in Finland 2013 and Pixels OF IDENTITIES – THE BODY LANGUAGE in BOGOTÁ 2016
John Andre Sarmogenes (PH)
Jo-An Sarmogenes is a multidisciplinary artist. He has participated in several exhibitions at De La Salle Lipa, under the tutelage of Rogger Basco. He has dedicated himself to performance art inspired by Salvador Ching, which led him to be part of the international performance art festival TAMA (Tupada Action and Media Art) in 2009. During its Diskurso series, he was part of the collective’s documentation committee. Since then he has also honed his skills as a photographer, attending workshops at the Philippine Center for Creative Imaging, guided and supported by Tilak Hettige. In 2018 she became part of several Langgam Performance Troupe projects including Somewhere Else Instead, [KOSMOS] online performances including Lacuna Festival (distance), and Tread/Warp, an entry in XSCENA, a set design exhibition of the Production Design Department at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. Currently one of the Board of Directors in Langgam Performance Troupe.
Ulap Chua (PH)
CHUA, Ulap (b. 1999) is a budding performance-maker, filmmaker, and photographer based in the Philippines. He positions himself and his works based on the spirit of inquiry and collaboration, often executing narratives through optical mediums. He artistically spearheads Parang Kolektib, an artist organization whose goal is to create provocative works that blur the line between stage and screenplay. He also generates artistic projects with various organizations such as: SIPA Pilipinas, Concerned Artists of the Philippines, Buklod Sining Organization and Sining-Lahi Polyrepertory.
Lalaine Rebong (PH)
Lalaine is an artist based in the Philippines who widely explores different art forms. As a child I would draw pictures on draft paper, fold them and pretend they were book covers. Growing up, she also took part in the world of musical performance by joining pop bands as a bassist and backup vocalist. When she started college, she joined her university’s resident student theater organization (PUP Sining-Lahi Polyrepertory) and attended a theater workshop for a year. She became more invested and committed to her craft and eventually became the organization’s 40th Season Creative Director.
Her main craft focuses on translating the stores and message through visual designs in both motion and still graphics. She uses her knowledge of theatre and music to develop concepts in her designs. She works as a full-time graphic designer while continuing to pursue projects and collaborations with different artists in the community.
Because of his desire to explore, he became interested in joining and studying performance creation. As a beginner, she is in the process of understanding the form better by starting with herself and creating a concrete foundation for her future works. She is eager to learn more and experience different things that the world could offer.
Dyan Corachea (PH)
Dyan Corachea has a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Film at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. Aside from being a professional digital marketing coordinator, she works for an independent artist-run initiative in her province of Quezon and has collaborated with different local and international artists exhibiting with different practices related to community, art appreciation, collaboration and education. Her previous student works focused on documentary, experimental and narrative film. Some of which was screened in regional film festivals, national and international conferences including FilmAsia 2015 in Kobe, Japan, Hidden Cinema Screening in Ayala Museum, PH and etc.
WEDNESDAY 9 DE NOVEMBER 2022 – 22:00 ARGENTINIAN TIME (ENGLISH)
VIRTUAL Conversation via Zoom + YouTube LIVE
CONTINGENT conversations: RUTH VIGUERAS BRAVO, Two Looks, Three Records, MEXICO
book presentation by Ruth Vigueras Bravo
CONTINGENT conversation: MAYA RIVERA and GUSTAVO ÁLVAREZ, Performance o die, MEXICO
Maya Rivera y Gustavo Álvarez