Between 2018 and 2019, I spent 5 months in the Kingdom of Tonga to research mining as part of a project spanning Brazil, the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Philippines. This work was supported through residencies at ‘Atenisi Institute in Tonga, the East-West Center in Hawai’i and Tropical Futures Institute in the Philippines. 

* JOURNALISM & ART

While living in Australia, I got to interview environmentalists, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, White Nationalists, mining activists, artists and farmers. I have written articles and produced radio features on art, environment, and social justice for media outlets such SBS Radio, Art Monthly Australasia, Runway Journal, and KBR Radio’s Asia Calling. Some of this material, including interviews and video documentation, has also led to exhibitions at Firstdraft and 55 Sydenham Rd in Australia.

View complete list of works here and selected pieces below.

* “Coal mines and climate change: Australia's Adani controversy” for Asia Calling on KBR Radio (Id/Au)

* Text, video, and interviews (audio) in “In the Shadows of History” for Runway Journal (Au)

* Interview with Dr. Jackie Huggins featured in “Indigenous Australians demand recognition and participation” for Asia Calling on KBR Radio (Id/Au)

* Interview with farmer Chris Orr featured in SBS Radio podcast and part of my project “Harvest”

Various projects:

* Claiming / Making, 2020-2022

* Fauna / Flora, 2019-2020

* Harvest, 2016-2017

* Work 37.5 150 1800 hrs, 2017

* Our Islands, 2015-2016

* COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS

In the past decade, I have maintained a collaborative art and research practice on Bantayan Island in the Philippines - my paternal home. Organizing actions, including film screenings, discussions, and audio-video documentation has allowed me to work on exhibitions and write articles about dispossession and cultural loss. In this context, I have exhibited at the Mori Art Museum (Japan) and presented at ASEAN Foundation’s Climate Futures #1 in Indonesia. I am also a founding member and researcher at GOODLand.

* “Tagpanalipod II, archival-based art project at GOODland (Ph)

* "Tidal" (under the collaborative name DAKOgamay) at the University of  Hawai'i at Mānoa Art Gallery (Ph)

* Grant proposal, project activities  & project report for "Para sa Aton (For Us)" funded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (Ph) & Dienst Kunst en Cultuur (Nl)

* Project report & activities for "Gilubong ang Akon Pusod sa Dagat (My Navel is Buried in the Sea)"