Serbisyo Project
HIDDEN ECONOMIES
Serbisyo is a curated collection of devised performance vignettes on affective labor and the service industries. All featured works, created by different artists and weaved together by the Sipat Lawin Ensemble, reveal varying service identities that exist within the hidden fabric of societies. Looking at the artist as host, and art as performative labor, Serbisyo leads audiences from the public to the concealed, from the outside and peripheral, into the theater, its backstage, the chambers and hallways buried underneath, revealing unseen economies.
TOUCH OF ASIA
JK Anicoche
Touch of Asia is an 3-hour one-man show in which the artist performs a mass massage. The artist is put in the position of a masseur providing service. The audiences can choose to watch or participate.
Challenging the intricacies and intimacies of touch and being touched in private public space, the artist / masseur reads the narratives of the bodies and moves his body and the audience participant in shared movement/ choreography.
Experience the Touch of Asia! Watch and/or be seen. Listen and/or be listened to. Touch and be touched. Move and be moved. Heal and be healed.
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Artist Profile: JK Anicoche
Artistic Director. Sipat Lawin Ensemble
W:AC WARNING: ADULT CONTENT
SARAH SALAZAR X DETSY UY
Warning: Adult Content reveals the world of digital laborers who specialize in serving online affection. An immersive work that exists in both the real and the cyber, artists invite audiences to penetrate a hidden but thriving industry. Lured by the promise of easy financial success, audience applicants are transported to a humble Manila office where they are briefed on how to survive as disguised “Lovers” in dating and hook-up sites.
Warning: Adult Content is an introduction to a private profession that persists through seduction and feeds on manufactured desires. It guarantees satisfaction.
GIVE ME CHOCOLATE
Natsuki Ishigami
When my country was occupied, children told the enemy “give me
chocolate!” in the enemy’s language. It’s a bitter and sweet memory.
But what did the children tell our army when my country hurt their
countries?
I would like to dream it, and I wish at least the chocolate was sweet.
for you and your loved ones.
CUDDLE CAFE
KEI TAIRA
CUDDLE CAFE
添い人 (soibito)
With the emergence of devil mouthed wives and herbivore men in Japan, services providing companionship such as communication lounges and cuddle cafes are booming. Soibito, a one-on-one participatory performance, plays on various companionate love services. The performance lets the performer and audience transact, receive, and release.
YENYEN DE SARAPEN
ADRIENNE VERGARA
YENYEN DE SARAPEN
"Yenyen de Sarapen
De Kuneho mga Ngipin
How how de Karnabal
De Kantuten"
--Yenyen De Sarapen Chant
Yenyen De Sarapen is an Independent Mascot who revolutionizes the identities and preconceived notions of what ar Costumed Characters. From questioning the identity of a Character Performer (better known as a "Mascoteer") as an enlarged version of the self, to the critical detachment of the mascot to its roots of conception, the characteristics of Yenyen de Sarapen are framed to offer discourses on hegemony, social responsibility, accountability, and a sense of pathos. Yenyen de Sarapen is an amplified voice to the misunderstood, to the marginalized due to a society's hailing of ideologies (Althusser), to the oppressed. Yenyen De Sarapen is a giant to extremely hold dear and safeguard the battlecry of many advocacies. And Lastly, this mascot is a statement.
Serbisyo Project
HIDDEN ECONOMIES
Serbisyo is a curated collection of devised performance vignettes on affective labor and the service industries. All featured works, created by different artists and weaved together by the Sipat Lawin Ensemble, reveal varying service identities that exist within the hidden fabric of societies. Looking at the artist as host, and art as performative labor, Serbisyo leads audiences from the public to the concealed, from the outside and peripheral, into the theater, its backstage, the chambers and hallways buried underneath, revealing unseen economies.
TOUCH OF ASIA
JK Anicoche
Touch of Asia is an 3-hour one-man show in which the artist performs a mass massage. The artist is put in the position of a masseur providing service. The audiences can choose to watch or participate.
Challenging the intricacies and intimacies of touch and being touched in private public space, the artist / masseur reads the narratives of the bodies and moves his body and the audience participant in shared movement/ choreography.
Experience the Touch of Asia! Watch and/or be seen. Listen and/or be listened to. Touch and be touched. Move and be moved. Heal and be healed.
---
Artist Profile: JK Anicoche
Artistic Director. Sipat Lawin Ensemble
W:AC WARNING: ADULT CONTENT
SARAH SALAZAR X DETSY UY
Warning: Adult Content reveals the world of digital laborers who specialize in serving online affection. An immersive work that exists in both the real and the cyber, artists invite audiences to penetrate a hidden but thriving industry. Lured by the promise of easy financial success, audience applicants are transported to a humble Manila office where they are briefed on how to survive as disguised “Lovers” in dating and hook-up sites.
Warning: Adult Content is an introduction to a private profession that persists through seduction and feeds on manufactured desires. It guarantees satisfaction.
GIVE ME CHOCOLATE
Natsuki Ishigami
When my country was occupied, children told the enemy “give me
chocolate!” in the enemy’s language. It’s a bitter and sweet memory.
But what did the children tell our army when my country hurt their
countries?
I would like to dream it, and I wish at least the chocolate was sweet.
for you and your loved ones.
CUDDLE CAFE
KEI TAIRA
CUDDLE CAFE
添い人 (soibito)
With the emergence of devil mouthed wives and herbivore men in Japan, services providing companionship such as communication lounges and cuddle cafes are booming. Soibito, a one-on-one participatory performance, plays on various companionate love services. The performance lets the performer and audience transact, receive, and release.
YENYEN DE SARAPEN
ADRIENNE VERGARA
YENYEN DE SARAPEN
"Yenyen de Sarapen
De Kuneho mga Ngipin
How how de Karnabal
De Kantuten"
--Yenyen De Sarapen Chant
Yenyen De Sarapen is an Independent Mascot who revolutionizes the identities and preconceived notions of what ar Costumed Characters. From questioning the identity of a Character Performer (better known as a "Mascoteer") as an enlarged version of the self, to the critical detachment of the mascot to its roots of conception, the characteristics of Yenyen de Sarapen are framed to offer discourses on hegemony, social responsibility, accountability, and a sense of pathos. Yenyen de Sarapen is an amplified voice to the misunderstood, to the marginalized due to a society's hailing of ideologies (Althusser), to the oppressed. Yenyen De Sarapen is a giant to extremely hold dear and safeguard the battlecry of many advocacies. And Lastly, this mascot is a statement.