OPTION 2025: PAGASA

Recorded in the ESS studio on June 29, 2025

Chia Amisola performs an experimental ambient atmosphere using climate data to provide the basis of sound, image, and samples. In the archipelago, technology swells at every extreme. All matters are now in service of machines: land, sea, body, mind. The Filipino is a weather(ed) machine.

PAGASA is Tagalog for hope, after the Philippines' national weather bureau. Historical & real-time climate data provide the basis of sound, image, & samples in a simulation of the tropics, going from its mythological formations to future geographies.

Anthropomorphized storms narrativize a history of migrant movement across waters, sonic weaponry breaking waters, and a reliance on colonial imaging technologies. What happens when islands become both the subject and object of computational prophecy?

Chia Amisola is an artist from Las Piñas, Philippines devoted to the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation. They create ambiences, performances, and tools that explore third world infrastructure, intimacies, and identities through spaces domestic to divine.

The OPTION series is curated by Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos.