OPTION: PAGASA (Chia Amisola)

Description

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.

Chia Amisola performs an experimental ambient atmosphere in PAGASA (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?

This performance and interview are presented in the ESS garden, and will premiere online on ESS’s YouTube. This event is free and open to the public. Walk-ins welcome; reservations recommended.

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

About Chia Amisola

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.  

https://everythingi.love/

About OPTION

OPTION is an ongoing music salon curated by Chicago musicians Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos and presented by Experimental Sound Studio. Its programming explores contemporary perspectives on improvisation and composition in a ‘salon’ format, enabling local, national, and international artists to publicly discuss their practice and ideas as well as perform.