UPCOMING & RECENT PROJECTS

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Founded FringeMNL or the Fringe Manila International Arts Festival in the Philippines, which debuted in February 2015. Designed the festival as a platform for emerging local and international artists to be able present their works to the public. Cultivated partnerships with public and private organisations as well as individuals for sponsorships and donations. The festival spawned Fringe Creatives in 2018. 

Festival Director | 2015 to 2020.

Conceptualised and produced events through exhibitions, performances, festivals, and immersive experiences both digitally and in-person. Managed Pineapple Lab’s performance space, gallery, and retail concept store called Glorious Dias. Worked closely with local communities to implement creative interventions that provide inclusive and accessible arts programmes in the Philippines. 

Creative Director | 2015 to 2022.

Conceptualised and implemented  Anakbanwa, which  invited artists across all disciplines to conduct research and immerse themselves in the local creative communities, cultural heritage, traditional artistic practices, and experience the ecological landscape of the fourth district of Pangasinan.  Artists-in-residence were asked to create work that responded to current social justice and climate change issues relevant today.

Program Director | Sept. to Nov. 2021.

Karakoa is a collective from Southeast Asia and Japan that facilitates transnational cultural exchanges; creating a space for sharing contemporary artistic practices and its processes with the society. 

By bridging independent creatives with art spaces, networks, festivals, and cultural organizations – Karakoa is a vehicle for meaningful collaborations and exchange to provide a safe space for artistic ideas and expressions. Karakoa produced the Creators' Cradle Circuit in 2018-19 and 2019-2020.

Researcher; Producer | 2018 to 2020. 

‘Linya’ by Ugnayan was a multidisciplinary project staged in Manila on 7th March 2020. It was a performative exhibition imagined by renowned New-York-based Filipina dancer and choreographer Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish, French artist Henri Lamy and French-Filipina art director Maïa d’Aboville.

It was an immersive forty-five minute show that featured local FIlipino dancers Ea Torrado, Maisie Marie Briones, Ghian Renzen Arboleda, and Paulina Reyes.

Producer | March 2020. 

In partnership with The Japan Foundation, Manila,  1SA – Solo Arts Platform, celebrated solo artists who were commissioned to create new works and premiere existing material for  Philippine audiences for the first time. 1SA served as an avenue for solo performers and artists straddling hyphenate identities and cultures to engage with local communities while exploring various mediums of artistic expression. 

1SA was the first ever solo arts festival produced in the Philippines. 

Curator; Producer | October 2018. 

Monocle Radio’s Andrei Nikolai Pamintuan takes us to Makati City in the Philippines on a food crawl around the historic district of Barangay Poblacion.

11 April 2023.

A new exhibition celebrates modern artists as they create work that responds to the architecture and landscape of the historic centre of creativity.

11 April 2023.

London LGBTQ+ centre's architect Martha Summers discusses how material choices are key when it comes to making a venue feel welcoming.

28 March 2023.

As "Here Lies Love" gears up for its Broadway debut in New York City, some critics and artists question the timing of a show that centres around the former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos. 

Will there ever be a perfect time for a production about the wife of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos? 

24 March 2023. 

The latest exhibition at SoShiro Gallery in Marylebone, London, features more than 60 works from across the UK and Africa. 

We meet curator Shiro Muchiri who talks about the science of putting an exhibition together and glass artists, Chris Day and Cathryn Shilling, featured in this exhibition.  

07 March 2023. 

Interview with Spanish-Welsh artist Rafael Pérez Evans about “Dust Bathers,” his immersive new work at QUEERCIRCLE. 

The interview originally aired on Monocle Radio's The Globalist for Monocle on Culture.  Dust Bathers will be on display at QUEERCIRCLE till May 14 in London's Design District.  

03 March 2023. 

India’s first major new museum in 10 years opens its doors in February 2023. The Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) occupies a vast, purpose-built structure in Bengaluru and hopes to become a world-class beacon of South Asian arts.

Institutions seeking a broader, more democratic approach to culture and curation should take note.

17 February 2023. 

Leave Your Shoes Outside (LYSo) is a podcast about contemporary art practices from around the world. This series invites audiences to tune in to candid conversations and gain insights into the complexities of being an artist today. LYSO is presented in partnership with Pineapple Lab and Fringe Creatives and supported by The Japan Foundation and the British Council.

17 February 2023.