WALANG HIYA 2019This project was developed and supported by Walang Hiya NYC in 2019. It was shown in Queens, NY.
“Walang Hiya” -- From wala (without), -ng (adjectival suffix), and hiya (shame). Conjuring joy in ritual for a free AF future. We are Pilipinx shapeshifters of the diaspora who will cut and love you shamelessly. This Pageant/Procession/Ritual was the culminating event to an 8 month long arts fellowship which transmuted intergenerational trauma into collective wellness. It featured work and public workshops featuring internationaL Pilipinx artists, musicians, writers, embodied practitioners, researchers, herbalists, psychologists, educators, etc. The procession/rituals took place at several locations within Jackson Heights, Queens and ended at the Unisphere which was the site of the World's Fair. Excerpts of this work also featured and performed at the Little Manila Walking Tour, Brooklyn, Museum, Columbia University, The New School, and the Babaylan Conference in Ontario, Canada Ritual Performances, Art, and Sound by: Walang Hiya NYC, Rhea Endoso, Fran Delfin, Rose Piana, Rose Generoso, Bomba Brown (aka Babay L. Angles), Khokhoi, Sad Clowns, Gigi Bio, Trishia Frulla, Sining Kapuluan Mga Walang Hiya NYC IG: @walanghiyanyc About Walang Hiya NYC Walang Hiya NYC was a group of 13 shapeshifters of the Pilipinx diaspora who created ritual and artistic practices to transmute systemically inserted colonial shame into ancestral, communal and individual spiritual, mental, emotional, physical wellness and joy. We were inspired by the ways in which colonized resilient peoples of the diaspora have utilized song, dance, ritual, and procession to keep our spirits alive throughout history. We asked: How can both festival and funeral procession be utilized as a vehicle for collective mourning and rebirth? How can we Pilipinx of the diaspora, dig through the contradictions of our deeply embedded histories of pain and resilience to imagine futures and myths of haunting, scandalous, and erotic joy? We imagine a future of magic cross-cultural spiritual connections, searching for the bridges between Voudoun, Ifa, Santeria, precolonial Pilipinx practices, Catholicism, Hinduism and our intuitive diasporic Pilipinx practices in the kitchen, in the water, in the earth, at the karaoke machine, in the strip club, and at the Palenke. We dig. We conjure. We process. We are future. We are here. We share our rituals in community to continue to grow our practices, selves, and each other. |