Elegy is a collaborative performance that invokes the pagtatawas – a diagnostic and divination ritual in the Philippines for interpreting what may be causing illness or distress.
Inhabiting a shared space for feeling and not-knowing, the performance threads fragmented memories and predictive data with inarticulable emotions between living and dying, both human and beyond.
Together, the performance plays with elements of the ritual, using candle wax, water and heat, and reimagines the practice of bulong – whispered verses animated in the ritual – bridging individual meaning-making with a collective worlding.
Dennis Dizon
Dennis Dizon (b. Manila, Philippines) is a research-based artist and writer.
Their practice is grounded in critical feeling, playing with dissonance as methodology. Through intertextual, transmedia and discursive work, Dennis deconstructs the paradoxes of existence — from death and isolation, to freedom and meaninglessness — inhabiting tensions between knowledge and affect. They piece meaning together and constellate evolving techno-ecologies with psychosocial conditions, embracing slippage, the awkward, and comedies of error.
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