2024 News & Events

SONG/ LAND/ SEA: WAI Water Warning
Water Clock + Binakol Blessing Light Blades & Flags

Opening & Performance: Saturday, July 25, 2024 at 6-8:30 pm

WAI Water Warning emerges as a public art installation and performance series serving as a warning of environmental change, echoing amidst the accelerating climate crisis. As our earth undergoes rapid transformation, this work stands as a stark reminder of the profound shifts reshaping the coastline of the City of Boston. Read more about the project here.

Read essay ‘Looking Through the Mirror of the Imperial Gaze on the Philipina Diaspora’
Part of online exhibition Balikbayan | Homecoming: Filipino Perspectives on Philippines Collections
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
May 2024

Closing Reception | Artist & Curator Talks
Saturday, April 13th from 3–6pm - RSVP Here

BCA Mills Gallery
551 Tremont St.
Boston, MA 02116

From 3-4 pm, curator J.R. Uretsky and artist Lani Asunción will have a conversation about their exhibition Duty-Free Paradise. From 5-5:30 pm, artists Robert Rovenolt and Nathan Heilman will discuss Rovenolt’s current Project Room Show, Robert Rovenolt: (no regrets).

PARADISE BETRAYED?: LANI ASUNCIÓN’S ACTIVIST LOOK AT HAWAI’I RARELY SEEN
Artscope 18th Anniversary Issue #109 March/April 2024
Review written by Suzanne Volmer

Opening Reception & Curatorial Walkthrough

Friday, January 26 | 6–9pm

BCA Mills Gallery, 551 Tremont St., 
Boston, MA 02116

RSVP here | Please have your ticket ready for check-in

Join us for the opening reception of two exhibitions from 6-9pm in the Mills Gallery: Lani Asunción: Duty-Free Paradise, curated by J.R. Uretsky.

Showing in the Project Room, Robert Rovenolt: (no regrets). Concurrently, next door from 5:30–8pm, there’s an open house in the Artist Studios Building holding the BCA Studio Residency.

This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

2023 News & Events

Decoding the Colonial | NAPJ

Saturday, September 9, 2023
5:00 - 7:00 PM

Now + There | Lot Lab
115 Constitution Road,
Charlestown, MA, 02129 (map)
N+T Event Page

Locally based interdisciplinary artists Lani Asunción and Joanna Tam will be presenting site-specific performances and creative interventions in partnership with Now + There. Responding to Lot Lab’s history and geography as a post-colonial military industrial shipyard that is adjacent to both the Boston Harbor waters and the Freedom Trail next to the USS Constitution Museum, Asunción and Tam’s projects are an extension of their ongoing explorations into the construction of national identity, safety, empowerment, and freedom in the wake of cultural and environmental oppression.

PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO THE MAUI STRONG FUND FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY THE FIRES IN LAHAINA, MAUI BY VISITING www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong.

2022-2023 Fellowship & Media Residency exhibition at Kala Art Institute

Exhibition Dates: July 20, 2023 - September 22, 2023

Dig and Rise celebrates diverse voices and research, with a focus on resilience and hope that each artist in the exhibition carries and amplifies through their projects.

Upcoming artists talks & performance dates:
9/ 9 @ 12-3 pm PST/ 3-4 pm EST - Virtual Artists Talk

9/21 @ 5:30-7:00 pm PST - Closing Artist Talk at Kala Art Gallery
Paola de la Calle
Trina Robinson
Meghana Bisineer
Lani Asuncion

9/21 @ 7-8 pm PST | Performance SONG/ LAND/ SEA: Binakol Blessing

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Dig and Rise exhibition features new works by 2022-2023 Kala Fellowship and Media Residency artists:

Lani Asunción
Meghana Bisineer
Paola de la Calle
Rayelle Janell Gardner
Sungjae Lee
Jessica Doe (née Mehta, Tyner)
Nasim Moghadam
Khadijah Morley
Rosa Park
Sass Popoli (2021-2022 Fellow)
Trina Michelle Robinson

Revolutionary AYAT (LOVE) project was awarded the 2022 Public Art for Spatial Justice grant from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA)
Revolutionary Healing in Public : Reimagining Colonial Wounds in Public Monuments | NEFA Blog - 6.13.23 [Read blog post here]

2022 News Archive

The Scope Boston | A work in progress: Developing equitable spaces for artistry to flourish in Boston by Reporter Taylor Blackley | May 9, 2022 [Read article here]

10b Project
APRIL 24 | MAY 01 | MAY 08, 2022
10b Brookley Road Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
More info on the new work and performances here.

Performances:
APRIL 24 @ 1-5 PM
MAY 08 @ 5-8 PM

Open Space Viewing:
MAY 01 @ 1-5 PM

MAY 30, 2022 | Revolutionary AYAT (LOVE) Performance with Survival Arts (Bacolod City, Philippines/ NYC) at Hiker Monument in Arsenal Square in Cambridge, MA

More coming soon, sign up to be notified here.

FEB. 2022 | Artist-in-Residence at Studios at Mass MoCA | Future Frequencies Fellowship - Barr Foundation/ Assets 4 Artists + The CreateWell Fund.

DFP | WAI: Red Hill Hex
Live-Performance at Aurora Picture Show, April 30, 2022 @ 8 PM, Huston, TX [Event info here]

DFP | WAI: Red Hill Hex is a multimedia performance addressing the ongoing water crisis in Hawai'i due to leakage from the U.S. Navy Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility in Kapūkaki.

PC: Sasha Pedro.

Duty-Free Paradise solo exhibition at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
July 21-Aug. 27, 200
Performance & Panel Discussion | Aug. 06,22 at 7-9 PM
Performance @ 7-8 PM / Discussion with Billie Lee & Joe Bun Keo @ 8-9 PM

JULY-AUG, 2022 | Performance: History/ Ritual/ Identity, Summer Arts Community Project - Artist-in-Residence, Urbano Project, Boston, MA

SEPT. 2022 | Sanctuary City/ Duty-Free Paradise Performance - Closing event Oct. 08, 2022 @ 7-9 pm/ collabroating with Filipinx mezzo-soprano artist Pauline Tan | Community Curated Exhibition by Julia Csekö | Somerville Museum