Performance: 'Elegy' by Dennis Dizon

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 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.

www.dennis-dizon.com

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