ARTIST STATEMENT

I combine movement, text, video and percussion in performances that create possibilities for transformation in understanding the fluid, ethereal and sex-positive manifestations of subversive hybridity. My concept of (a)eromestizaje challenges stereotypical representations of identity, community and sexuality that I explore through the aerodynamic filter of a new "mestizaje" (the term that describes the Spanish/indigenous race mixture of Latin America and the Philippines) in which there is a constant, yet shifting interplay between racial and sexual identities.