Alagaan ang Salaysáy (Take Care of the Story) at Flux IV Gallery

Flux Factory presented my solo exhibition Alagaan ang Salaysáy, which ran from October 4 - November 2, 2025. It was curated by Meghana Karnik and included performances from Cordillera Cultural Ensemble (CCE) and Kinding Sindaw.

Alagaan ang Salaysáy honors Filipino nurses in Queens, Brooklyn, and New York City. Drawing on the migration story sparked by the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the 1970s nurse recruitment drives, Catbagan gathers oral histories from a community whose work has sustained the city’s healthcare system for decades. The words tita (aunt), ate (sister), and kuya (brother) recur—titles of care and respect that transcend bloodlines.

Visitors are invited to listen and read these stories vocally, transforming each into what Catbagan calls “a living monument of care.” In doing so, the exhibition turns listening into an act of devotion, infusing nurses’ labor into cultural memory.

Special thanks to New York Council on the Arts - 2025 NYSCA Fellowship and to the Filipino nurses who were generous with their stories.

Grounding and Automatic Drawing at Governors Island

Halloween Sunday was a magical day to connect and draw with the earth.

Thank you to everyone who was part of Sympoietica, specially @sholehasgary for linking us with sonic atmosphere and @e.connolly123 for the videos and pics, @governorsisland, @flux_factory, #CityArtistCorps, @nyfacurrent, @NYCulture, @madein_ny, and @queenstheatre.

Sympoietica Performance

Join me for a grounding meditation and automatic drawing event on Saturday, October 31, from 2-3pm @governorsisland with soundscape by the amazing @sholehasgary.

Sympoietica is a participatory performance that creates a space of solace, recuperation, and creative expression through our relationship to the earth and its multi-species inhabitants. The audience is invited to participate in a guided soundscape, movement, and reflection exercise that connects them to Governors Island’s biodiversity and history while expressing their associations through automatic drawing. The performance combines the connective practice of earthing, the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing, and feminist theorist Donna Haraway’s concept of sympoiesis or "making-with.” Through sound, movement, and reflection, the performance generates a collaboration between bodies, place, and other living things that center systems of care, embodied knowledge, and collective well-being. Sympoietica is made possible by the New York Foundation for the Arts’ #CityArtistCorps Grants. Special thanks to @flux_factory, @nyfacurrent, @NYCulture, @madein_ny, and @queenstheatre.

Abang-guard Museum of Secret Talent - A Participatory Performance

As part of Flux Factory’s Remote Edition series, Abangguard duo Maureen Catbagan and Jevijoe Vitug will guide a participatory performance via Zoom on Thursday, August 6, from 7-9:30pm. During these intense and difficult times we find some solace and release through intangible personal knowledge, story telling, guilty pleasures, and modes of non-productivity. Abang-guard will host a digital museum space as a repository of hidden talent and secret expertise from artists including Sarah Dahlinger, Carlos  David TC, Shannon Stovall, Anthony Janas, Eleni Theodora Zaharopoulos, Jess Rolls, Hui-Ying Tsai, Sholeh Asgary, Julio Jose Austria + Patricia Lim and more..Followed by “open secret mic” participation

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