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Makibaka , 2025. Mixed-media installation at Queens Museum, Queens, NY. Installation Photos: Hai Zang Makibaka contends with Filipino visibility through the lens of immigration and labor. Through performance, painting, and sculpture, Abang-gua
Museum of Little Manilas , 2024. Stills from Performative lecture and workshop at UP Vargas Museum, Philippines. Duration 2 hours Museum of Little Manilas , a series of projects that combines multi-media installations, performance, and social pra
The Filipino Dream, 2024. Digital Stills from performance at Eskinita Art Farm, Batangas, Philippines. Duration 2 hours The Filipino Dream is a participatory performance and social gathering staged during the Buklod forum at Eskinita Art Farm,
Museo Pintados , 2024. Digital Stills from Performance at Topaz Arts, Queens, NY. Duration 2 hours Museo Pintados highlights the repetitive aesthetics of Pintados (indigenous Filipinos with tattooed bodies) while interpreting its mark-making to
No More 24! May Day Tapestry, 2023. Jacquard woven textile, 60 x 80 inches Care Guardian Sculpture, 2023. 3D-printed resin, coins, porcelain, 16.5 x 11.5 x 10 inches Incorporating museum objects and language, No More 24! May Day Tapestry a
Handle with Care, 2023. Digital Stills from performance at 601 Artspace, NYC. Duration 1 hour Handle of Care addresses the multi-layered meaning of the phrase in terms of the value imbued to narratives of museum objects as opposed to the stori
Abang-guard Street Museum, 2023. Digital Stills from performance at The Six Foot Platform, DUMBO, NYC. Duration: 6 hours Abang-guard Street Museum is a participatory platform that enables the public to share their inner voice and creative expres
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Little Manila Monuments, 2023 . Multi-media installation at PS122 Gallery, NYC. Dimensions variable. Installation Photos: Etienne Frossard Little Manila Monuments commemorate both the history and vital presence of the Filipino community in W
Life Drawing Working Class , 2022. Performance Stills from Flux Factory at Governors Island, NYC. Duration 1 hour Abang-guard invited Governors Island visitors to participate in a life drawing class with museum guards as models. The audience had a
Artists on Artworks: Abang-guard, 2022. Digital Stills from Performance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Duration 1 hour Abang-guard’s performative lecture on the works of Asian American artists in The Metropolitan Museum’s collection in
America is in the Heart, 2021. Digital Still from Performance at Abrons Art Amphitheater, NYC. Duration 10 minutes America is in the Heart explored the intersections between Filipinx American identity, history, and labor by combining a readin
Bahay Kubo on the Water, 2021. Digital Stills from Performance at Governors Island, NYC. Duration 2 hours Part performance, part landscape painting, Abang-guard framed Bahay Kubo on the Water between the Manhattan and Governors Island waterfr
Museum Workers Manifesto Session 3: Potential of Work, 2020. Digital Stills from Performance at PS 122 Gallery, NYC. Duration 40 min. In collaboration with Museum Workers Manifesto (2020) at PS122 Gallery, Abang-guard lead a performative lec
Abang-guard Stills @ Art Workers Lab, 2020. Digital Prints, 3 x 4 ft. each Abang-guard Stills is a digital photography series that centers the movements of a museum guard amidst the cropped galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The ima
Daydreamer’s Manifestation Meditation, 2019. Digital Stills from Performance, 3 sessions 15 min. each As part of the Flux Takeover! (2019) in Socrates Park, Abang-guard performed a guided meditation that referenced the precarious situation of
Abang-guard x ARoS Tactical Museum, 2019. Digital Stills from Performance, 1 hour The project is a collaboration between Abang-guard and ARoS museum guards as a way to highlight the labor body within art institutions while subverting the curr
A bang-guard x ARoS Tactical Museum Zine, 2019. Publication, 2.75 x 4 in. (with 8 x 11 in. fold out) The zine documented Abang-guard’s performance and art collaboration with ARoS Museum guards. It is displayed as part of a wall installation for
La Guardia, 2017. Mixed-media Installation, 2 wooden crate panels 10x12x2ft. each For the Self-Storage exhibition at Flux Factory, Abang-guard propped two wooden crate cover panels against a wall that acted as a secret storage niche. The ins
POC-POC POP-UP!, 2017. Mixed-media Installation, 10 x 12 x 12 ft. Made for the Self-Storage (2017) exhibit at Flux Factory, the installation was a collaboration with Bliss-on-Bliss that addressed themes of displacement and designations of va
ZAPT (Zones of Art Practice Theory) Zine, 2017. Publication, 8.5 x 5.5 in. The zine is the accompanying catalog for the POC-POC POP UP! and La Guardia installations for the Self-Storage Show (2017) at Flux Factory. The publication contex
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