I finally had the opportunity to go see Stephanie Comilang @ilocos.bitch and Simon Speiser’s @ciriguaya installation. So proud to have contributed to the soundtrack for this beautiful video and VR piece. The exhibition is on till Dec 4th - go check it out if you’re in Berlin @juliastoschekcollection — Piña, Why is the Sky Blue? features footage shot in the Philippines and Ecuador, where Comilang and Speiser, respectively, have family histories. Its video component includes interviews with activists and healers from local organizations such as the Indigenous feminist collective Cyber Amazonas in Puyo, and Las Martinas de Piedras Negras in Quito, both in Ecuador; as well as with a shaman or Babaylan, in Palawan, Philippines. These are interspersed with footage of agricultural landscapes, abandoned buildings amid lush forests, and documentation of ritual activities carried out by the interviewees. Through an emphasis on matriarchal lineages and their modes of knowledge transmission, the artists consider how precolonial ways of being have survived into the present in spite of their ongoing violent oppression.