an_outskirt
About
an_outskirt is a story-telling project by Joy Tamayo (Bacacay, Albay) and Chaitanya Tamayo (Baguio, Benguet). Ritual, Colonialism/Decolonialism, Language, and Immigration are items that their migration across the Pacific preserved. Their transplantation into this new habitat and the process of making sense of incongruities are central to an_outskirt’s practice.
an_outskirt is an impulse to understand a path. It is an archival project—one that cultivates momentum from lists, words seldom spoken, and music no longer heard. Through these valences, we navigate 500 years of colonial erasing and locate ourselves in it.
Photo by Nadia Tamayo.
Joy Tamayo, a Southeast Asian woman, sings to a microphone on the foreground's left side. Chaitanya Tamayo, a Southeast Asian man looking at the camera, is also on the right in the background. They’re standing with stripe graphic projection lights on their faces and backgrounds.