YSA Ancheta

Our movements entail the history and power relations we hold to land, community and our own bodies. By entangling found and created media, YSA Ancheta contends with how colonial violence is swept up in the invention of a national identity. Taking a closer look at gestures reveals how embodied movement is an epistemology concerned with the Filipino body that resists; that migrates; that labors; that performs. Through projected video collage, Dust we can’t quite catch complicates the nationalized dance Tinikling, and relates it to how colonization and imperial war machines contaminate the gestures and movements of Filipinos.

YSA Ancheta (b. 2002 Metro Manila) is an artist based in Lenape land / New York City. Often dealing with forms of illegibility, multiplicity, and fragmentation Ancheta utilizes video to suture curiosities in poetry, archives, and performance.