Caroline is a culturally promiscuous, interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, and installation through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural movement, embodied research, and new media. Her practice traverses a highly personalized aggregation of distinct systems that encompass green screening (live and in post production), botany, robotics, poetry, ceramics, and mixed realities (AR/VR) through a humorous and playful aesthetic. Her most recent body of work draws from Indigenous Filipino practices of headhunting and martial arts, all as a way of processing grief, specifically that of matriarchal loss, as an individual and in the postcolonial Filipinx diaspora.
“In the re-rendering of gesture from analogue (body) to digital (robot), my pursuit is to explore the notion of translation and untranslatability that occurs in the act of migration. Drawing from diasporic ontologies, I intend to address the inherent loss that occurs in the migratory process; I consider losses as ruptures that need to be filled or as glitches in the paradigm. By simply insisting and embracing these losses, refusal is taking place; ruptures and glitches become modes of grief. My inquiry frames these technological spaces as ethnographic refusal, rejecting colonial legacies of cultural competency that relentlessly confront bodies of the diaspora.”