Chia Amisola is an artist devoted to the internet’s loss, love, labor, and liberation from Las Piñas, Philippines. They make ambiences, performances, and tools on third world infrastructure, intimacies, & identities. They organize Developh & the Philippine Internet Archive towards more poetic & archipelagic internets, most recently curating KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN, an exhibition of Filipino internet art.
“All bodies are heavens, technology is devotion, and delusions are divine. Himala (miracle in Tagalog) examines the role Marian apparitions play in our Catholic and technological imaginaries. Taking the rosary as Catholic infrastructure and the computer as a feminine container, can we make new mythologies and rituals that center these obfuscated intercessory, maternal bodies?
Reinterpreting each mystery of the rosary into durational desktop performance pieces, I hope to invoke new forms of networked communion and develop a Marian analog to the Pabása ng Pasyón...to perhaps become an infrastructural apparition myself.”