[POSTPONED] Meantime | KKSILOG: Lumayo Ka Sa Araw (Stay Away from the Sun)

THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Join us in person for ICA San Francisco's Meantime program KKSILOG: Lumayo Ka Sa Araw (Stay Away from the Sun).

Artists Kim Requesto and Kim Acebo Arteche collaborate on a multidisciplinary work about healing intergenerational trauma within their matriarchal lineages. Drawing from their training in Black vernacular dance (street dance) and Philippine folkloric dance, the work combines installation, photography, and video projections with movement.

This is a joint program with We Live This.

Program Description (By the Artists)

“Lumayo Ka Sa Araw” (Stay Away from the Sun) is a multi-disciplinary work by KKSILOG, interdisciplinary artist collaborative Kim Requesto and Kim Acebo Arteche, that explores themes of healing generational trauma from within their matriarchal lineages through (temporary) installation, photography, video projection, and dance. Informed by dance ritual movement in their respective trainings in Black vernacular dance (street dance), and Philippine folkloric dance, KKSILOG weaves together reflective dialogue between the experiences of their mothers and grandmothers with their present-day experiences of colonial beauty standards, colorism, self-worth, productivity, and internalized capitalism.

As individuals and artists, KKSILOG knows deeply the relationship between intergenerational trauma and ancestral healing. Shame around beauty standards, skin color, self-worth, productivity, and internalized capitalism are parcels of colonial baggage that the artists (and many of their community peers) have inherited from their mothers and grandmothers. This project also recognizes that these issues ultimately intersect with anti-blackness within Filipinx communities, and shares personal experiences of the artists addressing their mothers/grandmothers on these topics. “Lumayo Ka Sa Araw” offers loving reflections on the healing process of witnessing their mother’s & grandmother’s trauma, and encouraging acceptance and self-love in their matriarchal lineages. KKSILOG hopes to plant seeds of transformation by normalizing upward generational healing—tending to and healing the soil that they grew from.

About the Artists (By the Artists)

KKSILOG is a collaborative silog, pairing meats on a breakfast plate, accompanied by suka (vinegar)—much like the experience of the Philippine diaspora: sweet, savory, and a little bit sour.

Kim Requesto (she/her) is a Philippine born, Mission District raised cultural practitioner and multi-disciplinary artist based in Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory also recognized as San Francisco, California. She specializes in 35mm photography, filmmaking, and dance. At the heart of Kim Requesto’s diasporic work is the mantra, “Advocacy through art.” With an artistic foundation in Philippine folk dance, Requesto has dedicated herself to cultural expression and advocacy through movement, photography, and community outreach.

Kim Acebo Arteche (she/they) is an educator, cultural worker, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores the hybrid cultures formed by technology, movements of immigrants in America, and the way movements through space and spaces has been affected by these two. She has been awarded the Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Award by the San Francisco Foundation, was Kearny Street Workshop’s Featured Visual Artist in the 2015 APAture Festival, and residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Growlery, and Caldera Arts Center. Arteche presented her first solo show, “the curved body of a pixel”, curated by Lian Ladia in 2019 at Incline Gallery (San Francisco). She is the co-founder of Balay Kreative, a future Filipinx American Cultural Center in the South of Market, and is currently the Co-Director of the Berkeley Art Center.

“Lumayo Ka Sa Araw” is KKSILOG’s first official collaboration. Process driven through lenses of transformational generational healing, Requesto & Arteche work with both historic and family archives, including photographs, text messages, voicemails, and recorded dialogues with their mothers/grandmothers to understand and create reflections of these experiences of beauty standards, skin color, self-worth, productivity, and internalized capitalism. This process allows them to not only identify these issues within their families and culture, but to move towards healing wounds in themselves and their mothers/grandmothers.

About the Program

The ICA San Francisco presents Meantime, a series of takeovers and pop-ups occurring during renovations at 901 Minnesota Street, between January and April, in advance of our fall 2022 opening.

In a spirit of collaboration and reciprocity, we invited creative people and organizations from across the Bay Area to propose events in our space from any artistic discipline. Our Meantime program—which drew over 90 wonderful proposals—speaks to the core values of the museum that we are building, one that centers the voices of artists and welcomes our community. All events are free.

The content of Meantime programs represents the views and opinions of the authors/creators/participants and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the ICA SF or its staff.

About the ICA SF

Located in the Dogpatch District of San Francisco, ICA San Francisco prioritizes voices and viewpoints that have been ignored or underrepresented in the art world. ICA SF enables artists to push boundaries and to experiment and expand their practices by providing them with the time, funds, support and space to actualize their work.

Covid-19 Policy

• N95 or surgical masks are required and must be worn at all times. (Surgical masks are available onsite)
• All visitors are required to show proof of vaccination to enter or a negative test within 24hrs.
• Please note refreshments will not be served.
• Monitoring capacity in the gallery space (50 people max at a time)

We are continuing to monitor and adhere to the evolving Covid-19 guidelines in the city of San Francisco. We are committed to keeping our staff, exhibitors, and visitors safe, and ultimately preserving our ability to come together for ICA SF in future years.