2nd Saturday February 2025

beyond self’s edge
Curated by Vanessa Perez-Winder

Exhibition Dates: February 8 – March 1, 2025
2nd Saturday Opening Reception: February 8, 2025

The Frank-Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present beyond self’s edge, a group exhibition featuring the distinct approaches of five current Root Division Studio Artists: Dominique Birdsong, Chanel Kim, Elaine Nguyen, Itzél Rios-Ellis, and Sammy Gripe. 

beyond self’s edge explores how the slippages of binaries—whether temporal, physical, or cultural—create spiraling, shifting territories. Drawing on hybrid and opaque forms, each artist probes the visceral intersections of fragility and resistance, embodying a tension between the alien and the familiar.

Moving beyond nostalgia, the selected artists imagine past-present-future possibilities as a terrain in perpetual recalibration, shaped by both personal and collective experiences, and the materialities that bind them. As boundaries blur, time stretches, and forms shift, the works on view resist easily digestible resolutions, and instead, tend to the fertile grounds of lingering possibilities.

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PAGASA Weather Report
Performance by Chia Amisola

PAGASA or hope is a simulated atmosphere of a country's climate in collapse. A prototype of  a new generative desktop performance by Chia Amisola—the work is part broadcast and part entering an ever-generative, speculative storm that bleeds data and disaster. Titled after the Philippines' national weather bureau in charge of climate response, the work examines institutional forecasting and failed systems of prediction, the national cultures of 'resilience' and the consequences of constant collapse and re-cobbling of our bodies.

Scraping together climate imagery, satellite views, news clippings, radio reports, and field recordings—you are brought to a moment in time where disaster unfolds yet remains undecipherable, almost routine in its unfolding. The visitor's phones and flashlights are invited into the performance, piercing through projections and attempts to map the unpredictable. Weather mutates beyond algorithmic prediction. Climate itself is a competing 'technology'—one that renders our systems of understanding increasingly obsolete.

Chia Amisola (b. 2000) is an artist and technologist devoted to the internet’s ambiences and its loss, love, labor, and liberation. Their games, performances, and websites take interest in the intimacies of infrastructures, the labor of tools, and the poetics of machines from the domestic to the divine. They’ve organized Developh towards poetic technologies in the Philippines since 2016.

They graduated from Yale University with a BA in Computing & the Arts in 2022. They’ve exhibited internationally at the V&A and Somerset House, London; Tai Kwun, Hong Kong; WSA & TRANSFER, New York; MÉDIALAB, France; Künstlerhaus Bethanien and panke.gallery, Germany; and Gray Area & Game Developer Conference, San Francisco.  They've been featured in The New Yorker, Forbes, Frieze, BOMB Magazine, et. al, and are a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia recipient & Lumen Prize winner. They were born in Tondo and raised in Las Piñas.

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