Pagkalinga is a Tagalog word for caring or to care. This performance work explores various rituals of caring or pagkalinga based on the Filipino culture of the artist James Harvey Estrada. Since 2018, James has been exploring performance rituals based on his experiences and explorations of spirituality. He developed his prayer rituals at a very young age and has explored this style through healing and meditative performance. In his recent research on performing presence, he tried to read and explore the site’s energy and history toward a ceremony of communal care with the audience.

James collaborates with Masashi Nukata to give sound and music in this piece. James and Masashi worked together in Fure Fure Ostrich!! Hayupang Die-Bow-Ken! in 2020 and 20221 for the Tokyo Festival. Working together for two years in a project they created a bond of care in their works. The two then explore this bond of care through the body and musicality.

Intertwining the Filipino culture of care with James Harvey Estrada and the Japanese musical sensibilities of Masashi Nukata we will witness a caring performance work crafted in friendship and togetherness.