Creation Paradigm

The three-channel video installation Creation Paradigm is “Cosmological Gangbang’s” second iteration. The film follows three divinities from different worlds who represent different facets of being: Uling, light and dark; Talu, the reflection of oneself; and Waling-Waling, the euphoria of love (played by the artist’s collaborators Bunny Cadag; Lukresia Quismundo, aka thirdworld bb; and John Chesleigh Nofiel, aka Alaga) across a series of dreamlike vignettes. Encounters with long-lost ancestral environments build, at the film’s climax, to a communion mediated by a black liquid that suggests both primordial ooze and a balm for healing the collective trauma of colonization. With its dislocated sense of time and place, Creation Paradigm proposes that the liberation of all bodies does not only exist in a hypothetical future; instead, it is deeply rooted in pre-colonial modes of thought and categories of identification. Creating a loop between past and future, the film viscerally argues for in-betweenness and decolonization as mutual and complimentary necessities.