1F Projects

Scenes from Braindance last Saturday, feat. Huang @mister_huang , @derektumala and Mario Consunji @biggesthat . We will be open tomorrow, April 18 at 9pm for a last chance to experience the video installation by @typedistortdecay . Free admission; DJ sets by Derek and Jem Davis. There’s a show opening at @modeka.art nearby so lots to see at the compound. Come say hi!

1F Projects presents BRAINDANCE, a third-space event that promotes listening as a way of expanding local sound & music culture in a relaxed environment, featuring Dekdestroy, Mario Consunji, and Huang. Multi-speaker setup from the defunct XX XX’s club system and 1F Projects; art installation loop by TypeDistortDecay. ________________ Derek is a visual artist whose practice explores the techno-ecological. His eclectic soundscape runs the scale from ambient to techno. A veteran DJ in the electronic dance scene, Huang is a character who follows unique narratives and confounds limits, taking on different aliases and approaches. Mario Consunji is an artist and producer known for his atmospheric compositions that blur the lines between music and sound. TypeDistortDecay creates hallucinatory images from layers of 2D geometry, an act she describes as “an exploratory typeface workout”. @derektumala @mister_huang @biggesthat @typedistortdecay Poster by @cloathes_studio

A preview of TypeDistortDecay’s installation. Join us at Braindance on Saturday, April 11, 9pm. Sound by Derek Tumala, Huang, and Mario Consunji. ——— Derek is a visual artist whose practice explores the techno-ecological. His eclectic soundscape runs the scale from ambient to techno. A veteran DJ in the electronic dance scene, Huang is a character who follows unique narratives and confounds limits, taking on different aliases and approaches. Mario Consunji is an artist and producer known for his atmospheric compositions that blur the lines between music and sound. TypeDistortDecay creates hallucinatory images from layers of 2D geometry, an act she describes as “an exploratory typeface workout”. @derektumala @mister_huang @biggesthat @typedistortdecay

Join us on Saturday, April 11 9pm: 1F Projects presents BRAINDANCE. Multi-speaker setup from the defunct XX XX’s club system and 1F Projects; art installation by TypeDistortDecay. ________________ Mario Consunji is an artist and producer known for his atmospheric compositions that blur the lines between music and sound. Derek Tumala is a visual artist whose practice explores the techno-ecological. His eclectic soundscape runs the scale from ambient to techno. A veteran DJ in the electronic dance scene, Huang is a character who follows unique narratives and confounds limits, taking on different aliases and approaches. TypeDistortDecay creates hallucinatory images from layers of 2D geometry, an act she describes as “an exploratory typeface workout”. @derektumala @mister_huang @biggesthat @typedistortdecay

1F Projects presents: Rick Countryman, Sasa Cabalquinto and Giro Alva. In this collaboration, the three artists create an environment that people can enter and experience together, where vibration, presence, and bodies and sound affect each other in space. The body acts as the receiver and transmitter of vibration. March 21, Saturday 9pm Door: P500 — Sasa Cabalquinto is a pioneering butoh artist based in Manila, Philippines. She is a Filipina independent movement artist, actor, dancer, performance maker, and cultural worker whose work explores movement through collaborative and interdisciplinary performance with themes revolving around memory, time, women, and socio-political spaces. Rick Countryman, sax and flute artist, appears on over 30 CDs on labels in France, UK, US, and Japan. In his early 20s, Rick studied traditional jazz improvisation, intervallic cycles and concepts, and extended techniques for sax with Bert Wilson; and recently studied extended techniques for flute with Robert Dick. He began his musical pursuits and “live” education in the 70s in the Seattle area, and since 2011, continues his pursuit within the Manila and Asian scene, appearing regularly in local jazz festivals and jazz/improvisational venues. In his solo work, Pinkmen co-frontman and songwriter Giro Alva dives into classical territory and displays his virtuosity with the guitar in his all-instrumental album which ranges from beautiful Kundiman to six-string experiments. He is also a film score composer. — Poster by @cloathes_studio

It was a pleasure to have Bobby Benedicto @acephale (McGill University, Montréal) do the first of our Art Talks last Saturday, sharing his paper on the late artist-photographer Ren Hang, form and formlessness, meaning and non-meaning. A big thanks to Bobby, Maita Sayo @maitasayo for moderating, and everyone who came to experience this extraordinary lecture with us.

1F Projects Presents: Gil Kuno, Mario Consunji and Children of Cathode Ray. Join us on Saturday, February 28, 9pm for a night of kinetic art and sound. — Gil Kuno @gilkuno is an artist based in Tokyo and New York. Through experiments in the audio-visual and re-envisioning experiences common within everyday life, Gil aims to push people away from paradigmatic thinking. He takes a whimsical approach in subverting common perceptions of reality. Mario Consunji @biggesthat is an artist and producer in Manila who works across electronic music and sound design. Known for his minimal synth project Big Hat Gang, Consunji is currently exploring sounds and compositions away from music. Children of Cathode Ray (est. 1989) is a pioneering Filipino experimental sound art and media collective known for blending improvised electronic music, found sounds, and lo-fi video feedback. Based in Manila, the group, including Tad Ermitano @hermitscave and Jing Garcia @autoceremony , creates unstructured, high-energy performances utilizing synthesizers, tape loops, and manipulated analog video. 9PM | Door P500 — Poster by @cloathes_studio

We are pleased to present a lecture by Bobby Benedicto (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University) on the work of the late photographer, Ren Hang. The talk will be moderated by Maita Sayo. Admission is free. — No Need for Statements: Ren Hang and the Form of Non-Meaning This lecture examines the burden of meaning imposed on the racialized body through a reading of the work of Chinese queer photographer Ren Hang. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and close attention to photographic form, the analysis follows how Ren’s compositions — marked by fragmentation, geometric arrangement, and affective flatness — displace interpretation from questions of identity or expression toward the operations through which meaning attaches to the body in the first place. Sexuality emerges here less as identity or expression than as a structural cut, exposing the racialized body as the site where meaning fails to disappear, and where form remains bound to loss, negativity, and death. Read more at the link in bio. — Bobby Benedicto is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies and recipient of an honorable mention for the Ruth Benedict Prize for Queer Anthropology. His forthcoming book, Fatal Sex: Queer of Color Negativity and the Erotics of Death (Duke University Press), examines the relation between sex, law, perversion, and mortality through analyses of film, photography, true crime, and the subculture of chemsex. His recent work has appeared in Postmodern Culture, differences, and GLQ.

JAN 23 Friday night at 1F Projects MIDNIGHTINTRUDER | CYRIL Y | SAMANTHA NICOLE 9PM | P500 Poster by @cloathes_studio

NOV 14, Friday night at 1F Projects MIDNIGHTINTRUDER | CYRIL Y | VADER 9PM | P500 Poster by @cloathes_studio

1F Projects presents Backroom: a Halloween special with Timmy Harn. @titotimmy Join us and the filmmaker for a double screening on October 31: Dog Days, a Filipino drama 8-10pm Reptilia in Suburbia (Ang Pagbabalat ng Ahas), a creature feature, 10:30pm-12:30am Door: 300 Students: free entrance Poster by @cloathes_studio

This year marks a personal milestone for releasing music under my name. “Landscapes” is now open for pre-order thru the Bandcamp link in my bio. “Over the course of more than a decade, Consunji has transitioned from label releases to independent work, from sound design to live performance, and from niche raves to vinyl shelves. Landscapes is the culmination of those paths…” (Elijah Pareño, Still Movements @rollingstoneph ) 12” vinyl copies are limited to less than 270 copies, including a BONUS TRACK: “Y is The Beginning”. Track list: 00 Y is the Beginning 01 Pyramids 02 Light Systems 03 Weight of Stone 04 28-10-19 05 Noise 06 Magick 07 Souplesse 08 Subharmony 09 Inverse Horizon Artwork & Layout by Derek Tumala Produced & mixed by Mario Consunji Track 06 drums by Dugdugpack Vol01 Mastered by Norman Nitzsche Imagina Records 2025 (IR002)