Jennae Santos

(they/she)

is an interdisciplinary artist building tactile mythos through eco-somatic performance, sound/song, and the psychedelics of play.

Jennae was born and raised in the Bay Area, is based in Brooklyn, and has ancestral roots across the Philippines archipelago.

Fed by Indigenous Filipino psychology and combat, foodways, plant medicine, coastal ecologies, and animal architecture poeticized through the lens of genderqueer fluidity, decolonization, bloodlines, mythmaking, love song, and pleasure autonomy, their work spans chamber prog ensemble, liberation dance music, movement cycle, tea ceremony, drone, communal ritual, social practice, video, sound sculpture and other intermedia incarnations generated through—progressive art-rock project, gushes, earth-body research-response container, Eternal Oyster, and sensory installation partnership, Tree+Oyster.

Santos is a mostly self-taught guitarist and songwriter, trained in theatre and film/video at Fordham University.

She is a recipient of the Bagri Foundation’s “At Home in the World” commission for her movement video series set to loop compositions, Loops for Bedroom Dancers, and Audiofemme’s The Agenda grant for an ongoing community mixtape project exploring harvest field recordings and farmer interviews in collaboration with various food justice-oriented New York farms (Red Hook Farms, Star Route Farm). Santos is a movement resident alum to Rhizomatica Residencias #1 led by choreographer, estrellx supernova.

Select past professional productions include Karen O’s (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) psycho opera Stop the Virgens at St Anne’s Warehouse in Brooklyn and The Sydney Opera House directed by Adam Rapp, Spooky Death Ride Sister Wives band with Yuka C Honda (Cibo Matto), Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof), Jen Goma, and Noga Shefi, Dronechoir by Arone Dyer (Buke & Gase) at Basilica Hudson, Wave Hill, and O+ Festival, repairing permissions with Accidental Movement choreographed by Mariangela Lopez at Gibney Dance Center, and Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 with Nature Theater of Oklahoma at The Public Theater (NYC).