I’ve been paralyzed for moons waxing grief and anxiety, bound by the jaws of sudden scarcity, anger, tension into fatigue, woven by the frays of colonized, capitalist paradigm. It’s a centuries-long thread, extending back through ancestry, to weave the fabric of resistance— Movement. The roots are your intimate nerves in your room. Not from scratch, Not alone. Collectively Magnetized despite hard isolation. I am no container & neither are you for when constructs burn, Spirits dance.

In editing this series, I’ve witnessed the unexpected magic of bodies moving freely, serendipitously complimentary together, without predetermined choreo, just how you felt & moved as such over these last few months.

xoJ

is a 3-part movement video series exploring intimate and communal Movement in the personal, physical, & political realms, commissioned as part of At Home in the World series open call for digital work highlighting Asian/diaspora artists in response to Covid-19, presented by the Bagri Foundation.

Dancers of diverse movement backgrounds from professional to freestyle, Hula to hip hop, musicians, painters & sex educators, film themselves in their bedroom isolations through the Covid-19 pandemic, to WSABI Fox’s slowly evolving guitar Loop Environments. In finale, we move outdoors, breaking free from quarantine and begin moving together: Drums kick in, embedded with WSABI Fox’s growing collection of Anti-Racist beats: audio samples sourced from Confederate, racist, & coloniser statues crashing to the pavement at the hands of protestors across America & in the U.K. Composed in a dynamic style reminiscent of a modern video chat in Covid, these videos feature personal movement writings throughout by each dancer. 

WSABI Fox released each song on a limited digital run with sensory stimulation prompts for any willing body to explore at home in their own bedroom. 

In line with WSABI Fox’s guiding principles in the Harvest of love and community and the Fight for the collective liberation, as represented in the Sangot, proceeds supported various agrarian and Indigenous rights movements in the Philippines and US.

The Peasants’ Movement of the Philippines | Sabokahan | Oko Farms | Sogorea Te’ Land Trust | The Lenape Center