Racquel de Loyola Cruz
Racquel de Loyola Cruz (Philippines, b. 1980) is a Manila-based performance artist whose work addresses migration, displacement, identity, and globalization in the post-modern and post- colonial Philippines. Cruz graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in music in 1996 and then went on to study traditional singing at the InstitutSeni Indonesia in Yogyakarta from 2002 to 2003. Her interdisciplinary art incorporates vocal work, sculpture, and site-specific performance, and investigates a complex landscape of ideas concerning women, consumerism, and the contemporary world.
In 2013, Cruz received a six-month Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Fellowship to research arts and culture in the United States, exploring how immigrant communities intersect with and participate in New York City's contemporary art world. She also collaborated with fellow ACC grantees in exhibitions in New York at Grace Exhibition Space, Panapoly Performance Laboratory, and Blackbox Theatre. Her fellowship experience led her to envision “creating a new platform of art initiatives involving students and the younger generation of art practitioners; sharing networks and links from [her] personal experience; encouraging and empowering the local communities by providing art talks and workshops for encounters between young and local artists; and engaging the public to create new ways of …
Racquel de Loyola Cruz (Philippines, b. 1980) is a Manila-based performance artist whose work addresses migration, displacement, identity, and globalization in the post-modern and post- colonial Philippines. Cruz graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in music in 1996 and then went on to study traditional singing at the InstitutSeni Indonesia in Yogyakarta from 2002 to 2003. Her interdisciplinary art incorporates vocal work, sculpture, and site-specific performance, and investigates a complex landscape of ideas concerning women, consumerism, and the contemporary world.
In 2013, Cruz received a six-month Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Fellowship to research arts and culture in the United States, exploring how immigrant communities intersect with and participate in New York City's contemporary art world. She also collaborated with fellow ACC grantees in exhibitions in New York at Grace Exhibition Space, Panapoly Performance Laboratory, and Blackbox Theatre. Her fellowship experience led her to envision “creating a new platform of art initiatives involving students and the younger generation of art practitioners; sharing networks and links from [her] personal experience; encouraging and empowering the local communities by providing art talks and workshops for encounters between young and local artists; and engaging the public to create new ways of expanding creativity and awareness […]This will certainly help to share all insights and experience aimed to local communities as well as connecting links in both in verbal and non-verbal ways of exchanges.”
De Loyola actively engaged on cross established disciplines and continues exploring with new possibilities for her creative processes and methodologies. She is currently working with soft fabric sculptures and cloth based expositions.
Courtesy of the Asian Cultural Council
