Derek Tumala (Dekdestroy)
Derek Tumala (b. 1986, Manila, Philippines) is a multidisciplinary artist working with new media, video, sculpture, installation, drawing and artistic research in the pursuit of ecological world-making. His art practice revolves around the mediation of science in art and interconnectedness. Tumala received a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts Major in Advertising Arts at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.
Tumala’s notable artistic projects were presented at the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts; Der TANK, Basel Academy of Fine Arts and Design FHNW; Biennale Jogja 17; World Weather Network; Sainsbury Centre, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art & Design-Manila; Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; and Art Basel Hong Kong.
He participated in the Delfina Foundation Artist Residency, London; Manila Observatory AiR; International Rice Research Institute Art-Science Residency; Apexart Fellowship New York; 10x10 Korea Research Fellow; and Salzburg Global Seminar. He collaborated with cultural institutions British Council, Goethe Institut and Japan Foundation.
Tumala received the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s Thirteen Artists Award (2024) and was named an ArtReview Future Great (2024).
Huang
A veteran of Manila’s electronic dance scene, Erick Ong has been quietly central to the city’s nightlife for over a decade, DJing under aliases including Huang, Mulan, and Vader, with a long-running residency at Black Market and opening sets for visiting acts like Kode 9, Daedelus, Pinch, Jim Masters, GaslampKiller, and Addison Groove. He co-founded the now-defunct underground venues XX XX, Black Market, and B-Side.
Mario Consunji
Mario Consunji is a Manila-based artist and producer working across electronic music and sound design. He’s known for his earlier minimal synth project Big Hat Gang, which debuted on Number Line Records in 2011, though his work has since moved away from song form toward ambient and sound. His most recent record, Landscapes, released under his own name, originated as an audiovisual piece staged at Kaput 8 in collaboration with Derek Tumala, treating ambient not as background but as a core mode of expression.
Type Distort Decay
Jois Tai is one half of Inksurge, the Manila design studio she has run with Rex Advincula since 2002, work spanning branding, packaging, illustration, and furniture, featured in design publications across Singapore, the US, Spain, and Germany. As Type Distort Decay, she creates hallucinatory images from layers of 2D geometry, an act she describes as “an exploratory typeface workout.”
