Hidden Gestures
Hidden Gestures has performed at 1F Projects on multiple occasions, including the Sonar Planar lineup.
Performance
Ambient soundscapes with live visual
1F Projects presents LIMINAL, an ambient listening program with live audio-visual performances. Here, liminality is explored as the in-between of soft and coarse progressions within the shifting threshold of sound and image. 1F Projects transforms into an immersive space where layered audio and synchronized visuals shape a shared sensory experience.
Hidden Gestures has performed at 1F Projects on multiple occasions, including the Sonar Planar lineup.
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).
CRWN is the project of King Puentespina, a Filipino producer, songwriter, and artist whose work spans soul, experimental, avant-garde, and club. Active since 2013, he has produced for Nadine Lustre, LONER, Clara Benin, Jason Dhakal, and others, and released his debut album Séance, a dance-music-centric record with ten collaborators. He has played Malasimbo, Wanderland, and Wonderfruit, with international shows in New York, Tokyo, and Singapore.
Tim Lopez is a Quezon City–based illustrator, visual artist, and graphic designer.
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.
Miggy Inumerable is a Manila-based visual artist whose practice expands the act of drawing across sculpture, installation, and new media, frequently incorporating science and computer programming, with work that aims to translate time-based experiences through rule-based systems where complexity and dynamism emerge. Born in Manila in 1987, he holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and has taken part in residencies at Metafora (Barcelona, 2013), Takt Kunstprojektraum (Berlin, 2013), and Shangyuan Art Museum (Beijing, 2014). He is a member of the 98B Collaboratory.
