Jevijoe Vitug, Meme in the Mirror, 2020, video

Michael Jackson cringy dance moves in artificial hell, Michael Jackson hologram in Las Vegas, Michael Jackson voice choir in Southeast Asia. But where is real Michael Jackson? Perhaps Michael Jackson is just a mirage or a meme that transmit from one entity to another.

“Make that change” -Michael Jackson

“Make that cringe” - Jevijoe Vitug

Credits:

Videography: Carlos David TC

Hell flames backdrop: Springboard Collective

Video source: https://youtu.be/_ykYCL_N71M

Audio source: https://youtu.be/hhjeMprPDy0

This performance video will not be used for commercial purposes.

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Queens-based Philippine-born artist Jevijoe Vitug creates paintings, performance and community projects as avant-garde strategy to visibilize labor, indigenous legacy and the forgotten history of people of color.

Jevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005, 2006), Singapore Art Museum (2006), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2009), Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas (2012), Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2017, 2019), Queens Museum, NY (2018), San Diego Art Institute, San Diego CA (2019).

His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF, Japan (2004), Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (2008), London Biennale Las Vegas pioneered by David Medalla (2010- present), Flux residency at AroS Museum, Denmark (2018), Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019), UP Vargas Museum (2019). In 2019, Vitug is a recipient of Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program.

He is a member of Museum Union Art Workers, District Council- 37 Local 1503 and currently serves in the community resident board of directors of Flux Factory.

http://jevijoe.com