Boondok Arts present: "Bulaklak ng Dila" at Bindlestiff Studio

MAY 4-6, 2006
"Bulaklak ng Dila"
Bindlestiff Studio
505 Natoma Alley (at 6th St)
San Francisco, CA
ALL AGES, $5 suggested donation
www.bindlestiffstudio.org
For more info: contact 415.255.0440 or email
boondokarts(at)emailplus(dot)org

Thursday, May 4th:
6pm - Gallery Opens
8pm - Bong Agung, CD RELEASE of "HOMEBODY",
9pm - Screening of short-film, "TV"
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Friday, May 5th:
6pm - Gallery Opens
7pm - Screening of short-film, "TV"
8pm - Power Struggle, Pedro Gil, Tsubibo & Eskapo
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Saturday, May 6th:
6pm - Gallery Opens
8pm - Screening of short-film, "TV"
9pm - Screening of KIDLAT TAHIMIKS, "Perfumed
Nightmare"
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Influenced by Manuel Ocampo, Red and Rizal, Filipino
Collective Boondok Arts re-enters Bindlestiff Studio with
“Bulaklak ng Dila”, an art installation and performance set in
a theater space.

(San Francisco, CA) Last year, “Protektado”, their first
exhibition as a collective, transformed Bindlestiff Studio into
a sleeping womb. Murals by Mel Vera Cruz and England
Hidalgo of a church covered in feces, photographs by Julius
Dimanlig of the streets of Marikina, black and white prints by
Lian Ladia of Christianized Aetas, and a single channel video
documentary on the journey of an organizer to the
Cordilleras were protected and shelled. This was an
installation on “Our response to colonialism” they said.

This time from May 4th - 6th, “Bulaklak ng Dila (flower of the
tongue)” an idiomatic _expression in the Filipino language,
Tagalog that means “exaggeration of meaning” or
“subversion from the truth” will show the universal concept
of language and hypocrisy in an art installation by England
Hidalgo, Angelica Cabande, Lian Ladia and Julius Dimanlig.
Along with paintings by Mel Vera Cruz and Marcius Noceda
and a short film directed by Nono Ani and photographed by
Peggy Peralta entitled, "TV” a 6-minute short-film that
explores reel and real life in the eyes of a modern child.

Bong Agung (also known as Ogie Gonzales) will have a CD
release of his first solo album. Bong Agung’s
accomplishments are important to the Filipino-American
music scene being one of the founders of Pinoisepop and
was one of the originators of punk movement in the
Philippines with his band Valley of Death. He also played
percussion for the legendary jazz rock band Bobby
Banduria, the soul pop princess Golda, Charmin and along
side Kulintang Master, Dannongan Kalanduyan. His album,
Homebody will be released on the opening day of the
gallery, May 4th.

Second day will be band performances from LA-based Pedro
Gil, NYC/Bay Area's Power Struggle, Tagalog punk and folk
band Tsubibo and Hardcore punk band Eskapo from Vallejo.
May 6th will end with the screening of Kidlat Tahimik’s
movie, “Perfumed Nightmare”.

Boondok Arts is a collective formed by students from the
San Francisco Art Institute, Academy of Art University, and
grassroots artists from the Bay Area Filipino-American
community. Boondok Arts promotes progressive
__expression of ideas through experimentation in different
genres. Inspired by Jose Rizal and Juan Luna’s art collective
in Barcelona and influenced by artists like Manuel Ocampo,
Santi Bosse, Masferre and Raymond Red, these students,
activists, musicians and scholars from the Philippines seek to
create a movement that revolutionizes history through art.

BAND/PERFORMERS BIO:

BONG AGUNG
A long time ago, in a black box theater, down in the natoma
wine country in the south of market district of San Francisco,
California, there was once a community arts organization
called Teatro Ng Tanan (TNT). They produced a play called,
"Mr. and Mrs. Lacuesta goes dancing", by Noel alumnit. This
was the birth of the legendary Bobby Banduria Band. The
band's original line-up included Bobby Banduria on strings,
Fernando Funk on bass, Bong agung on drums and
percussion. Bong Agung collaborated with musicians, poets,
actors, teachers, organizers, researchers, aunties, uncles,
lolas, lolos, tatay at nanay, pinsans, and anybody under the
sun that loves music. Bong Agung loved music so much that
he and his brother Jing organized a filipino-american music
festival called piNoisepop. Now that Bong Agung is grown
and has a kid named Milo, he's been spending alot of time at
home. Bong Agung got a computer, a synthesizer, a
sampler, a drum machine, no turntables but a microphone.
'homebody' is an album made during stolen moments at
home, and is near and dear to his heart...para sa iyo ito
Milo. Tayo na magsaya. www.myspace.com/
bongagung

TSUBIBO
ANG TSUBIBO ay paikut-ikot, kaya't ang nakasakay rito ay
pabalik-balik sa kanyang pinanggalingan, at matapos ang
ilang sandali'y walang kinahihinatnan kundi ang kanya ring
pinanggalingan. We found this on the web while researching
tsubibo. Ferris wheel, that's what it means. Circles, giant
wheel turning, cycles, seasons, life? It keeps going round
and round, up and down. Dust to dust. check them out on:
www.myspace.com/tsubibo

Power Struggle
For six year Dj Deetalx and I were a part of the Hip-Hop
quintet Oddjobs. We had toured the country many times
over, making friends and enemies alike. Sleeping on floors
and random beds, driving from state to state in a van that
was more like a pirate ship than a piece if American
ingenuity. Those were great times but the fat lady sang her
glass shattering verse, and it was time to bring it to an end.
Kill the Vultures was born, and Dj Deetalx and I had created
Power Struggle. Power Struggle is a personal voyage on a
deserted high way a quarter past midnight. Please join us on
our journey that began in Brooklyn NY and ended in San
Francisco California. "Arson At the Petting Factory" will be
available as the last week of October. pls. visit: http://
www.powerstrugglers.com or www.myspace.com/
powerstruggle

Pedro Gil
If a dose of catchy Power Pop squall is what you need, then
look no further than Pedro Gil. The Los Angeles-based
quintet is a layered fusion of different musical influences:
Oasis, Tool, Bob Marley, Sublime, The Beatles, Weezer, and
Saves the Day.

The hybrid love-child of defunct LA bands Two-Headed
Chang and Six Years Into, Pedro Gil emerged in early 2002
with a set of irresistibly-hummable tunes and now has 2 self-
produced EPs: Blurry All the Time released in August 2002,
and New Love Songs In Broken English, released in August
2004. They are currently recording their first full-length
album at Love Juice Labs in La Habra, CA. pls. visit: http://
www.pedrogil.net or www.myspace.com/pedrogil

Eskapo
Eskapo in Tagalog means refugee or escape. Eskapo was
the name of Political prisoners who escaped Pres. Ferdinand
Marcos's twenty year regime . Eskapo is a melodic political
hardcore band with lyrics in Tagalog and English whose
home town is Vallejo CA. Their music has been described as
an energetic mix of Stiff Little Fingers meets Los Crudos
with a nod to Pinoy punks band of old like WUDS, Yano, and
Philippine Violators. “We appreciate anyone who gets into
our music and the message of unity and peace that we
portray”. check them out on: www.myspace.com/
Eskapo