Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera: Spill the Tea

Eisa Jocson’s and Venuri Perera’s “Magic Maids” highlights the working body, particularly female domestic labour from the Global South and the brown female body that performs it. In collaboration with the Island Tides Initiative, an Interdisciplinary Philippine Research Programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna that promotes a survey of artistic strategies from Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Jocson and Perera delight us with a post-performance tea party discussion on how gossip is a strategy of information sharing and solidarity, one that circumvents and upends typical methods of “knowledge production”.