The site hosts notes and writings which historically regard the logics behind art’s colonial, modern, and national guises in the Transpacific, just as they are contemporarily taken by the entitative and vitalist conditions of their subjects and objects. The name Tumba-Tumba repeats the onomatopoeic and Romance root ‘tumb’ which denominates the sound of falling, at the same time it is pan-Philippinely conceived to be a rocking chair. How one supposes a life and emerges to be but another, is among the spirits of inquiry after which Tumba-Tumba invites intrigue to a greater degree than appraisal.

Kiko del Rosario is a researcher at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. His essays on printed and painted matter have appeared in the journals Impact, Southeast of Now, and Miradas. Elsewhere, he has represented artists through profiles written for the Encyclopedia of Philippine Art and Archive of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions. 

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