About

Conceived in Mexico City and issued in Manila, Tumba-Tumba presents essays on aesthetics, exhibition reviews, and interviews with artists and thinkers premised across South East Asia, Oceania, and Latin America.

The site hosts writing which historically regard 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.

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.

The writer

Kiko del Rosario is Senior Lecturer of Art History at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and 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 written artist profiles for the Encyclopedia of Philippine Art and Archive of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions.

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