About

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

The site hosts writing which are contemporarily taken by the entitative and vitalist conditions of art in the Transpacific, just as they historically regard the colonial, modern, and national guises 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 appears as life and emerges to be but another are among the spirits of inquiry after which Tumba-Tumba invites intrigue to a greater degree than the appraisive and the critical.

The writer

Francisco del Rosario is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley’s History of Art Department. He was previously Lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and Researcher at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. His essays on printing and painting’s modernisms have appeared in the journals Impact, Southeast of Now, and Miradas. For the study of art and languages, he attended the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the University of the Philippines.

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