Fellow to Felt is an ongoing, multi-channel video series that examines various aspects of Filipina/o American identity and tradition. Each video features original and found footage, archival photographs, and obscure historical events, spliced together with pop culture and internet references. Together, these loosely bound, disparate elements of the familial, cultural, and personal refuse standard notions of “history,” looking at Filipino/a diasporas through the traditional lens of kapwa—which I conceptualize as the consciousness of the interrelatedness one has with others. This is rooted in one’s political, cultural, and economic histories, as well as the contemporary struggle to make meaning of our social conditions.

Eileen Isagon Skyers (Brooklyn, NY) has worked with contemporary art and nonprofit arts organizations including the Whitney Museum, David Zwirner, Rhizome, the New Museum, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, PICA, and the Digital Museum of Digital Art (DiMoDA). Her first book, Vanishing Acts, was published by LINK Editions (Brescia, Italy) in 2015, and her writing has been published in the New Museum Catalogue Trigger: Gender as a Tool and Weapon, NATASHA, Wreath, Glass Press of the Future, Web Safe 2k16, Printed Web, and New World UNLTD, among others. Her moving image work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in the U.S., U.K., France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Skyers holds a BA in philosophy and a BFA in studio art from the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) and an MA in critical studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR).