Patrick Cruz is an artist, educator, and albularyo from Quezon City, Philippines, based in Toronto, ON. In his work, Cruz considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies. Cruz employs meditation, divination and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the relational manifestations of clown philosophy, magic and the occult in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.
Patrick Cruz
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