A creative place-keeping project debuts in Homeroom by Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts (LMQBA, est. 2020), a grassroots collective of artists and cultural workers who celebrate the diasporic Filipino communities in Woodside, Queens, and throughout New York.

Hard Ground brings together work by seven New York-based artists who employ processes of erosion, subtraction, and compression.

Over the last several decades, Gillian Wearing’s work has chronicled confessions, taboos, and voyeuristic tendencies. Her videos and photographs often confront separations between private and public realms. Shot in a southeast London shopping mall, Dancing in Peckham depicts Wearing freely dancing alone, without headphones and unaccompanied by music.

Balikbayan (“return home”) boxes are commonly filled with clothes, toiletries, and souvenirs gathered throughout the year by migrant Filipino workers who support their relatives by sending goods back to the Philippines. The boxes of Balikbayan Arch, a counter-monument by artists Xenia Diente (b. 1976, Filipino-American) and Jaclyn Reyes (b. 1986, Filipino-American) on view in Mabuhay!, will be deconstructed over the course of the exhibition and used to deliver care packages to community organizations across the Philippines. One Saturday each month, participate in Balik Sa Bayan events, whose title is derived from the Tagalog phrase meaning "to give back to one’s country.” The workshops center mutual aid efforts to connect communities across borders.