Adunay Nabinuran sa Kanal ("Something Has Been Found in the Canal" (2024)

in collaboration with Bangkô

In 2029, a sound-generating relic has been found in the Suez Canal. Through scattered social media notes in various Filipino languages, we flesh out stories and speculations on what this is all about.

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      Adunay Nabinuran sa Kanal 1.1

      Transcript of a conference call wherein participants to the project talked about            language and translation. 

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Ode to my Playlist (2022)

JGD made a book of songs by collating the titles of all the unclassified music files on her computer

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As a Matter of Stilling (2020) 

We asked people on social media to send photos and stories about their workplaces as they 'work from home'

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Bionotes in Negative (2019)

We asked people to submit their bionotes  - with a twist. 

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Remarkable plants of Post-Quake Baguio-La Trinidad, circa 2130 (2019)

Speculative botany

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Salta ng mga Salitang Filipino (2018)

Random people are asked for non-Filipino (Tagalog) words to describe the current administration.

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Selling Half The Sun And Other Statements of Accountability (2016)

On her way from Baguio to Naga for BLTX, JGD writes about "writing about travelling while travelling", the politics of indie publishing, among other things

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do you not think so far ahead (2016)

Meditation on creativity and autonomy with photos of toilets

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This is a Working Zine (2015)

Pedantic Pedestrians attempts to make a zine and fails successfully. Documents the process and releases it as the zine itself.

 

Ngayon ay Buwan ng Wika (2014)

Variations of the sentence "Ngayon ay Buwan ng Wika."

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[Sic] Autocorrected Poems (2014)

Poems by esteemed Filipino poet Rio Alma subjected to algorithmic violence.

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Oncept 5: Vandalisms with Citations (2015)

Collection of street graffiti vandalized with in-text citations.

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Oncept 4: "Trees" (2014)

A Powerpoint presentation reworking of Joyce Kilmer's classic poem "Trees"  featuring an anti-trees Baguio politician.

 

Oncept 3: Anthology of Works Collected for Undisclosed Reasons (2014)

An anthology of texts, selected and compiled for undisclosed reasons and criteria

 

Oncept 2: Last Page of a Google Search (2014)

A collection of last pages of various Google searches.

 

Oncept 1: Torture: A Manual (2013)

A collection of intelligence extraction methods enacted on a text, namely, BS Aquino's SONA 2013.

 

Notes for the Oncept Series

An introduction to the series

 

Book Launch Without A Book (2013)

23rd of July, 2013, Pedantic Pedestrians organizes a book launch in Engineer's Hill, Baguio City. No book was actually launched.

 

Magsaysay (2013)

A travel brochure/ psychogeography journal of sorts.

 

Sampayan ng mga Salita (Word Clothesline) (2012)

Assemblage of words created for mass action

 

IV/ Fourth Folio (2014)

Fourth folio with works by Ivan Emil Labayne, Petersen Vargas, Kervin Calabias, Janine Go Dimaranan, Jennifer Patricia Cariño, John Levi Masuli, Chad de Guzman, Ma. Angela Ramos, Vince Dioquino, Dumay Solinggay, Arkon Dia, and images by Tilde Acuña.

 

Pedantic Pedestrians III Folio

Third folio

 

Pedantic Pedestrians II Folio

Second folio

 

Pedantic Pedestrians First Folio

First folio