Magic Maids ( 2024~ )
Eisa Jocson & Venuri Perera
CCP Tanghalang Ignaclo Gimenez, Manila, Philippines, 7 - 9 November 2025

Magic Maids will be touring across multiple locations, bringing its powerful message to diverse audiences. An evocative performance that intertwines dance, ritual, and resistance, challenging the deep-rooted structures of oppression that have long despised and exploited the female body. Drawing from the archetypal figures of "the witch" and "the maid," the performance explores the misogynistic matrix in which these roles exist as two poles of the same continuum-despised, feared, and subjugated throughout history.

The performance demystifies the entwined histories of European witch-hunts and the global exploitation of domestic workers, particularly from the Global South. Eisa Jocson from the Philippines and Venuri Perera from Sri Lanka-two countries with significant exports of domestic workers-reveal how accusations of witchcraft continue to persecute migrant workers today. In their performance, the broom, a symbol of domesticity and witchcraft, becomes both a tool of oppression and a vehicle for feminist resistance, embodying the continuous metamorphosis of the art workers and their struggle.
They pledge themselves and their audience to fight against the invisibility of care work and oppressive power structures, aiming to release, reclaim, rejoice, and reconnect with primal energies.

Theater van Deyssel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19 - 20 April 2024
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, 13 - 15 September 2024
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany, 20 - 22 September 2024
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore, 4 - 6 October 2024
Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria, 11 - 12 October 2024
New Marigny Theatre, New Orleans, United States, 2 November 2024
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, 7 - 8 March 2025
Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland, 14 - 16 March 2025
Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, Strasbourg, France, 20 - 21 March 2025
Points communs- Théâtre 95, Cergy, France, 25 - 26 March 2025
La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 29 March 2025
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 3 - 4 May 2025
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 22 - 23 May 2025
Niedersächsische Staatstheater Hannover, Hannover, Germany, 21 - 22 June 2025
Derrière-les-Remparts, Fribourg, Switzerland, 29 June 2025
Great Hall, Makhanda, South Africa, 4 - 6 July 2025
Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy, 12 - 13 July 2025
Leeds School of Arts, Leeds, United Kingdom, 25 October 2025

Upcoming tours: CCP Tanghalang Ignaclo Gimenez, Manila, Philippines, 7 - 9 November 2025
Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, 20 - 21 November 2025Magic

The Filipino Superwoman X H.O.M.E. Karaoke Living Room, 2025

Singapore Biennale 2025 : Pure Intention
31 Oct 2025 - 29 Mar 2026

#03-52 Lucky Plaza, Singapore

This living space, inspired by Filipino karaoke gatherings (Bidyoke), features music videos produced by H.O.M.E. members as part of Eisa Jocson's presentation at the Singapore Biennale 2025. These videos, created through workshops led by Franchesca Casauay and Jocson, celebrate the creativity of H.O.M.E. members. Visitors encounter performance video works by The Filipino Superwoman Band, including Superwoman KTV (2019), TFSB:2020, Empire of Care (2020) and Pasyoke (2021).

Drawing on oral traditions of heroic tales through epic poetry, participants created music videos of personal anthems that affirm dignity, resilience, and collective feminine agency across generations. Set within a living room at Lucky Plaza, a Filipino enclave, the work channels bonds of chosen kinship, life aspirations, and feminine empowerment into the shopping centre unit. The work reflects on how caregiving and domestic labour are commercialised today, inviting visitors to consider the sorrow of displacement and sacrifice in the lyrics.