Christian Tenefrancia Illi



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Selected Works:

THE DROP (2025)

REVERSED DUNK (2023)

SOIL-BEINGS: Lamánlupa (2024/25)

Flat Works or Untitled Material Studies: 갯벌 (2025)

Field Notes on (Structural) Silence:
Or, How to Camouflage with Colours (2025)

TINIKLING.EXE / TERROR or 3/4 (2022)

Renegotiations in Self-Determination: Being In-Between (2020)

Choreographies of Labo(u)r (2020)

Something of Substance / In the End (2020)

《 Mashed Potato 》 (2020)

LUDWIG VAN — BTHVN: Hommage à Mauricio Kagel (2020)

FRAGMENTS OF IDENTITY in the postcolonial PHILIPPINES — DIPLOMA (2017/18)

« Ceci n'est pas l'Afrique » ; 𝔅𝔢𝔯𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔡 ℑ𝔩𝔩𝔦 (2002) -- Tropical Malady (2017/18)

花樣年華 — IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2017)

St. Luke’s — Medical Center (2017)

SELF-CRITICISM — 自己批判 (2017)

They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals / Kinakatay nila kami parang mga hayop / 他们像屠宰动物一样屠杀我们 — 自己批判 (2016)

COURAGE & INTEGRITY (2015)

L i ñ a g e s (2015)

HERDING ISLANDS, RATS & THE ANTHROPOCENE — Planting ≠ Rice (2015)

P E R D U — À la recherche du temps perdu (2015)

Noli me tángere; อันล่วงละเมิดมิได้ {TOUCH ME NOT} (2015)

南華早報 — SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST: The Nine-Dash Line (2013—ongoing)

P Á R Á S Ï T É — A Great Orgy (2013)

CHAU CHAT: Le Début — X.Y. op. 39 (2010)



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THE DROP


<The Drop> is a site-specific installation and ritual act that connects Imja-do with the historical ruins of a salt farm on Jeungdo. Within a context marked by administrative boundaries between islands and long-standing regional distance, the relocation of a single anchor became a time of institutional negotiation, trust, and physical labor—a layered process of collaboration. Recovered from the shoreline of Imja-do and transported across multiple islands, the anchor carries the traces of travel, weight, and shared labor. Discovered on 20 September 2025, moved to Jeungdo on 22 October, and finally released on 20 November from a height of twelve meters, the anchor was driven into the ground in a single, irreversible gesture accompanied by a salpuri; 살풀이 ritual. Embedded within a concrete basin and buried one meter beneath the surface, this act inscribes the memories held by both sites—extraction, loss, and displacement—into material form.
(2023)