Jennae Santos is a Filipinx interdisciplinary artist building tactile mythos through lovesong and ceremony.
I am a Filipinx interdisciplinary artist building tactile mythos through lovesong and ceremony. I am also a Farm School NYC student falling in love again with New York City, after 18 years of residence, through the vivid and generative lens of our urban food system. I live in Brooklyn, I was born and raised in the California Bay Area, and I trace my ancestry across the Philippines archipelago. These urban/queer, powerful/dramatic, vibrant/fertile coastlines compose the space from which my artistic practice spills forth. I make music, performance, video, and installation that romantically converges Indigenous Filipino culture, foodways, and land-water ecologies, with queerness, decolonization, and the erotic. I engage with and aim to cultivate community through sensory ceremony that interweaves the ambient with the anthemic, the intimate with the infinite, and revitalizes the culture in agriculture.
About
gushes is my music/performance project for which I compose, direct, design, play guitar, and sing. A tapestry of interlocking, polyrhythmic, ambient, and textural guitar loops form a foundation for mythic songwriting and theatrical performance. An ever-evolving roster of collaborators further energizes gushes’ compositions. The music is arranged for chamber prog ensemble, rock band, movement cycle, sound installation, club music, and drone.
Eternal Oyster is an earth body research-response container for eco-poetics, earth shapes, and animal architecture grounded in landback, and food & climate justice. Eternal Oyster is also one half of Tree+Oyster— my sensory installation partnership with Ana “Tree" Vásquez. Both named Oyster projects explore social practice as nonverbal play and co-creative ritual to cultivate communal intimacy.
Projects
Upcoming shows
still/moving presents screening: The Act of Killing, reading: Naven, set by gushes x KWAMI, Brooklyn
June 28, 2026 | 6:00pm
gushes x KWAMI improv duo