Transcestral Gathering

isola tong is a Manila-born California-based artist, architect, and organizer working at the intersection of ecopoetics, spatial justice, postcolonial identity, and speculative futures, invoking these motifs by activating public spaces, inhabiting institutions, and building environments. Inspired by ecofuturism, she imagines counternarratives through the idea of the cyborg as a metaphor for our tangled lives where the boundaries between the body, space, materials, the social, technology, and nature are transgressed. She graduated with a master of fine arts in environmental art and social practice from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2023. In the spring of the same year, she was a graduate student instructor of the first Introduction to Filipino Language and Culture course with Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Languages and Applied Linguistics at the same university.