mumulak is a spirit being witnessed by children in the barrios of Iloilo and Hinigaran in the Visayas. Though mumulak ‘s origin remains unknown, a B&W 1970’s comic book found in Iloilo depicts fragments of their life: where they abide, where they sleep, their love of wandering, bells, basketball, singing, and the endemic flowers that surround them. Children who’ve encountered mumulak say mumulaks are always wearing the #33 basketball jersey (amongst all available number combinations), and that their closest companions appear to be them (the children) and plants alike.

mumulak emerges when truth and illusion align, creating a perceptual shift where boundaries between self, body, and everything else begin to dissolve. Operating across bodily (micro) and spatial (macro) sound systems, mumulak functions as synthesizer—rerouting sensation, perception, and memory to allow the body to inhabit itself differently. Through durational performance, mumulak deliberately dwells outside normative temporal and autonomic patterns, attending to states typically unconscious, fleeting, or suppressed.

mumulak disrupts fixed identity, creating a softening—where the body is open for reprocessing.