Meg Adrianne Alcano Severino

Meg Adrianne
Alcano Severino

Meg Severino is a Filipina artist and writer spanning digital media, moving image, text, installation, and research-based practices. Her work explores world-making and the emotional residue of systems, particularly those surrounding migration, faith, identity, and technology.

Grounded in process-led inquiry, Meg’s practice engages with the digital humanities, examining how archives, interfaces, and institutional language shape memory, authorship, and belonging. Through net.art and autofictional structures, she investigates how personal histories become entangled with data, documentation, and control. Her work often sits within tension of visibility, treating her mediums of choice as both an archive and a site of re-authorship.

Meg has exhibited internationally in London at Cookhouse Gallery (UAL) and Safehouse 2, and in Singapore at The Arts House, Fluxus House Gallery and Selegie Arts Centre. Her works were featured in Singapore Art Book Fair 2025. She has also performed internationally, including Tokyo, Singapore and Malaysia.

In addition to her artistic practice, Meg curated Reflections of a Shared Journey with Galerie Belvedere Singapore, and participated in Liu Bolin’s Hiding in Singapore (2025).

My practice explores displacement, and identity through digital systems and narrative fragmentation. Working across net.art, moving image, text, and interactive structures, I examine how bureaucracy, Catholic morality, and colonial residue shape the Filipina body and psyche. I am interested in the internet as both refuge and site of violence — a space where intimacy, performance, and survival coexist.

Through nonlinear storytelling, archives, screenshots, and game-like interfaces, my works mimic the instability of memory and online existence. I use digital language not as spectacle, but as autobiography: a tool to disinherit inherited shame and reimagine authorship beyond institutional borders. My practice sits between documentation and fiction, where personal histories become speculative spaces for resistance, care, and becoming.

Title: mga: e-talaarawan
Year: 2026
Medium: Video Installation
Statement:

mga: e-talaarawan is a research-led project that investigates net.art and ambient literature as durational frameworks for interrogating the queer Filipina body within contemporary art discourse. Engaging Bolter and Grusin’s theory of remediation, the project foregrounds how religious morality, familial discipline, and inherited belief systems are embedded within spatial and digital architectures. Drawing on Julian Stallabrass and Olia Lialina’s writings on net.art and open source tools, the work is continuously re-authored across physical and networked environments. Operating within autofiction, e-talaarawan (e-diary)favours slow website navigation and sustained attention, proposing the digital as a site of refuge, intimacy, and self-authorship where embodied systems shaped by shame are negotiated with instead of being resolved.