Justin Talplacido Shoulder

Justin Talplacido Shoulder is a shape shifting artist and storyteller, working primarily in performance, sculpture, video and collective events. Also known as Phasmahammer, their practice is an eco-cosmology of alter personas based on queered ancestral myth. Creatures birthed are embodied through hand crafted costumes and prosthesis and animated by their own gestural languages. The artist uses their body and craft as an instrument of metaphysics towards a queer Filipinx Futurism. Shoulder believes in performance and shared ceremony as communal medicine for difficult times.

Experimental Choreographic Residency (2016)
Experimental Performance Resident (2017)
Liveworks x Bundanon Trust Resident (2020)
Ecstasy, Liveworks (2024)