THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, online-only, delivered by Dr Marlo De Lara (RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow 2023; AMDA College and Conservatory of Performing Arts / Coaxial Arts Foundation)
'If we were to solely listen, what knowledge could be gained' - Process in Displanting Routes: Sounding Philippine Diasporas
My project seeks to foreground the continuing connections between diaspora and coloniality, by bringing into view less discussed accounts of what the colonization and occupation of the Philippines. The histories of the Asian archipelago are not of one but many peoples with hundreds of islands that were erased by conquest and then assembled into a previously non-existent single nation. Where then is the Philippine diasporic location today, and where does it feature in the lexicon of current cultural identification that has extended beyond the homeland to those who migrate to other countries? Philippine diasporic location today is mid-transit in that it includes a somewhat tenuous and unclear cultural subjectivity. The reasons are intimately connected with how the islands were desecrated, and the land divorced from the peoples with the displacement of enslaved indigenous bodies as labour for the colonial powers. A diasporic conundrum applies to Philippine populations living abroad, a condition emblematic of postimperial transnational cultures that goes beyond previous normative Western monolithic understandings of “exotic” cultures. In this seminar, I will be examining the ways sound making and collecting (i.e. field recordings, storytelling, and aural projects) can challenge europatriarchal monolithic narratives around East and Southeast Asian migration and furthermore I suggest that using Pauline Oliveros’ concept of "deep listening” in relation to the archive can expand the ways we think about, experience, and engage in global complex subjectivities.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81857401179
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