interplay_2023
about

artist Miguel Maravilla (+ a whole bunch of guest speakers, poets, artists)

forms spoken word, sound collage, multi-media video

title I Wish To Be Taken For Granted*

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An audio-visual triptych of conversations between the histories of colonial violence in the Philippines1, the vocalized reflections and frustrations of Filipino youth and their material conditions today2, as well as the futurist sonic imaginings of a truly sovereign homeland free from the exploitative, extractive, and displaced realities of the Philippines as a neo-colony.

"ANG TAO, ANG BAYAN, NGAYON AY LUMALABAN!"

"Natututo tayong magwagi."3

* shares the same title as a poem by Filipino revolutionary, political prisoner, professor, and theorist, Jose Maria Sison

1 "[...] kill everyone over the age of ten [and make the island] a howling wilderness." - Jacob H. Smith, General of the U.S. Army during the Philippine-American War (1899-1902)

2 Justice4JollibeeWorkers

3 Sampaguita — Maria Lorena Barros (1973)