Renegotiations in Self-Determination
Choreographies of Labo(u)r
Something of Substance
The Wittgenstein Project
Written in Codes
Reversed Dunk
Mashed Potato
Choreographies of Labo(u)r
Something of Substance
The Wittgenstein Project
Written in Codes
Reversed Dunk
Mashed Potato
Renegotiations in Self-Determination: Being In-Between (2020)
The project ‘Renegotiations in Self-Determination: Being In-Between’ aims on contextualising the impact of colonialism and globalisation in portraying the ‘state-of-being’ of (undocumented) Oversea Filipino Workers in Barcelona. The attempt of creating artificiality: the paradox process of constructing intimacy; documentarism in the artistic field; descriptions of Marx’s theory of alienation from the self as a consequence of capitalistic fetishisms of endless growth and optimised production mechanisms. Narratives of individuals accepting deprivation for the sake of economic improvement and delusive abundance. Their migration experience shapes and fragments their ‘identity’*, self-determination and self-construction, which elevates the importance of their (des)integration in society in the format of coexistence, cooperation and collaboration.
Dispersed in the city of Barcelona, ‘Renegotiations in Self-Determination: Being In-Between’ is an analysis and a series of encounters with OFWs, historiographical references, cultural agents, and institutions.
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Modular Works: Object Constellations & Configurations No. I-V
The project ‘Renegotiations in Self-Determination: Being In-Between’ aims on contextualising the impact of colonialism and globalisation in portraying the ‘state-of-being’ of (undocumented) Oversea Filipino Workers in Barcelona. The attempt of creating artificiality: the paradox process of constructing intimacy; documentarism in the artistic field; descriptions of Marx’s theory of alienation from the self as a consequence of capitalistic fetishisms of endless growth and optimised production mechanisms. Narratives of individuals accepting deprivation for the sake of economic improvement and delusive abundance. Their migration experience shapes and fragments their ‘identity’*, self-determination and self-construction, which elevates the importance of their (des)integration in society in the format of coexistence, cooperation and collaboration.
Dispersed in the city of Barcelona, ‘Renegotiations in Self-Determination: Being In-Between’ is an analysis and a series of encounters with OFWs, historiographical references, cultural agents, and institutions.
