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Event series

January 30 to February 01

Dealing in Distance

Arts Festival|Pakikipag-ugnayan sa Layo

Dealing in Distance © Goethe-Institut

Dealing in Distance Manila © Goethe-Institut

Thinking about diasporic identities - lives shaped by immigration and displacement- is to think about becoming. It is relentless negotiation of selves through encounters. This January, after travelling across four cities Southeast Asia, Dealing in Distance will reach its final stop Metro Manila where, like a rhizome, entangled identities form a temporary community through stories, memories and sensibilities that transcend distances, languages and histories of each individual.  

Initiated by four Goethe-Institutes in Southeast Asia, Dealing in Distance brings together Southeast Asian and diasporic artists based in Southeast Asia and Germany to explore themes of migration and identity in distance. A culmination of this journey, Dealing in Distance presents new works from our three residencies in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, alongside contributions from an open call selected by a jury. 

Dealing in Distance offers a wide array of artworks from exhibitions, performances to interactive and collaborative workshops. 

All in total the travelling festival showcases eight artists with eight exhibitions, two performances and five interactive engagement programs in six different locations around Quezon City. With this approach we encourage the participants to explore another perspective of distance, which proposes distance as a method that enforces connection, solace and solidarity. 

Related links

Dealing in Distance Project Page

Events

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    Dealing in Distance Exhibition

    Art Exhibit | By Various Artists

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  • Dealing in Distance Festival Opening

    Festival Opening | Festival Opening

    • Gallery 119, Metro Manila

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  • The Body as Archive and Witness: Performance-making at the intersection of body, labor, and migration

    Roundtable Discussion | With Alvin Collantes, Eisa Jocson, and Jenny Logico-Cruz | Moderated by: Dr. Diego Maranan

    • Corner26 Co-working (COCO), Quezon City

    • English/Filipino

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  • Girls gotta do what girls do?

    Interactive salon performance | Dealing in Distance | By Sarnt Utamachote, Tanya Villanueva & Francine Lima, Sharon Rose Dadang Rafols, and two members of Philippines Sex Work Collective

    • Chapterhouse, Metro Manila

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  • Leave your Kalat on the Floor

    Artist Talk and Performance | With Jared Jonathan Luna of Kiki House of Dirty

    • Corner26 Co-working (COCO), Quezon City

    • English/ Filipino

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  • Bibingka

    Drag, Poetry, Video, Dance Performance, Performance Art | Dealing in Distance | By Alvin Collantes

    • Teatro Marco, Metro Manila

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    Mongol Rewinder #03: Mixtape from the Ancestral Swamp archive

    DJ Set | By Ancestral Swamp

    • Chapterhouse, Metro Manila

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  • KalatOKE Party

    Karaoke Party | Hosted by House of Dirty and Bibingka

    • Kusina sa Balangay, Quezon City

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  • Dose of Pleasure

    Dance Floor Activation | Dealing in Distance | Hosted by Alvin Collantes with music from Magenta

    • Teatro Marco, Metro Manila

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  • “For the long time, we hold the world on our shoulders”

    Film screening with hybrid Zoom conversation | Curated by Sarnt Utamachote, in conversation with Parichat Pai, representative of Ban Ying (Berlin) via Zoom and a member of Philippines Sexwork Collective (in-person

    • Teatro Marco, Metro Manila

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