Acts of Life: Public Presentation
The concept of home is always elusive. There are many ways to define it, and no way is more accurate and adequate than others. Can we utilize the technique of cartography, particularly emotional mapping and its non-traditional maps, or even documentary photography as method and inquiry? From the map of our home, what can we deduce about ourselves? What connections can we draw between our home and our 'nation-state'/'homeland'? Can we map out emotions toward our home in order to imagine the state of 'modernity' in which we situate our home?
Participants will engage in discussions about definitions of home, followed by a presentation on emotional cartography and its different applications. A mapping exercise will follow, and the workshop will close with a short presentation of the resulting configurations and iterations.
The event is free but with limited slots. (20 participants only)
RSVP through: tinyurl.com/AoLWorkshop
Participants are encouraged to read through the supplemental readings before the workshop. For copies of the readings, follow this link:
http://tinyurl.com/AoLreadings
About the Speakers
JOSEPH PALIS is an assistant professor at the UP Diliman Department of Geography and an affiliate faculty at the Center for International Studies. He obtained his PhD in Cultural Geography at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Cultures of Mapping and Countercartographies, Geohumanities, Cinematic Geographies, Discourse of Cultural Production, and Media Geographies. Dr. Palis is a co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Pivot Series on Geographies of Media. He is also an active member of the American Association of Geographers and the Philippine Geographical Society.
AARON VICENCIO teaches at the Asian Center for Journalism, Department of Communication at the Ateneo de Manila University. He teaches Geohumanities, Basic Photography, Photojournalism, Visual Communication and Introduction to Visual Journalism. He obtained his MS in Geography from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
HUNG DUONG is an independent translator/budding curator/visual researcher based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has had experience translating a variety of materials (textual and oral) for art spaces and cultural centers in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Most recently, Duong collaborated with the National Gallery Singapore to translate a series of six texts written by artists and critics of Vietnamese modern art. His current interests include, but not limited to: linguistics and comparative literature; translation as a mode of being and understanding visual and cultural production; interethnic relations in Vietnam and Southeast Asia; and historical and sociopolitical networks between Vietnam and the regions of Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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