Southeast Asian Artist: To Be Or Not To Be. Abstracted Notes, Speculations and Dreams of Reset
Like Professor Caroline S. Hau, I find resonance in the questioning, and also see it as nuanced by the inescapable infrastructures of my origins, such as being a Filipino and a Philippine-passport-carrying art practitioner, who is automatically contained within the Southeast Asian grouping. By proclaiming an art practice, I contemplate my location and position, and look at a selection of ways by which the region, particularly the Philippines, has managed being managed under this geographical identifier.
