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Protected: Pushing against the roof of the world Part II
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Pushing against the roof of the world Part I
First of two parts assessing ruang rupa’s prospects for Documenta 15 A large concern in many texts of Indonesian mythology seems to be the need to raise the sky. The concern appears in the myths of China and Hawaii but the forms they take there are not as extreme as in the Indonesian stories, where… Continue reading Pushing against the roof of the world Part I
Protected: After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-Eda, 2016)
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Rage against the image
On the night of February 25, 1986, the Filipino people took to the streets to celebrate the downfall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Around ten thousand protesters held a vigil to retake Malacanang, the presidential palace originally built by the Spaniards for the Governor-General of the former colony. The plaza which was once open… Continue reading Rage against the image
Protected: Gasgas ng alikabok
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Pantasya ng bayan
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, the use of the word "pantasya" has acquired a number of meanings. I suppose our grandfathers and grandmothers used the word in its oldest sense, of fantasy or phantasy, which they probably labeled improbable literature. In other words, out of this world. I've always been fascinated by the… Continue reading Pantasya ng bayan
