Our website is scheduled for a software update Monday, August 17th from 7AM to 12PM HST (17:00-22:00 UTC). To avoid potential issues, please postpone uploads and edits until after the update.

Pag+mul+mula+an: an Ilokano Place of Planting

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorFerreira, Jose
dc.contributor.advisorChan, Gaye
dc.contributor.authorGoldschmidt, Rebecca Maria
dc.contributor.departmentArt
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-11T22:20:03Z
dc.date.available2024-03-11T22:20:03Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.degreeM.F.A.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/107991
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subjectLanguage
dc.subjectTextile research
dc.subjectDecolonial Education
dc.subjectFilipino-American
dc.subjectIlokano
dc.subjectPhilippines
dc.subjectPlant Fibers
dc.subjectWeaving
dc.titlePag+mul+mula+an: an Ilokano Place of Planting
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.abstractPag+mul+mula+an is an alternative place of learning and an in-between space - part-school, part-garden, and part domestic sphere - that allows for the dialogic recovery and sharing of ancestral knowledge. It is a place of rest and rejuvenation, learning and unlearning that fuses the methodology of auto-ethnography with participatory art practice. I center my personal experience in reclaiming the Ilokano language while also inviting the viewer into socially-engaged interactions. I begin at the site of self and migrant family history and our position in overlapping histories of resistance to American imperialism and white supremacy. Incorporating aesthetic explorations of this journey via photography, fibers, weaving, and print, my MFA exhibition, Pag+mul+mula+an, brings to light some of the more insidious obstacles of historical racism, assimilation and cultural erasure faced by Filipinos in Hawai'i and the United States. Drawing on notions of aesthetic hybridity based in borderlands theory, this space is an amalgamation of personal memory, stereotype, and natural materials. Viewers lounge on patchwork cushions made of traditional handwoven fabrics mismatched with vintage floral textiles while watching short films about rice. Large weavings of scavenged plant material provide a backdrop for a plant-medicine workshop. Historical images of American-style classrooms in the Philippines remind us of the legacy of institutional education on our minds and bodies, while a self-published book of writings by participating artists and educators features land-based thinking influencing the project. Great care is given not only to the construction of the space itself, but also the social interactions necessary for the work to come together as a whole - elements are borrowed, collectively created, and collaboratively engaged. The entire exhibition puts into practice the most essential focus of my research: where and how collective living can work in unison with the natural world.
dcterms.extent37 pages
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa
dcterms.rightsAll UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.
dcterms.typeText
local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:10619

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Goldschmidt_hawii_0085O_10619.pdf
Size:
5.36 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

M.F.A. - Art