Dissident Vicinities

“The exhibition ‘Dissident Vicinities’ responds to moments— lived or archived—in the histories of people’s movements for liberation and rights in the Philippines. It reflects on the questions: How are people’s struggles visualised within various localities and spheres?  How do social movements, in turn, contribute to the visual culture of collective resistance?

The exhibition touches on how cultural work and production contributes to arenas of struggle. Such instances of rupture and advance across zones traditional and subaltern yield material objects as evidence of dissent: works of art, archival materials and agitational propaganda. Let these encounters be reminders of what can and should be in this time of power writ large; in this period of looming authoritarianism, empire guised as integration, and climates of peril.”