16th DLSU Arts Congress Proceedings Volume 7

ISSN: 2012-0311

Theme: Engagement: Art, Memory, History / Ugnayan: Sining, Gunita, Kasaysayan

This arts congress seeks to explore the intersections of art, memory, and history, and beyond that, to engage with the public audience and the communities the work of the scholars and artists. Questions we raise include: How does art serve as an expression of memory, or a repository of a people’s experiences? What practices and interventions are deployed by the humanities and social sciences to extend art to the public sphere?  How does art serve as a reactionary agent to nurture public memory, or question it, and convey the truth of history? How does art perform a historiographic function in tearing the mats of silences in histories and in fashioning alternate weaves of motifs and narratives that make truer and distinctive the heritage and values of a people, of a nation, of the world? How can memories be preserved and archived in the twenty-first century, and assume a public role?

Subthemes cover, but are not limited to, the following: Art and social justice: race, gender, class, ethnicity, environment, ableism, ageism; Art as testimony of violence and oppression; Art collectives: survivors, support, activism; Art, memory, mobilities; Art, museum, and the public landscape; Art, trauma, engagement; Archiving art and memory; Ethics of art and public engagement; Politics of art production and the formation of knowledge; Public humanities: Critical imagination and the community; Teaching public art; and Work of art in the age of digital technology.

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