Confessions of a M@ssKara
Collaborative Workshop & Public Performance with Stay Wild Moon Child (Bacolod, Philippines) 2019Referencing Yukio Mishima’s novel “Confessions of a Mask,” the mode of diary storytelling is adopted to reveal the performances of the everyday, where control of conflicting emotions is coded & experienced as gender & sexuality. Excerpts from my fieldwork diary during the festival & public confessions from community survivors of sexual violence (posted on She/Her/I’s #DearDiary) are re-read aloud as parallel inner worlds processing experiences of emotional turmoil through speech text. Happening within purview of cultural spectacle performing colorful fantasies of masked happiness, becoming in/visible in degrees of opacity, transparency & accountability, plural confessional voices come to speak on one’s agency to tell their own stories behind the seen, requiring deep listening. Suspended in ritual intimacy of expressive acts calling for affective attention & communal care, the cultural context of performance, dance & movement is intentionally looped in “Confessions of a Masskara” to promote reparative relations to embodied archives for personal & collective transformation.
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BIG THANKS & DAGHANG SALAMAT to Stay Wild Moon Child (led by @inahdaze), participants of eMotion Archives workshop hosted at Figure 8 Dance Studio on March 28 & 29, 2019 (Raffy, Rosabet, Zana, Inah, Darla, Geli), & She/Her/I's #DearDiary, providing a platform in Bacolod to share stories from survivors of sexual violence. Thanks Manny Montelibano for audio/visual set-up & support to perform in front of Project Orange.
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