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SUMMARY:Saturday University: “What Does This All Have to Do with Coconuts & Rice?”
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Saturday University\, a monthly lecture series featuring experts
  from around the world. Gain new insights on Asia throughout time as our vi
 siting scholars\, authors\, artists\, and thought leaders delve into new th
 emes each season.  \n“What Does This All Have to Do with Coconuts &amp\; Ri
 ce?”: José Maceda\, Arts/Cultural Institutions and Filipino Avant-Garde\nCh
 ristine Bacareza Balance\n\nFocusing on historical as well as contemporary 
 performances of José Montserrat Maceda’s work—both in the Philippines and t
 hroughout the Filipino diaspora—this talk meditates upon the relationship b
 etween artists and arts/cultural institutions and the scales (national\, lo
 cal\, regional\, transnational\, translocal) on which art making\, collecti
 ng\, and curation take place. Through an exploration of avant-garde aesthet
 ics and sound/performance\, it also broadly considers the questions and pro
 blems that Filipino artists\, such as Maceda\, pose for “Asian art.”\nMaced
 a (1917-2004) was a musician/composer/ethnomusicologist who devoted himself
  to a decade of fieldwork\, documenting ethnic musical traditions across th
 e Philippines. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s\, he brought the avant-garde 
 and indigenous together through explorations of sound\, ritual\, and techno
 logy. Working through the genre and practices of conceptual art during thos
 e decades\, as art historian Tina Le has noted\, Maceda and his fellow “CCP
  artists” resisted the Marcos regime while also benefiting from its patrona
 ge.\nChristine Bacareza Balance  is Associate Professor of Performing &amp\
 ; Media Arts and Asian American Studies at Cornell University\, where she i
 s also core faculty in the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP). For 2024\, she se
 rves as Thomas Tam Visiting Professor with the City University of New York’
 s (CUNY) Asian/Asian American Research Institute (AAARI). Balance is the au
 thor of Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America (201
 6)\, co-editor of California Dreaming: Movement and Migration in the Asian 
 American Imaginary (2020)\, and currently working on a book project (tentat
 ively titled) Making Sense of Martial Law. She has collaborated with Califo
 rnia-based organizations such as Visual Communications (VC)\, KulArts\, and
  CinemaSala on various public humanities projects\, and is a member of the 
 New York-based indie rock group\, The Jack Lords Orchestra.\nTickets\n$15\n
 $10 SAM members &amp\; students with ID\nTickets include gallery access
LOCATION:Seattle Asian Art Museum\, 1400 E Prospect St\, Seattle\, WA 98112
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