UDAI
VIDEO
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VIDEO
6:45 MINUTE RT
“As a Chamoru woman I wondered how we got from Fo'na (the first maga’håga, or female leader) to Santa Marian Kamalen (Guam's patron saint). What would these two beings do if they met eachother for the first time?
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Artist Statement
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Artist Statement
THERE IS STILL LIFE
PHOTOGRAPHY
COMMUNITY
6:45 MINUTE RT
PHOTOGRAPHY
COMMUNITY
6:45 MINUTE RT
There is still life is an ancestor portrait made with and for the visitors of a Toe Fo’i: The Return talk story.
About Toe Fo’i
About Toe Fo’i
PASIFIKA TRANSMISSIONS
C0-CURATOR
PRODUCER
VIDEO PROGRAM
2020-2021
C0-CURATOR
PRODUCER
VIDEO PROGRAM
2020-2021
https://www.pieam.org/pasifika-transmissions
Pasifika Transmissions was a hybrid video program offered through the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum in Long Beach (PIEAM). It emerged in response to the closures necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic with the goals of building cross-cultural community and uplifting the voices of Indigenous contemporary artists of the Pacific diaspora and our collective ancestors. Each month, we invited an artist in our Pacific Island community to the museum to create a connection with an ancestral piece and develop a 30 minute video or “transmission.”
We then streamed the videos on Facebook and subsequently archived them on PIEAM’s website as well as Youtube. Pasifika Transmissions takes its name from the practice of listening to the spirits of the collection. What some might call an artifact, or an object, can and does hold an ancestor, a spirit, or is imbued with a life energy. Each artist responded to different calls and translated each spirit in different ways. As a producer and co-curator of this project, I used my skills as a filmmaker and photographer to support our artists and frame their work respectfully, whether it was livestreaming talks, readings, and performances, or producing more complex video assemblages.
Pasifika Transmissions was a hybrid video program offered through the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum in Long Beach (PIEAM). It emerged in response to the closures necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic with the goals of building cross-cultural community and uplifting the voices of Indigenous contemporary artists of the Pacific diaspora and our collective ancestors. Each month, we invited an artist in our Pacific Island community to the museum to create a connection with an ancestral piece and develop a 30 minute video or “transmission.”
We then streamed the videos on Facebook and subsequently archived them on PIEAM’s website as well as Youtube. Pasifika Transmissions takes its name from the practice of listening to the spirits of the collection. What some might call an artifact, or an object, can and does hold an ancestor, a spirit, or is imbued with a life energy. Each artist responded to different calls and translated each spirit in different ways. As a producer and co-curator of this project, I used my skills as a filmmaker and photographer to support our artists and frame their work respectfully, whether it was livestreaming talks, readings, and performances, or producing more complex video assemblages.
FOR FREEDOMS
2020-2021
PHOTOGRAPHY
ACTIVISM
CULTURE
2020-2021
PHOTOGRAPHY
ACTIVISM
CULTURE
Håfa taimanu nai siña ta fa’che’chu’i i tano’-ta? How can we serve our land? As part of the 2020 Awakening campaign by For Freedoms.
Full Artist Statement
Installed in Tamuning, Guam, in partnership with This Is Unfinished
Translation by Jeremy Cepeda and Dakota Camacho
Photo by 21Pixels @twentyonepixels
We Are As part of For Freedoms AAPI Solidarity billboard initiative in partnership with Orange Barrel Media.
Photo by Philip Keith @philip_keith
Full Artist Statement
GAPOTULU AS PORTAL
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PHOTOGRAPHY
2020
PHOTOGRAPHY
2020
MARIQUITA MICKI DAVIS
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