Patrick Flores
Bringing the inter-media and inter-Asia together in a formulation for a conference elicits a unique tension not only between procedures and regions of inquiry. It anticipates a potential theoretical field in which technique and ecology animate a subjectivity and a practice that may no longer be recognizable by disciplines or norms of representation. This keynote contributes to a reflection on a reciprocal in-betweenness in the annotation of indigenous, civilizational, and pre-conquest form; contemporary art; and the curation of artist-curators. Included in this ensemble are the efforts of Carlos Villa and the gathering Other Sources: An American Essay (1976); Club Ate and the video trilogy Ex-Nilalang (2015); the 2019 Asian Art Biennale by Ho Tzu Nyen and Chia Wei Hsu titled The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea; Eisa Jocson’s Corponomy and The Filipino Superwoman Band series; and the work of Hu Yun on the diorama for the 2019 Singapore Biennale. Through this constellation, the aspiration is to reconceptualize Asia by enmeshing it in its intricate migrations and to prompt it to move beyond the co-production of modernities as it evokes another geopoetics of an intermedial locale.