Please Explain: Kababayan

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Join Sulman Prize-winning artist Marikit Santiago for an insightful conversation with WSU Associate Professor Anna Cristina Pertierra.

Reflecting upon their lives in Australia, exhibiting artist Marikit Santiago and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at University of Technology Sydney Anna Cristina Pertierra will discuss the experiences and representation of Filipina-Australians in daily social, political and cultural life. This intimate conversation will examine the influences of family, motherhood and religion on Marikit and Anna Cristina, and how this confluence of forces formed their personal identities and professional careers.Learn more about Marikit Santiago&#x27;s exhibition For us sinners <a href="https://4a.com.au/exhibitions/marikit-santiago-for-us-sinners" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

Please Explain: Kababayan Marikit Santiago in conversation with Anna Cristina Pertierra Saturday 14 May | 2:00pm - 3:00pm 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 181-187 Hay St. HaymarketThis talk will be live-streamed via Instagram Live (Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/4a_aus/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@4A_aus</a>)

Working across painting and sculpture, Marikit Santiago co-opts her practice with references, imagery, and symbolism from her Australian-Filipino ancestry, Catholicism, and the Western Art canon. Within these pluralities, she interrogates their existing contradictory sensations, values, and ideas.Professor Anna Cristina Pertierra is the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Anna is an anthropologist with international expertise in consumption and material culture, urban modernities, and media and popular culture. Regionally, her work focuses on Latin America and the Philippines. Anna’s current project is New Consumer Cultures in the Global South, a comparative ethnography of urban consumers in Asia and the Americas.Prior to joining UTS, Anna held several research leadership positions at Western Sydney University, in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, and at the Institute for Culture and Society. Anna has authored and edited six books, including Media Anthropology for the Digital Age (Polity 2018); Media Cultures in Latin America (with Juan Francisco Salazar, Routledge 2020); and Locating Television: zones of consumption (with Graeme Turner, Routledge 2013).Please Explain: Kababayan is produced by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art as part of Marikit Santiago: For us sinners, curated by Micheal Do and produced by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

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