April 21, 2024
h. 16:00
Teatro Galli – Sala della musica

A lecture-performance that revolves around the themes investigated by Liryc Dela Cruz in the project Il Mio Filippino, which the artist carried out in recent years. Dela Cruz will also share the outcome of his residency at Santarcangelo Festival as part of the project In Ex(ile) Lab. Il Mio Filippino starts from Ang Paghahanap sa Alaala ng Simula (The Search for The Memories of The Beginning, 2016), a film made by the artist that deals with the themes of memory and the lost history of pre-colonial Filipinos. The film explores how Spanish colonists systematically destroyed indigenous objects and relics (which they considered symbols of evil) in an attempt to impose Catholicism in the Philippines. These acts, carried out primarily by Spanish priests, resulted in the obliteration of valuable artefacts of pre-colonial civilisation. The convergence of Liryc Dela Cruz’s research on memory and oral history through cinema, the exploration of gestures, movements and choreography aims to reveal and shed light on the construction of “Filipino” identity, an identity shaped and limited by centuries of colonial domination, oppression and slavery.

Bio

Liryc Dela Cruz is an artist and filmmaker from Tupi, South Cotabato, in Mindanao (Philippines) and Rome (Italy). His works has been performed and shown at numerous international film festivals and contemporary art venues, including Locarno Film Festival, Matadero (Madrid), La Neomudéjar (Madrid), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), UK New Artist, Artissima (Turin), Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Teatro di Roma (Rome), La Biennale di Venezia and Ocean Space (Venice). Dela Cruz’s films are thematically related to his origins, history, biography and interiority, whereas his performances and research focus on care, hospitality, indigenous practices, decolonial practices, post-colonial Philippines and the transpacific trade of enslaved people. Recently, Dela Cruz inaugurated his first major exhibition, Il Mio Filippino: For Those Who Care To See, at Mattatotio di Roma. The exhibition follows the trajectory of his multi-year research on exhaustion, slavery, care, hospitality and colonial history of the Philippines. This year, Dela Cruz was nominated by Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum as their Artist for Artica 2024.

Credits

research, direction, cinematography, sound, production design and written by Liryc Dela Cruz
production management by Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr.
with Tess Magallanes, Benjamin Vasquez Barcellano Jr. and Liryc Dela Cruz

Duration

40′

Tickets

Free entry