For STAGES 2023, with Plug In ICA
Working across disciplines, Marisa Gallemit traces fragmented chronicles of migration, often incorporating objects and rites from “back home” in her artwork to ask questions about acculturation, community-building and third culture futurity.
For STAGES, Gallemit foregrounds lampaso bunot, an old-fashioned practice in the Philippines of polishing wooden floors with an unhusked coconut shell underfoot.
The ritual of cleaning is an act of service, an acknowledgement of their effort as well as a recognition of the courage required to commit to dwelling in place on Treaty One territory. It also interrogates the kind of work that is valorized and the blurry notions of security, success and evolution.
Summoning the pre-colonial Filipino concept of Kapwa (interconnectivity or togetherness), Gallemit invited fellow Filipino Canadian artists to collaborate in the making of Winnipeg Pag Ibig. Charles Romero Venzon, Nathan Flores, Karen Remoto and Trae Gallemit-Fraser are second and third generation Filipinos based in Winnipeg and Tkaronto.
The final form of Winnipeg Pag Ibig manifests in the temporary projection of the film in the window of 376 Donald Street and printed stills wheat pasted in public areas across the city.
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