I'm Coming Home to Stay (Karaoke)
Postcards to OFWs in Hongkong and London
Portrait of an Aunt from Overseas
Beyond Myself is part of the bigger project,
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Photographs of objects that Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) bring from the Philippines to their host countries and those that they send back home to their families, with the OFWs' narratives written on the exhibition labels
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Walk Around London with Liza plays a recording of my conversation with Liza, an OFW in London, about how she left her abusive employers and joined the Filipino Domestic Workers Association in UK, and a video recording of our "day off", roaming around the city and visiting tourist spots.
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Garla's Escape plays a recording of my conversation with Garla, an OFW in London, about the story of her escape from her abusive employers in Qatar, and a slowed down video of the view from my own room where I stayed for in London, a month after I arrived in the UK for work.
I'm Coming Home To Stay is a series of karaoke videos of Filipino songs sung by OFWs in spaces in London and Liverpool
Postcards to OFWs in Hongkong and London invites the guests of Vargas Museum to write messages to our workshop participants and give feedback to the Curating Development team. At the back of these postcards are the artworks that the OFWs have made during our workshops in London and Hongkong.
Portrait of an Aunt from Overseas shows my collection of birthday cards that were sent to me every year by my aunt who works and lives in America.
This is part of my project, Stories we only Learn through Skypecalls and Letters, where I collect documents, paraphernalia and memorabilia that were kept by the members of the Filipino Domestic Workers Association (FDWA) as documentation of the growth of their organization. These paraphernalia were given to me by the leaders of FDWA to compile into a book that would tell the history of the organization.
These documents were displayed alongside books and other scholarly texts written about Filipino migrants in the UK and Hongkong, as well as documentations of the workshops we conducted for Curating Development.