‘Markets of Resistance’ Book Launch and Roundtable

Join the Ateneo Art Gallery for the ‘Markets of Resistance’ Book Launch and Roundtable on September 18 (Thursday), 3:00 pm at the Ben Chan ArtSuite, 2F Ateneo Art Gallery, Soledad V Pangilinan Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.

This program is FREE and open to the public.
Register now at go.ateneo.net/MoRBookLaunch

“Markets of Resistance” is a convergence of forty-four distinct voices. Academic, cultural and visual essays, interviews, poetry, and an archival matrix of documents, images and anecdotes woven into a dynamic tapestry, address socially and cultural charged issues: re/self/ decolonialization, cultural currency, the vibrant cultural heritage of the Cordillera in the Philippines and the Indigenous Peoples resistance to Spanish and American occupations, Baguio as a multicultural creative hub, radical pedagogy, and tourism.

It springs from the creative and investigative layers of the multidisciplinary “real-time” project, the original Markets of Resistance, a six-month experimental course in a variety of cultural immersions in Baguio and Cordillera Indigenous communities that culminated in a two-week series of activities held in the sprawling Baguio Public Market.

The interconnectivity of themes and topics within, across, and between volumes inspires alternative engagements with written and visual literacy—how we read, look, listen and create critical meaning. Readers are invited into this multiverse to meander through these multidimensional materials as if wandering in-and-out of the Baguio Public Market labyrinth—a product of a menacing American colonial past where Cordillera art, heritage, and culture struggle to thrive.

The session will be joined by co-publisher and editor Angel Velasco Shaw, and a few contributors for a roundtable discussion. Copies of the book will be available at the Ateneo Art Gallery Museum Shop for PhP 4,500 per set.

For inquiries, email aag@ateneo.edu