Product Description
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.
Manila-based undergraduate Fine Arts and Communication Arts students and faculty from Philippine Women’s University, and the Baguio-based AX(iS) Art Project collectively engaged in spoken word, performance art, film screenings, forums, workshops, and barter-trade, which are all inextricably linked to the works in the Markets of Resistance four-volume set (accompanied by a general introduction booklet). 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. We invite our readers 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. - Publisher
Note: 1 set of 5 books (4 paperbacks and 1 smaller booklet)
