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For its 33rd Annual Citations for Distinguished Achievement in Film, the Young Critics Circle Film Desk is honored to have Dr. Flaudette May Datuin of the Department of Art Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines as the keynote speaker.
Prof. Datuin wrote numerous publications in national and international publications. Her first book on Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts from the nineteenth century to the 90s (Home Body Memory) emerged from her engagement with women artists in the Philippines and Asia. From her research on women artists in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan (through grants from the Asian Public Intellectuals and the Asian Scholarship Foundation, Japan Foundation Asia Center, among others), she curated and organized exhibitions and forums, among them Women Imaging Women (1996-1997), trauma, interrupted (2006-2007), and Nothing to Declare (2010-2011).
Datuin’s current research and pedagogical interests include gender issues in the arts, art and ecology, and art and healing. In her most recent writings and engagements, she is veering towards interdisciplinary method and pedagogy. She has founded a team that teaches an interdisciplinary course on Disaster Risk Mitigation, Adaptation and Preparedness Strategies (DRMAPS) based at the UP College of Engineering. As scholar in residence in LaSalle-SIA, Singapore, and through her keynote addresses at the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne in 2019, she discussed problems of art historical methods and how art history, criticism and curation can contribute and respond to broader and urgent concerns, where the earth— as seen in the ongoing health and ecological crises—is reaching, if not already, its tipping point in the context of environmental disequilibria on a planetary scale.
Join us at the @UP Vargas Museum on November 10, 2023 at 3:00 PM for the awards ceremony. If you’d like to participate in the event, please register at this link: tinyurl.com/2022films.
We are grateful for the support of the University of the Philippines-Diliman Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts (@UP Diliman OICA) for making this event possible.
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Poster image from Batsoy (2022) by Roland Espinosa Batallon
