"Care to Listen?: Attunements to Migrant Sonic Memory" with Anjeline de Dios
Saturday, 11 July, 4-6pm at MHAS
In this intimate performance and collective listening session, singer-scholar Anjeline de Dios follows songs as a way to connect with what is silently carried in the body.
Together, we’ll revisit musical memories of migrant caregivers enshrined in personal vignettes, weaving them together with our own sonic reveries. Listening through song, we’ll explore the potency of sound as a vessel of care—enabling acts of remembrance, expression, pleasure, fellow-feeling, and healing by and for those who give care.
Based in Kraków and Manila, Anjeline de Dios is a singer and scholar. Her practice of sound performance and critical research explores the transcultural geographies of the voice in relation to labor, art, care, and healing. Her work has been featured in Künstler*innenhaus Mousounturm (Frankfurt), Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art (Słupsk, Poland), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (Vienna), the ArtsEverywhere Festival (Guelph, Canada), SAVVY Contemporary and Ballhaus Naunynstrasse (Berlin), Lingnan University (Hong Kong), Vogue Philippines, and the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, among others. Anjeline obtained BA and MA degrees in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University and Linköping University, and a PhD in geography from the National University of Singapore. She is co-editor of The Elgar Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity (Edward Elgar, 2020), and the author of Living Song, Living Labor, an ethnography of migrant Filipino musicians.
We are thrilled to welcome Anjeline de Dios back to MHAS! Anjeline was part of our “As We See Us: A Decolonial Salon des Refusés” exhibition program last year and did a powerful sonic and somatic performance, “Speak, My Language”, and conversation with Lizza May David about her painting!
You don’t want to miss this one! 😊