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Social & Cultural Geography, 2010
Geographers have begun to investigate the link between creative production and cultural memory-work, exploring how art interventions frame and facilitate engagements with the past in place. This paper builds on this emerging area of enquiry to examine the transformation of an industrial river landscape in Western Montana, and the production of a sound artwork which attempted to respond to the landscape’s unmaking with an interactive installation at a local museum. An interest in how cultural remembrance is practised and performed in relation to processes of material disarticulation guides the analysis. In conclusion, the paper proposes that a form of kinetic memory characterises engagement with ephemeral sites and the cultural productions they catalyse. The researcher’s involvement in the installation process opens up an adjacent discussion about geographical research conducted on, and through, contemporary art practice.
2018
This article is the first installment of “Nomadic Sound Worlds,” a four-part series under the Canadian Music Centre Library Residency that explores Canadian contemporary music through the lens of present-day global migration. Published in 1999, a collection of essays named "Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss" (ed. André Aciman) informs this project, with trajectories branching out from related themes including mobility, displacement, loss, reconciliation of polarized truths, and invention of selves. In this regard, the series features selected immigrant Canadian artists whose artistic worlds collide with various personal stories of immigration.
Bc Studies the British Columbian Quarterly, 2002
Canadian Society for Traditional Music, Blog, 2020
A short, reflective essay on my experience attending the memorial for flight PS 752 at the University of Alberta. First appearing in the CSTM Blog (2020), and more recently in the Society for Ethnomusicology Newsletter (2021) at:
Identity, whether collective or personal, is always attached to memory. It is then narrated in different forms, like in history, literature, and even in monuments that we build; all of these we can call memorial texts. The narrativity that these texts attain is interwoven in the way we understand ourselves, and this is what Paul Ricoeur calls narrative identity. In Merlinda Bobis’ collection of poems, Homecoming (2004), the persona, displaced by migration, political unrest, and even gender, traces her roots to the Bikol lived-world where her memory claims for homing, of a Self coming to itself. She emplots images of this world to her narrative of memory and her poems, Covenant and Coming Home to Estancia are representatives of this act. Nevertheless, memory assumes the reality of the threat of forgetting. We are capable of memory because there is a possibility of forgetting. What we memorize thus is always already a selected emplotment of the narrative that we wish to retain (politics) and by being so, to choose what to memorize or what to forget must undergo critical reflection (ethics) so that the narrated Self that is arrived somehow attains a level of objectivity with respect to the world it inhabits and/or inhibits from. The poems Sometimes, Once Upon A Time of Needle-Dragonflies and The Dead are Flying Kites best typify this ethico-political dimensions of memory. This paper is a critical reading of Bobis’ act of memorizing in her poetic narratives vis-à-vis Ricoeur’s discussion of memory and forgetting as part of the capacities that a human person has. The claim of this paper is that in Homecoming, the act of memorizing is an ontological refiguration so that the self can claim its identity. Furthermore, this paper exposes the dialectics of memory and forgetting that the poems employ and how it helps in the construction of selfhood. It is hoped that through the hermeneutics and phenomenology of memory, we can arrive home to an identity that remembers and forgets well.
The German Quarterly, 2012
Megisthos Kouros: Studies in Honour of Hugh Sackett (Aegis 23), , 2022
YouTube - The Dissenter, 2019
Versants 58:2, fascicolo italiano, pp. 109-145, 2011
Journal of Language and Literature
Cancer Letters, 2015
Microchimica Acta, 2009
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP, 2011
Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2020
Lubricants, 2022
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2018
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1997