Conference No. 1
w/ Jord Earving Gadingan
7 AUG 2021 ~ In our first livestream, Jord and Alfred talk about conversations as research, citizen science, the politics of gossip, listening, his own position as a narrator, the luxury of sustainability, and personal stories in the fields of community and environmental work.
Sign language interpretation by Jun Sevilla and John Lester Go Dig; Duhol Matapang Snap Cam filter by Close Isn’t Home. Transcript/English translation by Tricia Velez (click here).
Conference No. 2: Oras de Peligro w/ Czar Kristoff
10 AUG 2021 ~ In Oras de Peligro, Czar shares his heartfelt and rigorous practices in photography, publishing, pedagogy rooted in stories of reconstructing memory, confronting disaster, embracing ephemerality, and seeking home. Readings include: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk; Decolonial Listening, Rolando Vasquez; 03 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep, Jonathan Crary; Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Max Porter; Not Dead but Sleeping, Anna Della Subin.
Sign language interpretation by Jun Sevilla and Renato Soriano, Jr.
Conference No. 3
w/ Dir. Bernardo Rafaelito R. Alejandro IV, CESO IV, MNSA and Mark Timbal
12 AUG 2021 ~ In Conference No. 3, Dir Raffy and Sir Mark jointly tells us about the urgenct, enduring, and collaborative natures of their work in OCD as the National Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Council’s executive arm, during dangerous, and most especially peaceful times.
Sign language interpretation by Ana Bellia Ico. Duhol Matapang Snap Cam filter by Close Isn’t Home.
Conference No. 4
w/ Abigael Castro
14 AUG 2021 ~ In Conference No. 4, Abigael shares the rewarding and challenging processes of excavating fossils from Lian, Batangas as a UP Diliman Nannoworks Laboratory research project. An offshoot of her echinoderm studies, the fragile and valuable nautilids made its way to public consciousness via the National Museum of the Philippines’s Geology and Paleontology division.
Sign language interpretation by Jerwin Darag. Snail Snap Cam filter by Olivia 🦋.
Conference No. 5
w/ Isola Tong
17 AUG 2021 ~ In our second to the last conference, Isola links gender, nationhood, and architecture with spectatorship, power, and nature. By mapping cinematic, biographical, literary, and artistic references into a supernatural ecosystem, she asserts her agency as an artist, babaylan, and transpinay.
Sign language interpretation by Maan Tugade.
Conference No. 6
w/ Guri Simone
Øveraas
9 DEC 2021 ~ In our first regular broadcast and last livestream for the year, Guri speaks with us about inhabiting different bodies through performance, art wear, and care work. Collectivity, queerness, and disability manifests in our conversation as necessary for experiences and challenges of belonging and togetherness in our contemporary world.
Sign language interpretation by Jerwin Darag.
Conference No. 7
w/ Mirjam Dalire
29 MAR 2022 ~ In our first broadcast this year, Mirjam shares with us her digital and installation works that generates a lively discussion about disinformation, internet humor, digital literacy, national politics, conspiracy theories, and a collective call to reevaluating daily media. She also generously tours us around Second Life — apparently a pre-metaverse wasteland that today hosts the residual communities of the mid-aughts — and there, we went scuba diving, visited an art show, and crashed a karaoke party.
Sign language interpretation by Jerwin Darag.
Conference No. 8-9 / Cultural Remittance Pawnshoppe | Ep. 1: The Wound and the Shell w/ Meenakshi Thirukode and Alfred Marasigan
17 SEPT 2022 ~ In a special combined and hybrid episode held at and made possible by Page Not Found and Collecting Otherwise @ Het Nieuwe Instituut, To Be Determined (Primary Cell: Clara Balaguer and Meenakshi Thirukode) facilitate a soft and lively discussion with Thirukode and Marasigan about vulnerability, borders, intuition, exchange via the wound and the shell as archetypes. How can we balance compassion and militancy across intersectionalities like race, gender, and class?
Sign language interpretation by Jerwin Darag.
Conference No. 10-11 / RE-POSING: RESISTANCE, RESPIRATION, RESOLUTION with UltraSpirit Nest (Staci Bu Shea, Alfred Marasigan, Renan Laru-an, Jason Dy, SJ) and Ultradependent Public School
[Eternal Conferences apologizes for the update delay and the large gaps of unrecorded audio from the event.]
16 APR 2023 ~ In conversation with Ultradependent Public School via Clara Balaguer and hosted in BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht, NL), Eternal Conferences went livestream onsite again. Joined by Fr. Jason Dy n partnership with Talleres de Nazaret, Alfred Marasigan, Staci Bu Shea, and Renan Laru-an, they held conversations about coming to terms with “care/nurture and control/subjugation, mortality/death and existence/life, as well as rituals/gestures and mediums/objects”, all within the frameworks of community, art, collaboration, and design.
Sign language interpretation by Jerwin Darag.
