Walking Tour
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Sighting the City, Citing Ourselves
27 February 2025, 2:00 - 5:00 PM NZDT
Next to the Lighthouse, Queen's Wharf
This walking tour will engage Filipino artist Mark Salvatus’s work titled Souvenirs (2013), a compilation of images and video clips collected by his uncle in his travels as a seafarer. It will serve as an entry point and guide as we observe, inscribe, and examine ourselves and our surroundings, with ‘journey’ as an overarching theme. Drawing on Pacific connections through a tour of selected public art in the city, it will explore identity and mobility, as evinced in the act of walking. The activity also evokes crossings, an image of the city marked by grids, as well as the movement and exchanges of people, as registered in the signs, symbols, and artworks in public spaces. Sighting the City, Citing Ourselves invites reflection on how we situate ourselves in the city that we live in by finding points of connection and meaning, exploring its forgotten histories and the many identities and stories that shape it.
Our hīkoi/lakbay (journey) will start at Queen’s Wharf next to The Lighthouse. It is a 1.5-hour walk which will culminate with a debrief/post-tour discussion at the University of Auckland City Campus (Ontology Lab B302-551). The activity will be conducted in English.
To register your interest to participate in the activity, please visit https://bit.ly/pagmulatwalkingtour. Participation is free but slots are limited. Successful registrants will receive registration confirmation by email.
Sighting the City, Citing Ourselves is an event organised by the Philippine Studies Network as part of Pag(m)ulat, a series of activities which aims to foster critical engagement, knowledge production, and community building. It encourages dialogue on the Philippines and the Filipino people, and its dynamic relations with Aotearoa New Zealand while recognising the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Testing the interface of art and geography, this second offering of Pag(m)ulat hopes to expand the range of experiences Filipinos have in New Zealand and offer an opportunity to reflect about identity and what it might mean to be a Filipino outside of the Philippines.
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Image from Mark Salvatus, Souvenirs, 2013. Courtesy the artist
Project Lead and Facilitators
Louise Anne M. Salas is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Auckland. Her research titled Women Movement Dwelling explores the works of Filipina and wāhine Māori visual artists (1970-2000). Before her study leave, she taught general Humanities, Philippine art, and curatorial studies courses at the University of the Philippines.
JC Gaillard, PhD is Ahorangi/Professor of Geography at Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an International Research Fellow at the University of the Philippines (UP) Resilience Institute. He was a former faculty member of the UP Department of Geography. His main area of research and teaching is on disaster. For his projects, he has worked with various non-government organisations and local government units all over the Philippines. For more details: https://jcgaillard.wordpress.com.
Moderator
Eunice Faustino Gaerlan, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in AUT’s School of Education and leads their Master and Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning programmes. Eunice is passionate about supporting pre-service teachers in their journey to becoming registered teachers in Aotearoa. She is on the TEFANZ executive committee, the national teacher education association in NZ. Eunice's research intersects the fields of sociology, filipinx studies, gifted and talented education, girlhood studies and media studies. She is the BiPOC board representative for Gender and Education Association, an international organisation focused on research and advocacy for gender equality and serves on the Women on Campus executive committee at AUT.
Tour Route
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