Inspired by the welcome extended by pre-colonial Filipinos to Ferdinand Magellan’s crew on the shores of Homonhon, we invite participants to explore food-making as a speculative space of care. Together, we will reimagine hospitality not as passive acceptance, but as a practice of decolonial care, rooted in shared histories, resistance, and transformation.
FAROUT Live Arts Festival: The Convivial Laboratory Liryc Dela Cruz— Unwrapping Care and Hospitality from the Shores of Homonhon
FAROUT
practices
In this participatory event, "binalot" becomes more than just a traditional method of wrapping food—it becomes an act of radical hospitality
Bio
Liryc Dela Cruz is an artist and filmmaker from Tupi, South Cotabato in Mindanao, Philippines and Rome, Italy. His works has been performed and shown at numerous international film festivals and contemporary art venues, including: Locarno Film Festival, Matadero (Madrid), La Neomudéjar (Madrid), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), UK New Artist, Artissima (Turin), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Teatro di Roma (Rome), Santarcangelo Festival (Rimini), Far East Film Festival (Udine), PACT Zollverein (Germany), Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival (Taiwan), La Biennale di Venezia and Ocean Space (Venice). At a young age, Dela Cruz received the Bamboo Camera Award from the Father of Philippine independent cinema, Kidlat Tahimik. In 2020, he was selected as one of the young emerging filmmakers of Berlinale Talents representing Italy during the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Dela Cruz’s films are thematically related to his origins, history, biography and interiority, while his performances and research are focused on care, hospitality, indigenous practices, decolonial practices, post-colonial Philippines, and the transpacific trade of enslaved people. In 2023, Dela Cruz inaugurated his first major exhibition “IL Mio Filippino: For Those Who Care To See” in Mattatoio di Roma about the trajectory of his multi-year research on exhaustion, slavery, care, hospitality and colonial history of the Philippines. This year Dela Cruz has been nominated by Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum as their artist for Artica 2024.
- Duration 90'
This practice: can be enjoyed seated, involves audience participation, is in English, does not involve LIS, does not involve poetic audio description
less is more? In some cases, yes. As in this meeting! We have a limited number of places available. Therefore, if you have booked your place but cannot make it, we ask you to return your ticket to the waiting list so that another person can attend.
We will be happy to answer any questions you may have, write to us at farout@base.milano.it