Day 5 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 11: The Weakest Assumption
SESSION 11: The Weakest Assumption Fellow: Sievney Klyze G. Quidet (Poetry, English, Cebuano) Moderator: Rex Sandro Nepomuceno Rex Nepomuceno framed The Weakest Assumption through the notion of “uncreative writing”—to reinvent writing not through creation, but derivation, thus challenging commonly held conceptions on authorship, artistic inspiration, and organic unity. Quidet’s collection put this to practice through […]
Day 4 of the 9th ALBWW, SESSION 10: After archive
SESSION 10: After archive Fellow: RJ Ledesma (Poetry, English) Moderator: Luna Sicat Cleto Of Ledesma’s After archive, Luna Sicat Cleto put forward that the key to understanding the collection is the combination of the words: “after” and “archive.” She praised its sharp, newer approach to documenting activist work, deviating from the commonly masculine tropes of […]