<div dir="ltr">YES to collaboration as play and also humor as a tactic of resistance: "<span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">confidence, ... courage, ... </span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">humor, ... cunning, ... steadfastness..." as the new translation has it (i prefer the Schocken one because of the word "resilience"). yes to it all. amazing stuff coming out of the vortice that comprise oceanic expressive cultures...<br></span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:36 PM Craig Perez <<a href="mailto:csperez@hawaii.edu">csperez@hawaii.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hafa adai and Aloha! <div><br></div><div>Thanks, Margaret, for the invitation to join this exciting discussion. </div><div><br></div><div>My poetry focuses on my home island of Guahan (Guam), my current home of Hawaiʻi, and the larger Pacific and our diasporas. Thematically, I address issues of decolonization, demilitarization, environmental justice, food sovereignty, political self-determination, and migration. Four of my books have been published thus far, with my fifth forthcoming next year (you can see my books here at my website: <a href="http://www.craigsantosperez.com" target="_blank">www.craigsantosperez.com</a>). When I think about "play" in my work, I think about my use of playful techniques/aesthetics, including collage, polyphony, satire, humor, gossip, the carnivalesque, and metanarratives. </div><div><br></div><div>I enjoy thinking of collaboration as a kind of inter-play. The two main collaborations I have done have been with Hawaiian artists/writers. One art installation called "defence" can be found here: <a href="http://craigsantosperez.com/defence/" target="_blank">http://craigsantosperez.com/defence/</a>. A poem-video, called "praise song for oceania" can be found here: <a href="http://craigsantosperez.com/praise-song-oceania/" target="_blank">http://craigsantosperez.com/praise-song-oceania/</a>. </div><div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, I have found that creating a space of creative play at activist events have been very fruitful. I have organized many poetry writing spaces and creative writing workshops at different kinds of protest marches, activist festivals, cultural events, and more for people to express themselves. I have also hosted poetry reading and open mics at activist events, teach-ins, etc. I believe making these kinds spaces are vital for social justice movements to keep things playful (engaging, fun, pleasurable, expressive, creative, etc). </div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to learning from everyone one. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Craig</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dr. Craig Santos Perez</div><div dir="ltr">Interim Director of Creative Writing<br><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Associate Professor, English Department</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Affiliate Faculty, Center for Pacific Islands Studies </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">& The Indigenous Politics Program</span></div><div>University of Hawai'i, Mānoa</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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