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In Our Stillness
Cooking from a Migrant Memory
When The Typhoon Ends
Filipino Poets and Their Poems
Exhibition 01
Collaborations
Sharjah Biennial 16
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale
Duke University Press
Asia Art Archive
Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation
New York University Abu Dhabi
Jameel Arts Centre
Alserkal Avenue
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DAZED Middle East
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DATE:
APR 2025
Sharjah Biennial 16
Sa Ating
Sa Ating
Pag-Tahan
In Our Stillness
LOCATION:
SHJ, UAE
In Our Stillness | Sa Tahanan Co. at Sharjah Biennial 16
Filmed by John Gatapia of Seeing Things Studio
April Acts
April 19 2025
Africa Hall, Sharjah
Commissoned by
Sharjah Art Foundation
Overseas, the gathering of migrant bodies is a respite; a site of reckoning and endurance. The root word of tahanan, tahan, means to stop crying; to find comfort — referring to ‘home’ as a feeling of respite from struggle. Drawing etymological connections to our language’s pre-colonial roots, we find resonance in other languages. In Malay, tahan means to endure or withstand; in Javanese, it translates to stay or to hold; in Malagasy, its cognate mitàna translates ‘to carry, to keep.’
These derived meanings serve as our curatorial invocation to invite Filipino artists and thinkers to reflect on their practice within the context of their migrancy. Sa Ating Pag-tahan / In Our Stillness is a series of performances that weave together dance, poetry, audio, and video work within the emotional context of tahan and its meanings— to stay, to keep, to hold, to endure.
Our gathering overseas is honoring the heritage and plurality of our narratives. In collectivizing, we continually ask — how do we strengthen the space that we claim? How do we carry new formations of community that both hold who we were, are, and becoming? In the journey longer and further away from the motherland, how do we hold each other?
This work is commissioned and supported by Sharjah Art Foundation for Sharjah Biennale 16’s April Acts program. Thanks to the biennale’s co-curator Amal Khalaf for the invitation.
In Our Stillness | Sa Tahanan Co. at Sharjah Biennial 16
Photographed by Niño Consorte of Seeing Things Studio
Anna Bernice delos Reyes
Augustine Paredes
Performers
Memoryall
Pauline Doctolero
Augustine Paredes
Anna Bernice delos Reyes
Rei Co
Ana P. Santos
Technical Direction
Thomias Radin
Acknowledgements
Alexandra Chaves
Alexis Convento
Salber Lee Williams
Joanna Settle
Printed Matter
Illustration, Design, and Publishing
by Augustine Paredes
Illustration, Design, and Publishing
by Augustine Paredes