CONCLUSION
Emergence
In this final leg of this confluence, we emerge from a maelstrom of entangled analyses: from the attentiveness and intentionality of the listening voice, the dance between presences and absences in constructing stories, the decisiveness of the voice that appears, assembles, and talks back, and the fluidity of the same voice, finding its eloquence in gaps, leaks, and discrepancies. With this emergence, the researcher hauls into formulation the underlying ‘ethics’ in making the radio program, in aligning ethical considerations within that time and space of its making, in articulating ethical relations that shape and are shaped by this process of making, and in enacting ethical decisions drawn from these considerations and relations.
Teta Tulay, Emergence, drawing, 2020
Below is the video "Palag," a reworked excerpt from the AARPS's project DOCULEKTIV, showing the collective's process in coming up with a statement on a national issue, particularly the ill-planned COVID response plan of the Duterte regime and the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
On the left is the statement that the collective developed and released through this process.
EPILOGUE
Undercurrent
The researcher concludes this journey with a brief yet unsettled chapter that intertwines her personal experience and story with the story of the PhD, the creative project examined in this PhD, the community, and the Collective.
Teta Tulay, River, drawing, 2023
Snippets of the researcher's experiences during her early days in Wollongong.
[Left] A photo of the researcher's trash bin (as mentioned in the Epilogue), which was overturned week after week after week by her bogan neighbour.
[Right] The researcher's Instagram posts in 2017 documented the sounds around her in an attempt to map out her surroundings. The first post was a video of her neighbor in Wollongong singing, and the other showed the sound of strong wind through a bottle brush tree—both attempts at mapping her own existence within these spaces.
It was at this time when she lost her voice that she discovered how to "speak" using the sound of her environment.
Buhay Katutubo radio program
When COVID restrictions eased up in Dingalan, one of the first projects that the Dumagat community organised on their own was their own radio program, entitled Buhay Katutubo (Life of a Tribe).
And just as this journey starts with the researcher's voice, so does it end it with her voice.