This timeline showing the events that took place both in the researcher's PhD study and her curatorial practice from 2016 to 2023.
MAR - Researcher transferred from Doctor of Creative
Arts to PhD in Creative Arts program at UOW
RESEARCH TIMELINE
PHD STUDY
FEB - Researcher was accepted in UOW but had to
defer until July 2017 because her study leave in the
University of the Philippines was not approved on time
JUL - Researcher went to Australia to commence her
Doctor of Creative Arts in UOW
AUG - Researcher decided to fly back to the Philippines
2016
2017
PRACTICE
NOV - AARPS was established
MAR - Movement Without Moving - Part 1
APR - Art in the Hood. First consultation meeting with
the Dumagat, NCIP, and MODE in Casita Aurora.
JUN - Formal launching of AARPS.
Movement Without Moving - Part 2
SEP - Con.Currents. Point of Sublation.
OCT - Long community immersion. Informally asked and
received permission from the Dumagat to use AnD as case
study for her PhD
FEB - Researcher flew back to Australia
APR - Researcher flew to the Philippines
SEP - Researcher flew back to Australia. RPR. At this
point, her research topic was set on the AnD festival
DEC - Researcher was informed of a change in her PhD
supervisor
2018
FEB - Researcher sent an email to NCIP to seek
permission to use AnD as case study for her PhD
MAR - Dialogue (audio recorded) with the Dumagat
through AARPS confirming permission to use AnD as
case study. Capacity-building workshops.
MAY - Start of militarization in Dingalan. First Adow ne
Domaget Festival celebration.
A community resolution permitting the researcher to use
the AnD in her study was created and signed by the
Dumagat Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative.
FEB - Researcher applied for HREC
SEP - HREC was finally approved
OCT - Researcher flew back to Australia on the third
week of October
2019
APR - Militarization in Dingalan ended
MAY - Ethics meetings in Dingalan with NCIP and the
Dumagat community. A few days after, the Dumagat elders
and chieftains signed a formal community resolution
permitting the researcher to use the festival as her case
study.
End of May: Adow ne Domaget 2019 festival
OCT - Planning meeting in Brgy. Umiray on the first week of
October to prepare for the Adow ne Domaget festival 2020
2020
FEB - First ethics amendment
MAR - COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. The Philippine government declared ECQ and total lockdown starting March 25, 2020.
APR - Contingency planning meeting with the
researcher's supervisors
APR - News of militarization again in Dingalan.
Voice Letters. Planned with AARPS to create a radio program
MAY 9 - Aired the first episode of AnD 2020 KKK
JUN - Aired the last episode of AnD 2020 KKK. AARPS
evaluation meeting, in which sprouted the idea of Doculektiv
JUL - Produced and released 3 weekly episodes of Doculektiv
"DOCULEKTIV: Archiving as Curatorial Exercise in (Re)Imagining Gathering and Collectivity in the Time of Physical Distancing," written by the researcher, was published in Japan Foundation's Suki magazine
OCT - Performance Curators' Initiative's week-long online
symposium on "Conversations and Performance in the Time
of Halting and Transformation"
SEP - Second ethics amendment
Throughout 2020 to 2022 - The researcher conducted
several online presentations featuring the Adow ne
Domaget 2020 KKK radio festival, Doculektiv, and the
AARPS Collective in various local and international
conferences.
APR - "Curatorial Practice as Community Work," written
by the researcher, was published in Academia.edu
JUN - "Artistic Practice as Radical Care" in Fresh Treat
2021
FEB - PhD study break to attend to health, student visa
expiration, and transfer back to the Philippines
APR - "Doculektiv: A Curated Conversation on Creative
Practice and Collective Work in the Time of Crisis,"
written by the researcher and the AAPRS Collective,
was released in the Philippine Humanities Review
2022 to 2023 - Finding new resources, further reading,
and reconstruction of the PhD exegesis
NOV - "Merging Asynchronous Sounds into
Synchronous Voices," written by the researcher,
was published in Turba journal
2022
