RESBAK!

ARTS & RESISTANCE AGAINST THE DRUG KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES

This exhibition and showcase coincides with CCNY’s Third 2024 Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference, April 17-19, 2024, which aims to explore the contested legacy of human rights in increasingly uncertain times.
RESBAK
RESBAK (RESpond and Break the Silence Against the Killings) is an interdisciplinary alliance of artists, media practitioners, and cultural workers. The primary goal of RESBAK is to advance social awareness with regards to the killings brought forth by the Duterte administration’s “war on drugs.” “Resbak” is also a slang term for gathering reinforcements to get even with someone who did something wrong. Through various art forms and platforms, RESBAK seeks to give voice to and empower the most vulnerable sectors targeted by the state-endorsed killings. 

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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE
Economic inequality, racism, sexism, and multiple refugee crises have engendered and exacerbated the rise of political extremism.  Addressing such issues, as well as many others, the Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference aims to explore the contested legacy of human rights in increasingly uncertain times.  It seeks to foster dialogue and scholarship from a wide range of perspectives. Some conference presenters are scholars and activists who continue to view the human rights project as a moral and ethical challenge to power; others see it as an enabler of political and economic domination.
    The Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference participants seek to reassess the origins, foundations, and contemporary forms of human rights discourse, ideas, and practice today, seventy-five years on. The Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference is part of a larger initiative at The City College of New York, CUNY, shared between the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and the President’s Office dedicated to human rights studies, public programming, and scholarship.

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SUNY/CUNY SOUTHEAST ASIA CONSORTIUM
The SUNY/CUNY SEAC is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote research, teaching, and related efforts around Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Americans in New York’s public universities. The Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) aims to develop institutional infrastructure and robust connections across New York’s public university systems—the 64-campus, 370,000-student State University of New York (SUNY) and 25-campus, 270,000-student City University of New York (CUNY)—with the wider New York public and policy community, and with counterparts in Southeast Asia. The statewide SEAC links faculty, students, alumni, and surrounding communities.

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AKSYON: Films for Change - Short Film Showcase

SCREENING + DIRECTOR TALKBACK

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024, 12:00-2:00PM
LUNCH, Faculty Lounge
SCREENING + TALKBACK, Auditorium

City College of New York
25 Broadway, 7th Floor, NY, NY

In Alunsina, Director Kiri Dalena explores the potentials and limits of engagement within a community facing trauma. Working closely with human rights organizations, she finds herself documenting the struggles of children and families in an urban s ettlement severely affected by the government’s war on drugs.
Lunch will be provided for attendees by SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium.


DIRECTOR & RESBAK FOUNDER
KIRI DALENA
Kiri Dalena is a visual artist who lives and works in Manila, Philippines. She studied Human Ecology at the University of the Philippines and was introduced to filmmaking through the Mowelfund Film Institute. Her work consistently addresses the social inequalities and injustices, particularly in the Philippines. In all of her artworks, she asserts the importance of protest and activism against state persecution. Her work has been displayed and screened internationally including documenta fifteen (2022), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Berlin Biennale 11 (2020), Manila Biennale (2018), Shanghai Biennale (2018), Jakarta Biennale (2017), Busan Biennale (2016), Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2015), Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale (2014), and Singapore Biennale (2013). She works both as an individual artist and as part of collectives (Southern Tagalog Exposure, 2001-2008, Respond and Break the Silence Against the Killings, 2016-Present).


































































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