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This chapter illustrates how artists, activists, and cultural workers have and might further activate archives through the crafting of exhibitions and public programming in contemporary Philippines. The chapter focuses on the archives that were built up in response to the imposition of martial law under former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s term (1972–1981). Archive-making is also examined in a climate of unbridled social media counter-narrative making. The chapter touches on the problematics and challenges of independently initiated projects as well as institutionally supported ones.
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The Marcoses were allowed to return to the Philippines by the then President Corazon Aquino in 1991 to face multiple charges filed against the family. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ran as Vice President in the 2015 Philippine national elections and lost to Liberal Party candidate Leni Roberedo. At the time research began for this writing, he was still contesting the results of that election.
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Among these are http://thefilam.net/archives/8292, http://www.karapatan.org/Memories+of+Marcos+Martial+Law+and+Beyond%3A+Stories+of+Unsung+Heroes, https://8list.ph/personalities-who-were-martial-law-victims/#read-more, http://rogue.ph/butch-dalisay-ricky-lee-writers-remember-prison-life-martial-law-era/ and https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/56610/40th-year-of-martial-law-declaration-triggers-artistic-outpouring/, accessed September 2018.
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Cua Lim has also written about how serendipitous and indispensable initiatives undertaken by private citizens enabled seminal archival gains for Filipino film. See her essay/talk called “A Brief History of Archival Advocacy for Philippine Cinema” done for the 2013 Philippine Cinema Heritage Summit report published by the National Film Archives of the Philippines, pp. 14–20.
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Cua Lim, Bliss. Archival Fragility: Philippine Cinema and the Challenge of Sustainable Preservation. Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University Newsletter No. 67, Spring 2013, p. 20.
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Legaspi-Ramirez, E. (2024). It Takes a Village: Archives Talk Back. In: Pan, L. (eds) The (Im)possibility of Art Archives. Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5898-6_12
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