Bulawanong Tahom: The Aesthetic Life of Precolonial Cebuanos
Friday, November 27
The lecture, led by Prof. Jay Nathan T. Jore, looked into the creative practices of precolonial Cebuanos as recorded by the chronicler of the Magellan expedition Antonio Pigfetta and other archival documents. It discussed how precolonial artists and artisans in Cebu imagined, created, and performed artistic works and how the people made use of them in relation to their physical, social, and cultural environment.
By looking into the practices of tattooing, teeth ornamentation, head-binding, jewelry-making and textile weaving, the lecture teased out the crucial place of the human body as site and symbol of power in relation to precolonial aesthetic attitudes and conception of beauty.
This was organized in partnership with University of the Philippines – Cebu.