The Land We Carry
The Land We Carry is curated by @hamsalefae celebrates the re/mything of personal and collective memory. Our stories are not erased, but held in the land to retell as seasons pass.
Who are we when we unmask from the labor roles required to live on stolen land?@makeupwithlong
How can we reclaim surveillance for the body as it moves beyond nudity, past lives, and ancestral lineage?@c.ryu_portal
Can the cross reconcile both our monstrous desires and fears? Will it sink or slither if we are all exposed at once?@luyaentangled
If water can hold a prayer from each of us, what happens when it is then poured onto the land we live on?@_the_web_
All of our visions are braided through the red thread. Through our hair and hands. @prebysfound asks, how do we heal through the arts? We heal alongside, not to measure our journey but to remember it. Thank you @thefrontartecultura for hosting our festival.
cinematography and creative direction by @neighborhoodterry
show production by @rudimentary.pinay
An interactive and multimedia performance art festival in San Ysidro, “the land we carry,”
Showcased by nonprofit Viet Voices’s AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship on July 26.
Curator Hamsa Fae said they intended to create a container where Asian American and Pacific Islander artists can experiment without censorship or pressure from institutional powers, allowing the artists to say what they want to say in the ways they see fit.
They said the event was named “the land we carry” because they wanted to remind people that everyone carries so much that connects the body and mind to land.
“Our body is molded to fit the land,” Fae said. “There’s something about our bodies that we carry a geographical location, a bloodline, something cosmic as well. We don’t carry just memory or trauma. We carry all the past lives we’ve had. We carry all the untold stories that haven’t been expressed yet.”
— Daylight San Diego
Haven Luya (they/them)
@luyaentangled creates across ritual poetic performance, tattoo and pyrographic invocation, and altarwork to re-member (tr)ancestral resilience technologies and re-imagine embodied belonging. Utilizing their experience with mixedness, herbalism, and animism, they have been moved to coalesce interactive altars and performance work that interrogates how we might disrupt and re-myth patterns of domination perpetuated in our intimate and intergenerational relationships.
They recently performed their “Trans Plant Poetics” piece for the La Jolla Playhouse Queer Variety Show, and have literary and digital artwork published in Combos Press “Queer Earth Food 3 and Querencia Press “Not Ghosts But Spirits Vol II.” Born and residing most of their life on the unceded lands of the Kumeyaay people (so-called San Diego), they have lifted their roots to weave skin in(k)vocations across place.
video by @neighborhoodterry
