Q&A with performance artist Dakota Camacho on their new film- ETAK; triangulating our relationship through time, past, present, future, always transforming.
23rd of March -7-8pm GMT
Q&A between the community of Plymouth, UK and artist Dakota Camacho.
In this live conversation, artist Dakota Camacho will talk with the community in Plymouth, UK about the ethos behind their film Etak: an [un]traditional Micronesian Navigation Chant, unfolding the meanings behind the poetry and visuals in the film and will break down the pillars of their culture they access in performance and life, including the terms Ináfa’maolek, inágofli’e, & ináguaiya.
In this live conversation Dakota will unfold meanings behind the poetry and visuals in the film and will break down the pillars of their culture, they access in performance and life, including the terms Ináfa’maolek, inágofli’e, & ináguaiya.
The film ETAK should be watched before the Q&A and will be available on the sttlmnt website -www.sttlmnt.org- from the 13th of March together with the exclusive premiere of a pre-recorded live zoom event hosted on the video premiere date(15th of March 2021-60 mins). The zoom recording will feature seven performance artists, cultural bearers and scholars with global ties in indigeneity, tuning in from Micronesia and throughout North America. project link
Dakota Camacho presents, Etak: an [un]traditional Micronesian Navigation Chant
Etak (pronounced Eh-tack) loosely translates as triangulation and is a Micronesian seafaring technology, used in relationship to understanding the ocean-going vessels' relationship to the movement of space and time.
“My family taught me to plot our course to home through building beautiful relationships to spaces, places, and kin. Ináfa’maolek is the energy that flows from our cultural practices. I endeavor to understand my relationship to being a good human by triangulating my relationship to the peoples, languages, cultural practices, and lands where I have experienced inágofli’e & ináguaiya. Ináfa’maolek.” -Dakota Camacho
Etak is ritual. It is the process of deeply understanding the world around us, in relationship to self and to each other, to the land and the water. In this awareness we find our place and purpose, we create the space for the co-creation of knowledge, compassion, and understanding. When we come together, we are deepening our relationships to each other.
This work invites us into contemplation of our belonging: How does an Indigenous body exist with the land and the water? How do we exist with it instead of extract from it? How do we remember our ceremonies? Where do we go to regenerate our Indigeneity (outside of our ancestral lands).
(As listed above, both the Etak short film and the pre-recorded Indigenous community engagement will be ready to experience by the Plymouth community in preparation for the third portion of the program at www.sttlmnt.org/projects/malie)