Alice Sarmiento

Manila/Philippines — Cultural journalism, Solitude fellow 2019

Alice Sarmiento is a writer and independent curator born and raised in Manila, Philippines. She fosters small animals, sews on occasion, and writes for a living. Alice has published work with a number of magazines and journals, including Ideas, the online publication of Asia Art Archive, and the Art Studies series published by the Japan Foundation Asia Center. She is a cofounder of Grrrl Gang Manila, stubbornly clinging to the notion that another world is possible.

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Alice Sarmiento:

Reportage

First We Feast

by Alice Sarmiento

In her documentary essay, Alice Sarmiento reports on the life, and motivations, and cultural backgrounds of German-Filipino women. In English with a Hiligaynon translation.

Notes

Thank God for Slavery!

by Alice Sarmiento

In her narrative notes and collages the Manila-born writer and independent curator Alice Sarmiento writes about her personal encounter with the labor migration flow in the Philippines, one of the largest labor exporters in the world.

Editorial

Membrane – Boundary & Connectedness

by Schlosspost

A membrane is employed as a boundary-object and as a site of connectedness. Looking at this dual character of the membrane, the discussion in this issue is about flows, exchange, permeability, and translations, as well as about restraint, rejections, and protected areas.

Essay

Surrendering to the Beat

by Alice Sarmiento

Alice Sarmiento’s article reveals the power of dance to resist the repressive methods of the war on drugs in the Philippines, within Manila’s poorest districts.

Cultural Journalism

Cultural Journalism – In a Moving World

with Alice Sarmiento & Enos Nyamor

Two new fellows for cultural journalism and digital media have arrived. Alice Sarmiento and Enos Nyamor provide insight into their thoughts and ideas.