What’s left of you? Performance, decolonisation & self-determination | Jules Orcullo | TEDxUCLWomen

How do we go about decolonising ourselves and our practices without erasing ourselves entirely? Jules Orcullo discusses combatting erasure as an East Asian theatre maker through radical self-determination.
Jules Orcullo is a Filipina Australian theatre maker and freelance producer with the newly formed The Joy Offensive, championing global solidarity through performance. As a theatre maker she has made work at, with and for Theatre Absolute, the Lyric Hammersmith and The North Wall Arts Centre. Jules Orcullo is a Filipina Australian theatre maker and freelance producer with the newly formed The Joy Offensive, championing global solidarity through performance. As a theatre maker she has made work at, with and for Theatre Absolute, the Lyric Hammersmith and The North Wall Arts Centre. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@yumcha8221]

thank you! as another Filipino living in australia, I'm very grateful for your work. thank you for shaking up the arts

[@HannahMitchell-Art]

I love that Jules includes the ladder of participation in this talk

[@danielvo8283]

Damn Jules...this is brilliant.

[@grahamt5924]

Everyone trying to get rid of white people everywhere in the world, including the countries where they are indigenous, is not good!

[@glamourd]

Kujichagulia: The Self-Determination Principle of Kwanzaa. AWESOME presentation! Thank you!

[@sadhaka7]

Brilliant speaker . Powerful ideas

[@kalynfalk2993]

I show this every year to my students. So helpful!

[@chenydeniz3594]

Decolonize ❤

[@grahamt5924]

You hate whites that much?

[@Pinkdam]

Amusingly, that would require her to decamp to the Philippines. Her insistence that BBC iPlayer (a cultural expression of the British peoples, as per the name 'BBC') represent Pinoy people is blatant colonisation.

[@goodluck4552]

I'm here because of school

[@albertskoften1452]

Half of these comments express general support for the movement, and the other half complain about reluctance to be here, yet none contain an actual opinion on theatre.

[@Pinkdam]

My opinion is that for this lady to truly decolonise her theatre, she would have to cease making demands, however implicit, on the British colonial culture she is immersed in, and look to and take from both historic precolonial Pinoy culture, particularly the dramatic elements, and a prospective postcolonial future culture and its expression.
Some, indeed most of the things she talks about are encouraging in this regard; but you can certainly never 'decolonise theatre' by working within - let alone appropriating - British colonial forms. The whole 'iPlayer' sentiment needs to go, because it's desiring becoming part of a colonial structure. If you think not seeing your face there is bad, you've not tried hard enough to imagine an effective 'colonisation' which placed Pinoy faces at the disposal of British cultural practices.
Or to put it another way, wanting the 'yellow' to appear alongside the 'white' in colonial structures is not decolonising - it's aspirational colonialism. It's like an African American wanting to be PotUS, saying it would somehow be 'decolonial'. In fact it would enthrone them in a colonial culture, on colonised land.

[@nofacenocase_304]

I slept through more than half of this video. Thanks 🙂

[@kv-ts1nr]

too much for your little brain to comprehend lol.

[@mutantbearbear5245]

@@kv-ts1nr Hey bro, we all have our own pace... some aren't ready for the hard truths yet. But be kind man, it spreads the love, rather than divide further. Have a conversation, that's how we heal :)

[@FAMEROB]

@@mutantbearbear5245 dividing people of race is a brilliant idea

[@mutantbearbear5245]

@@FAMEROB Do you mean "by race" or "a race"? Since we are all people "of race" or even multiple "races" in many instances.

[@SeunOlota]

Your problem then. Heal thyself bitter soul

[@kyzendelaguia1063]

So she criticizes an English theater for adapting Chinese aesthetics but she has no problem appropriating karaoke on her free-time when she is not Japanese? Just saying

[@mellecee3653]

karaoke is deeply embedded in filipino culture look it up lol

[@kyzendelaguia1063]

@@mellecee3653 no, karaoke (literally meaning ‘hollow or empty orchestra’ in Japanese) is based on Americana that the Japanese liked from late night show host Mitch Miller where audiences watching at home could sing-along with the host that eventually made its way to Kobe night clubs. Just because Filipinos like it too doesn’t mean they get to claim it as their invention

[@BlackAxe-ti7tj]

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