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How versatile artist Caroline Garcia deals with issues on race and culture

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Dealing with issues on race and feminism is hard enough on its own. But what about adding one competitive profession to it? Performance maker Caroline Garcia have these hurdles on her hands. Image: Caroline Garcia wearing indigenous necklace and headdress from the Philippines, in her performance for the Tropical Hypeisms (Dexter Cornelius/PACT Centre for Emerging Artists)


She uses a light-hearted approach in her artworks - like live performances and videos of hybrid aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, new media, and the sampling of popular culture and colonial imagery - to deal with issues of culture, race, feminism and women of color as well as a platform for her creativity and deal with her own issues of identity.

Caroline Garcia uses a 'malong' from Mindanao in once of her performances
Source: Dexter Cornelius/PACT Centre for Emerging Artists

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