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This multimedia video performance is about the exploration of race, gender and sexuality, drawn from my own experience as a gay, assimilated, Filipino immigrant male. The video is a social commentary on several socially constructed concepts that have profoundly affected me throughout my life.
No Daddy also investigates how popular media plays a prominent role in modern society in influencing and subjugating social and individual consciousness, particularly my own. I also simultaneously presented a solo performance, to suggest how the body, in this case my body, in response to the video
became a living example of how race, gender, class, sexuality, and religion are embodied in our daily routine as a performative act. As a gay, ethnic, immigrant, male, visual, video and performance artist myself, it empowers me to illustrate how my sexualized and the racialized body can become a s
ite for the articulation of and resistance to racial and gender ideologies. In creating work that documents my biography, it celebrates and validates "our" existence and addresses the current lack of representational images of queers of color on screen, particularly Filipinos. With this project, I
have used the tool of oppressive media and transformed it into a liberating vehicle against this discrimination. Since I have experienced societal prejudices from my family and from society, for both being gay and Filipino, I personally feel responsible and have the privilege that I am a living, val
idated example that "we" can contribute to social change for the betterment of humanity. For example, at eighteen I emancipated myself and I remembered a time in my life when this white man proceeded to harass me in public and yelled, "Hey! You! Burn in hell you little Asian faggot! Go back to your
country because all you bring here is AIDS!" As I stood there in shock, looking for signs of validity in the eyes of the many who witnessed my injustice, no one spoke a word in my defense. Not only did I learn to monitor and protect myself from society and family for being a homosexual, but also for
being an immigrant. My postmodernist approach of reworking available material from popular culture in addition to my own original work gives me a powerful weapon in the struggle for empowerment, while providing opportunities to use strategies of appropriation as an assault against racism, sexism,
and homophobia. P.S. In the part where Destiny's child's Independent Women the words project onto the screen, the words are a blurry. It is a copy of a letter from my high school counselor notifying my instructors of my situation. It reads: Please be advised that Jean Pilas has been living independ
ent of his mother since he turned 18. He is responsible for all of his finances. I hope that you can give him every understanding, as he needs financial aid to attend college after graduation in June. Dated: February 26, 1999. THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.

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