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Latipa is a Pilipinx (Maguindanao/Pangasinan) artist, filmmaker, writer, and Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.  Her interdisciplinary praxis works toward community healing and empowerment through radical media forms and memory work.  For the past twenty-five years she has developed large-scale media installations, experimental documentary films, artist's books, expanded cinema performances, boundary-crossing writing, and intergenerational popular education initiatives.  Latipa's ongoing political education grows out of a deep commitment to seeking relation and living across difference so that vibrant languages of memory and transformation may be seeded and nurtured for the past, present, and future.  She is the founder of the Memory and Resistance Laboratory, a collective initiative to evolve accountable, nurturing, and politically uncompromising media practice across all stages of development, production, postproduction, and distribution. She is also the co-founder of the Communities of Memory publishing imprint which offers a platform for community organizers and engaged artists to share their work in book form. 

Latipa's recent projects include The Archive's Fold, a multi-image slide installation that posits the possibility of ancestral healing by reading the violence of the US colonial archive through past and future ancestors, and White Gaze (with Việt Lê), an artist's book and photographic installation that poses a decolonial counterpoint to National Geographic and its legacy of imperialist visuality.  Latipa has lectured and exhibited across the Americas, Europe, and Asia in significant cultural and educational institutions such as the Center for Feminist Studies in Zagreb, Croatia, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK, SalaSab, Bogota, Colombia, Caixaforum, Barcelona, Spain, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, The Cooper Union, NYC, NY, Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, and the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden. Latipa gave the keynote address for the 2019 Singapore Biennale on the legacy of Filipina revolutionary Salud Algabre.  Latipa has received grants from the University of California Humanities Research, the Human Rights Center, Art Matters, the Fulbright Foundation.  She was award a 2017-18 Master Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles and she was a Mellon Arts Fellow at Stanford's Center for Comparative in Studies Race and Ethnicity. Latipa earned an MFA in Art with a specialization in Interdisciplinary Studio from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric with designated emphases in Film and Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. 

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