Curing Amnesia

Artist Statement

"Curing Amnesia is part of my ongoing process of remembering, releasing, and healing. In Curing Amnesia, we remember how the education and economic systems were used by the United States to maintain power over the “uncivilized” Philippines during the period of the Philippine-American War. It reminds us how the United States continues to use these systems to maintain power over other countries and the people who reside on the stolen land that is the United States.

Though we’ve inherited traumas and continue to experience the atrocity of US imperialism, Curing Amnesia also reminds us of our inherited ancestral knowledge and strength as healers and warriors. We take that knowledge and strength, and we breathe, we look to the oceans and the skies, we look to our ancestors and each other, to remember, to release, to heal, to fight for liberation.

Quote sources:

“The Filipino’s Bugaboo.” Judge, Judge Company, New York, August 5, 1899.

Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and Stephen Elkins to President McKinley printed in the Boston Evening Transcript, 1898."

Kim Boral (she/her)

Kim Boral is a movement scientist, experience producer, and artist. She was born and raised in Oxnard, CA and is now based in the Bay Area, working as a project and policy analyst for the University of California. Since graduating in 2009 from UC Irvine with a B.S. in chemistry, Kim has dedicated her work to supporting students and using art and food as a means for development, education, achieving justice, and telling our stories. She co-founded the Rooted Recipes Project in 2018, a collective using food and shared stories to move towards a liberated future. Previous work and events with the Rooted Recipes Project include Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s United States of Asian America Festival and AAWAA’s Agrarianaa exhibition.