Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Atienza, Jake. 2024. “Not Deadly Enough? The Erasure of Lived Experiences as the Epistemological Violence of Mining in Cebu, Philippines.” Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific Hors Série XXVII:53-92. Retrieved from https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/law/research/publications/about-nzacl/publications/special-issues/hors-serie-volume-xxvii-2024/6-atienza.pdf
Atienza, Jake. 2022. “An Island for Sale: Bantayan, Philippines.” Pp. 246–49 in Climates. Habitats. Environments, edited by U. M. Bauer. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Atienza, Jake. 2021. What About the Youth? Situating Young People in Agriculture. Manila: Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas.
Digital Humanities
Atienza, Jake. 2024. “Etched into the Landscape: Fieldwork Report on Mining in Cebu, Philippines”. Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Availble at: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/philippine-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/84/2024/11/Atienza-Fieldwork-report.pdf
Atienza, Jake. 2022. Part 2: Bantayan Island, Cebu (Philippines). Claiming/Making. Available at: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/acd08b85b1b84ea39689cf26014e2520
Atienza, Jake. 2021. Part 1: Darlington, Sydney (Australia). Claiming/Making. Available at: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5ece01a6bd064341a5b6003b9ba74f19
Talks & Conferences
"Epistemological Turns: Legal Interpretation as Mining Violence in Cebu, Philippines." Apr 28, 2025. Beyond Natural Resource Governance: An Interdisciplinary Framing of Extractivism in the Philippines. 13th International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR) Asia-Pacific Regional Conference. Cebu, Philippines.
"Epistemological Markers of Place-based Encounters: Mining in Cebu, Philippines." Mar 23-25, 2025. Knowing Place: Violence as Epistemological and Temporal Encounters. Association of American Geographers (AAG). Detroit, USA.
“Not Deadly Enough? The Erasure of Lived Experiences as the Epistemological Violence of Mining in Cebu, Philippines.” Nov 19, 2024. World Philosophy Day. Visayas State University (VSU). Leyte, Philippines.
“Epistemological Excavations: Enduring Fixed Boundaries of Knowledge as Mining Violence in Cebu.” Sept 21, 2024. The Common Places of Our Lives: Hulagway Conversation Series. In Other Words Incorporated and the Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos, Talamban. Cebu, Philippines. Available at: https://fb.watch/uYr8ORAEb3/?mibextid=cr9u03
"Written Out of the Narrative: Knowledge Production as Mining Violence in the Cebuano Bureaucracy". March 8, 2024. Heo/Geo Lecture Series 2024. Department of Geography at the University of the Philippines-Diliman and the Philippine Geographical Society. Quezon City, Philippines. Available at: https://updgeography.blogspot.com/2024/03/heogeo-lecture-series-2024-03-jake.html
OCEAN / UNI Pacific Resistance. February 28, 2024. Session 3: Indigenous Ocean Knowledges. TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Available at: https://tba21.org/oceanunipacificresistance
Silencing and Hearings on Mining in Cebu. Nov 2023. Public lecture series, Center for Philippine Studies. University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Honolulu, Hawai'i. Available at: https://youtu.be/JPyxnHGsfys?si=P0gKiKJR3N4FWzso
Bantayan Island: An Island in Transition. Dec 2022. Climate Futures #1: Cultures, Climate Crisis and Disappearing Ecologies. ASEAN Foundation. Jakarta, Indonesia.
Bantayan Island: An Island in Transition. Nov 2022. Sea Change Symposium: Transformative Currents for Art and Action in the Pacific OceanOrange County Museum of Art. Oceanside, USA.
Language Politics in the Cebuano Judiciary. Jul 2022. Project Magsayod 2022 – Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program. University of Hawai’i at Mānoa/University of San Carlos. Cebu City, Philippines.
Documenting the Invisible: Mining as a Process of Institutional Violence. Apr 2022. School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) 2022 Graduate Student Conference. University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Honolulu, Hawai'i.
Talk Story: Inundation. Mar 2021. Live Aloha Arts Festival. Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa, Hawai'i.
The Extractive Industry as a Perpetuation of Colonialism’s Transformational Power. Feb 2020. Public Event, Research Program. East-West Center. Honolulu, Hawai'i. Available at: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/events/the-extractive-industry-perpetuation-colonialism%E2%80%99s-transformational-power
Liquid Futures Round Table. Apr 2019. International Graduate Certificate Program. East-West Center. Honolulu, Hawai'i.
Art as an Investigative and Documentary Practice. Nov 2018. Climate Change Department. Government of the Kingdom of Tonga. Nuku'alofa., Kingdom of Tonga.
Art as an Investigative and Documentary Practice. Oct 2018. John Perkins Memorial Lecture. 'Atenisi Institute. Nuku'alofa., Kingdom of Tonga.
The Nature of Intervention. Sep 2018. Rara Books Livraria & Café. Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining Island Life. Jul 2017. Critical Forum. Toi Pōneke Arts Centre. Wellington, Aotearoa.
Re-Imaging and Re-Imagining Island Life. Jan 2016. Darwin Community Arts. Darwin, Australia.
Selected Articles & Radio Features
Anon. 2018a. “Viva: The future of part-time work.” Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Australia. accessed June 3, 2021, https://www.audible.com/pd/Viva-The-future-of-part-time-work-Podcast/B08PY89LMH?ref=a_pd_SBS-Vi_c1_lAsin_5_3
Anon. 2018b. “Viva: Finding meaning through song-writing.” Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Australia. accessed June 3, 2021, https://www.audible.com/pd/Viva-Finding-meaning-through-song-writing-Podcast/B08PK5WK22?ref=a_pd_SBS-Vi_c1_lAsin_5_7
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “From the Womb.” Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Filipino. accessed June 3, 2021, https://www.sbs.com.au/language/filipino/en/podcast-episode/creating-space-for-asian-australian-art-and-artists/tzjvtxtg6
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “Curating the Filipino: The ‘Bayanihan Philippine Art Project’. ” Art Monthly Australasia. accessed June 3, 2021, https://www.artmonthly.org.au/blog/philippines
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “In the Shadows of History. ” Runway Journal. accessed June 3, 2021, https://runway.org.au/this-here-land-liveworks/
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “Australia Legalizes Same Sex Marriage. ” Asia Calling on Kantor Berita Radio (KBR). accessed June 3, 2021, https://kbr.id/english/12-2017/australia_legalizes_same_sex_marriage/93909.html
Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/asiacallingeditor/episodes/2017-12-07T22_53_31-08_00
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “Aboriginal activist walks 6000 kilometres for justice.” Asia Calling on Kantor Berita Radio (KBR). accessed June 3, 2021, https://kbr.id/english/10-2017/aboriginal_activist_walks_6000_kilometres_for_justice/92918.html
Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/asiacallingeditor/episodes/2017-10-12T22_35_51-07_00
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “Indigenous Australians demand recognition and participation.” Asia Calling on Kantor Berita Radio (KBR). accessed June 3, 2021, https://kbr.id/english/09-2017/indigenous_australians_demand_recognition_and_participation/92129.html
Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/asiacallingeditor/episodes/2017-08-31T22_26_14-07_00
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “Coal mines and climate change: Australia's Adani controversy.” Asia Calling on Kantor Berita Radio (KBR). accessed June 3, 2021, https://kbr.id/english/08-2017/coal_mines_and_climate_change__australia_s_adani_controversy/91710.html
Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/asiacallingeditor/episodes/2017-08-10T22_53_52-07_00
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “Sydney protest against Australia’s boycott of nuclear ban.” Asia Calling on Kantor Berita Radio (KBR). accessed June 3, 2021, https://kbr.id/english/06-2017/sydney_protest_against_australia_s_boycott_of_nuclear_ban/90828.html
Podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/asiacallingeditor/episodes/2017-06-23T00_02_43-07_00
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “Marikit Santiago’s Layering of Cultures. ” Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Filipino. accessed June 3, 2021, https://www.sbs.com.au/language/filipino/en/podcast-episode/marikit-santiagos-layering-of-cultures/k2ckk4d0m
Atienza, Jake. 2017. “Art in a changing world. ” Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Filipino. accessed June 3, 2021, https://www.sbs.com.au/language/filipino/en/podcast-episode/art-in-a-changing-world/ibb33ay77
Atienza, Jake. 2016. “Creating Space for Asian Australian Art and Artists. ” Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Filipino. accessed June 3, 2021, https://www.sbs.com.au/language/filipino/en/podcast-episode/creating-space-for-asian-australian-art-and-artists/tzjvtxtg6
Selected Interviews
Atienza, Jake. 2020. “Dr. Arnisson Andre C. Ortega on the Problem of Gentrification on Islands.” Claiming/Making. Available at: https://vimeo.com/772933405
Atienza, Jake. 2017a. “Dr. Jackie Huggins: ‘This Is a White Man’s Document’.” Kantor Berita Radio (KBR). Available at: https://vimeo.com/834195283
Atienza, Jake. 2017b. “Marikit Santiago’s Layering of Cultures.” Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Australia. Available at: https://vimeo.com/218875377?share=copy
Atienza, Jake. 2016a. “Musician and Farmer Chris Orr: ‘The Soil Is Just Cracked.’” Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Australia. Available at: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5650996/video/197677933
Atienza, Jake. 2016c. “‘Our Island Life Has Changed’, an Interview with Crystal Love.” Our Islands. Available at: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5671811/video/180414069
Atienza, Jake. 2016b. “Yason Banal’s ‘Untitled Sunset.’” Northside Radio 99.3. Available at: https://vimeo.com/188785524?share=copy
Projects
2020-2022, Claiming / Making
Vinyl on Vinyl, 2022
Qube Gallery, 2021
2019-2020, Fauna / Flora
2016-2017, Harvest
Hobienale 2019, 2017
Parkshire Library, 2017
55 Sydenham Rd, 2017
Re-Imagining and Re-Imaging Island Life 2015-2016
Firstdraft, 2019
Darwin Community Art Center, 2016