5th Annual
Art Dialogue in the Pilipinx Diaspora
A convening of local and international Pilipinx Artists, Funders, and Cultural Workers exploring urgent issues of sustainability, cultural transmission, building upon traditional practices, and innovation and hybridity in the arts.
Batok: The Art of Indigenous Body Markings
May 8, 2020
6:00 - 9:00 PM
A comprehensive lecture and dialogue about batok with
master mambabatok, Lane Wilcken
Manong Lane Wilcken is a scholar, cultural tattoo practitioner and advocate for the critically endangered practice of "batok" or cultural tattoos of the Philippines. He also has studied other related indigenous traditions of the Philippines and greater Pacific with nearly three decades of research and experience. His mother is from the Philippines and his father is of English and Scandinavian descent. Lane is the author of "Filipino Tattoos Ancient to Modern" -and- "The Forgotten Children of Maui." He is also a contributing writer to "Back from the Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory" and "Shamanic Transformations: True Stories of the Moment of Awakening," as well as several articles for various magazines and journals.