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Flaudette May V. Datuin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines (UP) and co-founding editor of Ctrl+P - http://www.ctrlp-artjournal.org, a Contemporary Arts Journal launched in 2006 with information about contemporary art and culture in the Philippines and internationally. Their mission is to utilize Copyleft and for readers to distribute the journal for free to as many people as possible. Since the journal is online, they feel they can publish at any time, when they have collected enough substantial essays they upload the issue for ready publication. In 2007, they were invited by the Documenta 12 magazines project in Kassel Germany.
She is also the author of Home Body Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts, 19th Century to the Present published by the University of the Philippines Press, 2002. a book based on her PhD dissertation at the same university. Her most recent and still ongoing project is
trauma, interrupted (http://www.trauma-interrupted.org),
"a multi-pronged project composed of a series of workshops, an international exhibition and artist talks aiming to explore the link between trauma, art and healing."
It was launched through an exhibition held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in June 2007.