“The exhibition ‘Dissident Vicinities’ responds to moments— lived or archived—in the histories of people’s movements for liberation and rights in the Philippines. It reflects on the questions: How are people’s struggles visualised within various localities and spheres? How do social movements, in turn, contribute to the visual culture of collective resistance? The exhibition touches on […]
As contemporary performance aesthetics gear more and more toward the (re)presentation of the performance process as crucial, if not, central to the totality of the performance experience – from Brecht to Boal, to Bourriard to Ranciere – Con.Currents attempts to interrogate as well as capture the flow and transformation of ideas, bodies and narratives through […]
The Constantino Murals were created ten years ago in collaboration with TutoK, an artists’ group that, before disbanding, explored the language of dissent in the visual realm. Commissioned to commemorate the execution of heroes Macario Sakay and Lean Alejandro, the Constantino Foundation requested TutoK to paint the heroes not as extraordinary beings towering above their people but […]
From its institution in the Philippines, the discipline of anthropology participated in shaping colonial policy and engaged the public specifically in the conceptualization of the ‘peoples of the Philippines’, shaping the way we define ourselves (the nation, distinct ethnicities) and ‘others’. The proposed exhibit presents a timeline of 100 years of Philippine anthropology, and also […]
The exhibition titled “Resurfacing” showcases a selection of the three dimensional images of the victims of state enforced disappearances in the country from the 1970’s until the present. The works featured are hollow-cast frozen sculptures depicting victims representing each sector of society. The exhibition is the culminating creative requirement of Mr. Jose Manuel “Manolo” Sicat […]
Four artists from the U.P. Master of Fine Arts program in their FA 211 class critically explore and analyze their own art practice by producing ekphrastic artworks in their show entitled Stopover. Stopover is defined as a stop at an intermediate point in one’s journey and this exhibit emphasizes each artists’ unique perspective as they […]
This MFA exhibit revolves around the notion that animals have been used as bisual metaphors for commentary of society’s ills. From the European Medieval Beastiaries, or bound text featuring stories teaching morality to the modern political cartoons of utilizing animal figures to liken either the brazen to the problematic, this MFA study aims to produce […]
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