The creation of artistic form fundamentally is a production of space. Distinct from space as a certain physical actuality, space here is considered as something that can be artistically constructed out of traditional visual art media, objects, sites, measures, time-based and durational means, concepts, psycho and socio-physical interaction, ritual, virtual, and broadcast technologies. Art production […]
Jose Tence Ruiz’s LangueLounge: Forgetory is a site-specific installation that is a meditation on the cult of glib and overwhelming information over truth. LangueLounge works with image and meaning in relation to contemporary life and society. High backed chairs lined with red velvet is related to the image of high and honorable status, of luxury […]
Taking from the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child”, Cesar Legaspi’s, second exhibition for his centennial series hinges on how forms of community including but also beyond family and home make the production of art possible. Called A Man and His Relations, the exhibition takes place in Legaspi’s alma mater on […]
“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 […]
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