Curating-In-Depth 2: Curatorial mapping, symposium, discussions in Manila

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July 28 – August 7
Various Venues
Manila, Philippines

 

Contesting the contemporary: A Southeast Asian reading group Friday, July 31 at 10:00am - 11:30am 3 hours ago Show Map Lopez Museum and Library G/F Benpres Bldg. Exchange Road Corner Meralco Avenue, Ortigas Center, 1600 Pasig Invited by Planting Rice One of the three auxillary events of curating in depth, is a Southeast Asian Reading Group at the Lopez Museum and Library this Friday, July 31, 10am-11:30am! Can you smell the coffee? Contesting the contemporary: A Southeast Asian reading group with Simon Soon (Kuala Lumpur, Ambitious Alignments/ Southeast of Now), Kyo Pathomvat (Bangkok, The Reading Room), Renan Laru-An (Manila, DiscLab.) An intimate discussion moderated by Lian Ladia & Sidd Perez of Planting Rice (Manila), The Lopez Museum & Library. Friday, July 31, 2015, 10-11:30am. Using the Lopez Museum & Library archive, as well as the generative text archive compiled from the Articles of Disagreements Cafe, and the researchers own references, the discussion will revolve around compiling historical references and text influential within each's curator practice within the region (Malaysia, Thailand, Manila and the greater Southeast Asia). Contesting the Contemporary is a reading laboratory focused on looking critically at the linear narrative histories of modernity/ rehistoricization. Southeast Asian curators and researchers will share influential SEA text on their practice sourced from the Library of the Lopez Museum, critically looking at linear historical models of modernity. The program is organized by Planting Rice in the event of Curating-in-Depth 2, a symposium from August 3-7 in cooperation with Asia-Europe Foundation and Lasalle St. Benilde School of Design and the Arts. Limited seats available! to register email Tina at lmmpasig@gmail.com. Image Credit: Kiri Dalena, Erased slogan sourced from the Lopez Library Archives.

Contesting the contemporary: A Southeast Asian reading group

Friday, July 31
at 10:00am – 11:30am
Lopez Museum and Library
G/F Benpres Bldg. Exchange Road Corner Meralco Avenue, Ortigas Center, 1600 Pasig

 

One of the three auxillary events of curating in depth, is a Southeast Asian Reading Group at the Lopez Museum and Library this Friday, July 31, 10am-11:30am! Can you smell the coffee?

Contesting the contemporary: A Southeast Asian reading group with Simon Soon (Kuala Lumpur, Ambitious Alignments/ Southeast of Now), Kyo Pathomvat (Bangkok, The Reading Room), Renan Laru-An (Manila, DiscLab.) An intimate discussion moderated by Lian Ladia & Sidd Perez of Planting Rice (Manila), The Lopez Museum & Library. Friday, July 31, 2015, 10-11:30am.

Using the Lopez Museum & Library archive, as well as the generative text archive compiled from the Articles of Disagreements Cafe, and the researchers own references, the discussion will revolve around compiling historical references and text influential within each’s curator practice within the region (Malaysia, Thailand, Manila and the greater Southeast Asia).

Contesting the Contemporary is a reading laboratory focused on looking critically at the linear narrative histories of modernity/ rehistoricization. Southeast Asian curators and researchers will share influential SEA text on their practice sourced from the Library of the Lopez Museum, critically looking at linear historical models of modernity.

The program is organized by Planting Rice in the event of Curating-in-Depth 2, a symposium from August 3-7 in cooperation with Asia-Europe Foundation and Lasalle St. Benilde School of Design and the Arts.

Limited seats available! to register email Tina at lmmpasig@gmail.com.

Image Credit: Kiri Dalena, Erased slogan sourced from the Lopez Library Archives.

 

Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1617939245151523

 

Saturday, August 1 Planting Rice is proud to present a progam with curator and activist Antares Gomez Bartolome organized by Concerned Artists of the Philippines on the relevance and critique of distribution and platforms of contemporary art in the Philippines, If Art Is a Hammer, a roundtable at artist-run space, ARTERY, August 1, Saturday 3pm! Event information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/322270607896929/ Starting from a brief discussion by Neil Doloricon on the rising influence of art fairs and auctions, the talk will move on to consider different platforms such as gallery and museum exhibitions, the press, the streets, and other sites of distribution. This latter part of the talk will include art practitioners with experience in varied platforms and formats such as Mark Justiniani, a member of the Abay artists’ group in the Martial Law years, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez of curatorial platform Back to Square 1, Leo Abaya whose experience includes work in cinema and theater, Duffie Osental, editor-in-chief of Art+ magazine, and Randy Nobleza of Marindukanon Studies Center and Info Shop & Radyo Itim, a pirate radio collective. The sharing with our resource persons will be followed by an open discussion regarding areas for research and analysis as well as possible interventions or courses of action. Results of these consultations shall go towards updating CAP’s situationer on the state of Philippine art and culture. The Silip Sining Roundtable talks are part of CAP’s Culture | Art | Politics discussion series, a long-term research and educational initiative aiming to build a comprehensive view of the state of Philippine art and culture. The series started last March with short presentations by CAP members on the impacts of globalization on Philippine culture and creative industries and various case studies on the issue of artists’ rights and welfare. If Art is a hammer, a roundtable is organized by the Concerned Artists of the Philippines in coop

If Art is a hammer

Planting Rice is proud to present a progam with curator and activist Antares Gomez Bartolome organized by Concerned Artists of the Philippines on the relevance and critique of distribution and platforms of contemporary art in the Philippines, If Art Is a Hammer, a roundtable at artist-run space, ARTERY, August 1, Saturday 3pm!

Event information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/322270607896929/

Starting from a brief discussion by Neil Doloricon on the rising influence of art fairs and auctions, the talk will move on to consider different platforms such as gallery and museum exhibitions, the press, the streets, and other sites of distribution. This latter part of the talk will include art practitioners with experience in varied platforms and formats such as Mark Justiniani, a member of the Abay artists’ group in the Martial Law years, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez of curatorial platform Back to Square 1, Leo Abaya whose experience includes work in cinema and theater, Duffie Osental, editor-in-chief of Art+ magazine, and Randy Nobleza of Marindukanon Studies Center and Info Shop & Radyo Itim, a pirate radio collective.

The sharing with our resource persons will be followed by an open discussion regarding areas for research and analysis as well as possible interventions or courses of action. Results of these consultations shall go towards updating CAP’s situationer on the state of Philippine art and culture.

The Silip Sining Roundtable talks are part of CAP’s Culture | Art | Politics discussion series, a long-term research and educational initiative aiming to build a comprehensive view of the state of Philippine art and culture. The series started last March with short presentations by CAP members on the impacts of globalization on Philippine culture and creative industries and various case studies on the issue of artists’ rights and welfare.

If Art is a hammer, a roundtable is organized by the Concerned Artists of the Philippines in cooperation with Planting Rice and Artery Art Space in the event of Curating-in-Depth 2, a symposium from August 3-7 in cooperation with Asia-Europe Foundation.

 

CONTESTING THE CONTEMPORARY

Symposium on art/curatorial practices and discourse in Slovenia, Croatia, Southeast Asia and the Philippines

The event is free and there is limited seating! to REGISTER, EMAIL: CURATINGINDEPTH@GMAIL.COM!

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*** Symposium Day 1 ***

3 August | Monday | 1-4.30PM
Blackbox
6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde
2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004

 

Rehistoricization: Criticality in linear art histories/

1PM /// Antonija Letinić (Croatia), What is The Future of Criticism?
1.30PM /// Renan Laru-an (Philippines), Being Subtracted From
2.30PM /// Lian Ladia (Philippines), Anachronism of Southeast Asian Modernism: Raden Saleh.
3PM /// Simon Soon (Malaysia), Bodies that Matter – Art and the Cultural Left
3.30PM /// Q&A

 

*** Symposium Day 2 ***

4 August Tuesday | 1-5PM
Blackbox
6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde
2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004

 

Alternative organizational infrastructures/

1PM /// Dušan Dovč (Slovenia), The same word different meaning: a brief introduction to the cultural art production in Slovenia.
1.30PM /// Angel Velasco Shaw (Philippines/USA), Markets of Resistance: Baguio/Manila.
2PM /// Miha Kelemina (Slovenia), The Liminale, modes of working, production and networking.
3PM /// Kyo Pathomvat (Thailand)
3.30PM /// Simona Žvanut (Slovenia), World of Arts, School for Critics and Curators of Contemporary Art.
4PM /// Q&A

 

*** Symposium Day 3 ***

5 August Wednesday | 1-6PM
Blackbox
6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde
2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004

 

1PM /// Barbara Borčić (Slovenia), Video As a Tool and Strategy of Artistic Expression. Selected Examples From DIVA Station Archival Practices in Video.
3PM /// Ricky Orellana (Philippines), The Mowelfund Audio-Visual Archive. Talk and Selected Examples from the Archive.
17.30 Q & A

Planting Rice and SCCA Center for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, with Asia-Europe Foundation and local partner De La Salle De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde with support from Lopez Museum and Library, will be presenting the second part of CURATING-IN-DEPTH in Manila from 28 July – 7 August 2015.

Participants from Slovenia/Croatia, Southeast Asia come together to discuss and present artistic and curatorial practices that contests the contemporary in critical non-linear art histories, alternative organizational infrastructures through a series of events and discussions. There will also be a talk on the issue of archiving in video and experimental cinema. An experimental video and film screening from the archives of SCCA Ljubljana and Mowelfund FIlm Institute will also be presented.

 

Curating-In-Depth 2: Curatorial mapping, symposium, discussions in Manila August 3 - August 7 Aug 3 at 1:00pm to Aug 7 at 6:00pm Show Map De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde 2544 Taft Avenue, 1004 Manila, Philippines CONTESTING THE CONTEMPORARY Symposium on art/curatorial practices and discourse in Slovenia, Croatia, Southeast Asia and the Philippines The event is free and there is limited seating! to REGISTER, EMAIL: CURATINGINDEPTH@GMAIL.COM! *** Symposium Day 1 *** 3 August | Monday | 1-4.30PM Venue Blackbox, 6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde 2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004 Rehistoricization: Criticality in linear art histories/ 1PM /// Antonija Letinić (Croatia), What is The Future of Criticism? 1.30PM /// Renan Laru-an (Philippines), Being Subtracted From 2.30PM /// Lian Ladia (Philippines), Anachronism of Southeast Asian Modernism: Raden Saleh. 3PM /// Simon Soon (Malaysia), Bodies that Matter - Art and the Cultural Left 3.30PM /// Q&A *** Symposium Day 2 *** 4 August Tuesday | 1-5PM Venue Blackbox, 6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde 2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004 Alternative organizational infrastructures/ 1PM /// Dušan Dovč (Slovenia), The same word different meaning: a brief introduction to the cultural art production in Slovenia. 1.30PM /// Angel Velasco Shaw (Philippines/USA), Markets of Resistance: Baguio/Manila. 2PM /// Miha Kelemina (Slovenia), The Liminale, modes of working, production and networking. 3PM /// Kyo Pathomvat (Thailand) 3.30PM /// Simona Žvanut (Slovenia), World of Arts, School for Critics and Curators of Contemporary Art. 4PM /// Q&A *** Symposium Day 3 *** 5 August Wednesday | 1-6PM Venue Blackbox, 6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde 2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004 1PM /// Barbara Borčić (Slovenia), Video As a Tool and Strategy of Artistic Expression. Selected Examples From DIVA Station A

 

Auxiliary programs for opportunities for further discussion and engagement are:

 

1 August, Saturday | 3-7PM
Artery Art Space
Cubao, Quezon Citty
/// Roundtable, If Art is a Hammer, organized by Concerned Artists of the Philippines///

With Neil Doloricon, Renan Ortiz, and Antares Bartolome (Concerned Artists of the Philippines), Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez (Pananaw Sining Bayan, Back to Square 1), Mark Justiniani (Visual Artist), Duffie Osental (Art+), Leo Abaya (U.P. Fine Arts), Randy Nobleza (Marindukanon Studies Center and Info Shop.)
https://www.facebook.com/events/322270607896929/

 

2 August, Sunday | 3-5PM
98B Escolta
Manila
/// Southeast Asian Reading group, reference of critical text, moderated by Thea Garing of the Lopez Museum & Library///

Sidd Perez, Lian Ladia (Planting Rice, Manila), Renan Laru-An (Disclab, Manila) Angel Velasco Shaw (Markets of Resistance, Manila), Simon Soon (Researcher/Historian, Kuala Lumpur), Arlette Tran (Curator, Sanart, Saigon)

 

John Torres, A Film Retrospective August 6 - August 7 Aug 6 at 1:00pm to Aug 7 at 6:00pm Benilde SDA Cinema Invited by Planting Rice One of the most poetic filmmakers in Philippine underground cinema - John Torres screens a 2-day retrospective at Benilde Cinema, School of Design & Arts, Manila on August 6&7 1-6pm. A conversation with filmmaker John Torres and Arist/Curator Merv Espina follows on August 7 at 5pm. The screenings for August 6 and 7 are free and there are limited seats available. If you have not registered at our gmail address, please RSVP at http://peatix.com/event/105958/view Film Screening Day 1 6 August Thursday Benilde SDA Cinema 13.00 Short Films Program Tawidgutom (2004) Salat (2004) Hai, They Recycle Heartbreaks in Tokyo So Nothing’s Wasted (2009) Very Specific Things At Night (2009) We Don’t Care For Democracy, This Is What We Want: Love And Hope And Its Many Faces (2010) Silent Film (2011) Muse (2011) Mapang-Akit (2011) 15.00 Todo Todo Teros (2008) 17.00 Years When I Was A Child Outside (2008) Film Screening Day 2 7 August Friday Benilde SDA Cinema 13.00 Refrains Happen Like A Revolution In A Song (2011) 15.00 Lukas The Strange (2013) 17-18.00 Talk/Conversation with John Torres and Merv Espina. The film screening is an annex program of curating-in-depth 2, a program co-presented by Planting Rice with the generous support of La Salle - St. Benilde and Asia-Europe Foundation from August 3-7 at Benilde, SDA.

6 – 7 August |
Benilde SDA Cinema
School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde
2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004

 

John Torres, A Film Retrospective

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Curating-In-Depth is supported in the fourth edition of Creative Encounters: Cultural Partnerships between Asia and Europe programmed by Asia Europe Foundation with its partners Arts Network Asia and Trans Europe Halle. It is an incubator project aimed towards the development of curatorial exchange brought together mainly by two non-governmental institutions in Slovenia and the Philippines, namely SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana and Planting Rice. Curating-In-Depth conducts this exchange through immersive programs in both the cultural communities of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Manila, Philippines from May to August 2015 and aims to sustain these initial engagements through a shared network platform and e-publication of materials produced and referenced in the project.

 

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