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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | 5 PM (GMT +8:00)
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Philippine Arts in Venice Biennale – PAVB
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The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, through the PAVB, presents the excerpts from the David Medalla Performances in Venice. These 2015 performances were collateral activities of the Philippine Pavilion exhibition Tie A String Around the World curated by Patrick D. Flores.
We will have a live broadcast of the conversation between noted curator and art historian Patrick Flores and Petty Benitez Johannot, a scholar of David Medalla’s works, as they discuss the performances of the seminal artist and worldmaker.
We will also be posting the videos on our website infocus.philartsvenicebiennale.org/ and Youtube page bit.ly/3m78Gno #veniceartbiennale #philippinepavilion
David Medalla (b. 1938, Manila) is an important figure in the kinetic, participatory, and earth art movements in the 1960s and 1970s in the United Kingdom and the Philippines. Before pursuing creative practices in the visual arts, he was a poet. In 1954, he attended the George Jonas Foundation’s Camp Rising Sun for gifted young writers in New York; and, upon the recommendation of American poet Mark van Doren, attended Columbia University as a scholar in modern drama, history of philosophy, and classical literature. With critic, historian ad literature professor Petronilo Daroy and poets Epifanio San Juan and Jun Lansang, he co-founded the literary journal Prufrock in 1958. He left Manila for France in 1960, in an attempt to retrace the life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud to whom he was spiritedly drawn.
