Artists presenting their works:

Kawayan De Guia 
Chris Yniguez 
Mark Zero 
Shant Verdun
Tengal

Artist talks about their current works-in-progress, do a bit of informal chit-chat on art practice / theory and meet and greet. Tengal will be performing his Live cinema project, "Treatment for Film in 9 Scenes" then a couple of performances from both Baguio and Manila artists, and Mark Zero, be spinning til the dance floor gets flooded by sweat!


SCHEDULE: 

7:00 PM: Artist Talk
9:00 PM: Treatment for Film in 9 Scenes 
9:30-10:30PM: Performances by Chris Yniguez and Shant Verdun
10:30PM-Forever: DJ Sets by Mark Zero and DJ-TBanger



Performance info: 

Treatment for Film in 9 Scenes (live performance)

Sampled footages from various movies, videos from youtube, and the internet, are taken out of their original context and placed into a meta-narrative of what may seem to be a series of unrelated fragments juxtaposed to create a new movie. The performance investigates the possibilities of creating new forms of narratives amidst an overload of sensory experience. Sounds, like field recordings, Foley sound effects, and electronic noise, are transformed further away from their original sounds and often never correlate to the images seen on screen. To counter the chaos, the audience is invited to close their eyes during the performance, while two different sound cues are played for them. Upon hearing the sound cue, the audience is invited to open their eyes to follow either one of the two parallel narratives that can be found in the rapid flow of data stream. The work is at first a deep investigation on listening, then the combination of listening and viewing.

“Treatment for Film” is an experiment on finding a balance in ambiguity and specificity, where the mind’s activity of reading or deriving meaning from signs, can help create individualized cinematic narratives with the images and sounds they perceive. The perception of order produces pleasure.

“Treatment for Film” is literally “performed cinema”, where it makes the usual passive audience into an active participant of the movie making process.


Artist profiles:

KAWAYAN Thor Kalayaan DE GUIA (born 1979) is an artist who focuses on line drawings, performance art, and installations. He is the second of the three children of Filipino independent filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and German stained-glass artist Katrin De Guia. He finished his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines. Incubator won him the 2008 Ateneo Arts Awards, which eventually earned him the 1st New York Arts Project residency grant in 2009. He was among the 30 artist recipients selected from over 900 applicants from 69 countries. In 2009, De Guia held two exhibitions, Ice Cold Happiness in Beijing, China, and the Baguio jeepney-jukebox project Katas ng Pilipinas for the Cultural Center of the Philippines's The Thirteen Artists Awards. Most recently he concluded and exhibition at Fete dela WSK!, festival for sonic art, and at MO space gallery in a group show with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan. 

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TENGAL is a Manila-based curator, composer, and media artist involved in interactive media, sonic arts, moving image (cinema and beyond), networking cultures, and curatorial and research-based production towards the imminent intersections of art and technology.

He has shown his work and collaborative exchanges in Paris, Copenhagen, Brussels, Jakarta, Slovenia and other places. His work puts the focus on direct experience, risk-taking and personal interaction between artists and audience, and emphasises the situational potential of live performance, the interplay of various media – sound and image, in particular – and candid exchange between sub-cultural and academic initiatives. 

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CHRIS YNIGUEZ
Artist based in Los Angeles. <Short Bio To Follow.>

Minister MARK ZERO aka Joseph Insect is a collector of strange sounds, unpopular & underated music from across the globe. He got into record collecting 15 years ago while he discovered an abandoned pile of old maps, childrens books & a bunch of old african latin & Filipino Library broadcast records; (one of them is from the late great national artist Dr. Jose Maceda) on a basement of his grandfathers ancestral house were he once use to smoke & read poems. He used to run a now defunkt record shop somewhere in manila called ‘Zero History’. Now djing, doing sound design & sharing wonderful sounds in various different clubs, galleries, fashion shows, & performances all over the metro all the way to Baguio city where he is currently based; as well as doing collaborative work, and running the annual magical music gathering called EXPANSIONS with his mate caliph8. 

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SHANT VERDUN 
<Short Bio to Follow>


BedroomLab functions as an informal art platform, wherein open discussions, brainstorming sessions, lectures, network meetings, performances, hands-on workshops, demonstrations and public gatherings take place. 

bedroomLab is a new program facilitated by SABAW Media Art Kitchen, a not-for-profit organization whose primary interests lie in curatorial and research-based production towards the imminent intersections of art and technology; as well as networking cultures from information and communication carried via modern electronic media.


Organized by SABAW Media Art Kitchen with EXPANSIONS Manila and AXIS Art Collective.



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