Trade and Upcycling Workshop with overXout

Thursday, February 19
at 1:00pm – 3:00pm

UP Vargas Museum
Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Roxas Avenue, UP Campus, 1101 Quezon City, Philippines

overXout collaborates with artists Miguel Puyat, Indy Paredes and Roman James Soleño for “Trade and Upcycling Workshop”, presented by common space/ swarm bibliotheque, a component of the exhibiiton Ethos, Bathos Pathos at the UP Vargas Museum. The exhibition is part of Project Bakawan and is supported by the Japan Foundation. The workshop is free and open to the public and will be held outdoors, at the porch of the UP Jorge Vargas Musum.

The skill sharing event will focus on utilizing and transforming objects that are considered trash by households.

Participants must bring basic trade materials like old things from their own collections, functional objects and works that may be considered utilitarian, ready for trading (displayable artworks may be included with the sole value of trading purposes). Trade materials may also be gathered from other people who wants to participate and will be displayed at the infoshop and are subject to money-less trade to keep the cycle going.

Objects can also be posted here and in other social networks and are up-for-grabs, open for barter or for trade only.

Participants (artists and non-artists) will also create objects on the spot to resourcefully re-manipulate its use. In this way the goal of upcycling can be demonstrated not only on the day of the event, the purpose is for its advocacy to be properly demonstrated.

Viewers are also welcome to share their experiences and ideas on re-utilizing and upcycling objects.

overXout is a sculpture and concept for a collapsible infoshop, library and community center with the goal of researching the direct relationship of contemporary art to cultural transformation. It is an ongoing project on design, economic sustainability of programmes, workshops for rehabilitiation, ecological transformation, mobility infrastructures and the contribution of artists working on the contemporary realm in directly taking part to foster cultural transformation for the self and for the community within the Asian/Southeast Asian context. overXout is a project of artist England Hidalgo. http://overxout.blogspot.nl/