2008 VIVA (Visayan Islands Visual Artists) Exhibit-Conference
"Mugnang Halad" Art Raffle and Exhibit
The Organizers of the 2008 VIVA (Visayan Islands Visual Artists) Exhibit-Conference in Cebu together with its artist’s friends from the Visayas and the rest of the country have initiated a fund-raising campaign to help subsidize the delegates and activities of the longest running exhibit conference in the country. With “Mugnang-Halad” an art raffle and exhibit, art works will be raffled off for the price of PhP3,000.00 per ticket. This is your chance to start or enhance your contemporary art collection and support the continuing education of artists through the VIVA Ex-Con.
THE VIVA EX-CON BACKGROUND
For the last twenty years and now the longest running visual arts exhibit-conference in the country, the Visayan Islands Visual Artists (VIVA) bi-annual meet brings together professional and non-professional visual artists from all over the Visayas as a showcase of Visayan visual art conducted in the capacity of a formal continuing education program. The conference also addresses the strengthening of linkages within the islands, discuss directions and strategies for the whole Visayas arts scene, tackle issues confronting visual artists in the region and discuss trends on going global and venturing to broader realms in art. VIVA Conferences also features artistic workshops on various art-making techniques in relation to various materials and processes as a means of expanding individual artist’s skills and technical know-how.
VIVA Exhibit-Conference (Ex-Con) is held every two years at a venue which rotates among all the regional Visayan centers which have reached or have been reached by the VIVA Executive Committee. The leadership of the VIVAA (the association) also rotates among its members. The first VIVA Ex-Con was held in Mambucal, Bacolod City in 1990 and has since been held in Bacolod City (1992), Dumaguete City (1994), Iloilo City (1996), Cebu City (1998), Tacloban City, Leyte (2000), Tagbilaran City, Bohol (2002), Bacolod City (2004), and Calbayog City, Samar (2006).
THE VIVA SIGNIFICANCE
The spirit of the VIVA Ex-Con has always been the individual expressions and visions of Visual artists from all over the Visayas. This unique bi-annual gathering promotes Visayan art and aesthetics to the rest of the country and to the world.
The VIVA Conference benefits professional and non-professional artists as a continuing education program through the various forums, lectures and creative workshops. It is likewise advantageous to community cultural workers, the academe, and the participating students of art and design. The VIVA makes aware to its delegates realistic issues concerning art and culture in the different islands of the Visayas region.
The VIVA Ex-Con 10 shall in a whole provide a venue for the discussion, production, and reflection of alternative art praxis striving to compete in a globally competitive market informed by the daily struggles of the artist and the community in the 21st century. VIVA is truly a unique activity that addresses the needs of the artists and their important role in the community.
This year’s VIVA EX-CON-X is made possible by the National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA), Pusod, Inc. and in partnerships with SM City Cebu, Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort, the University of the Philippines Cebu College, the University of San Carlos – College of Architecture and Fine Arts, Pow! Designs, and the City Government of Cebu.
THE PROPONENT ORGANIZATION
PUSOD, Inc. was formally launched in December 1997 with just then 27members signing on as founding members. The members initially came from the school-based UP Cebu Fine Arts Program. It was named “pusod”, a Visayan word for navel, to symbolize the geographical location of the group. With Cebu being located at the center of the country’s geography, the name was nothing more but fitting.
From the onset of the first VIVA in 1990, a sizeable delegation of students and alumni of UP Cebu Fine Arts has provided the bulk from Central Visayas in the succeeding biennials. This long experience with VIVA Ex-Cons, the realization that a single local organization hosting the VIVA Ex-Con-5 in 1998 in Cebu City was the more workable arrangement, coupled with the realization of the need for an organization promoting alternative/indigenous yet technologically sophisticated art making in the Central Visayas, were compelling factors that informed the organization of PUSOD.
The organization is open to all practicing and student artists, as well as artists in allied fields who are willing to contribute to the formation of an artistic praxis that will deal with cultural or artistic production in depth and in the face of techno-cultural flux. We believe that in this new century the artistic challenges facing artists in their communities call for a response that is democratically collective as well as intensely personal finding full and mature expression in free and voluntary organizations such as PUSOD.
The coming into being of PUSOD is itself an achievement. It has successfully organized and liquidated the assets of VIVA Ex-Con 5 in 1998, organized Central Visayas Exhibits of the NCCA-CVA like “MILINYUM” in 1999, partnered with PHILAJAMES-Cebu (Association of Former Mombusho Scholars to Japan) for a group exhibition at the Waterfront Hotel in 2001 are among the activities the organization has accomplished. PUSOD continues to come up with activities that will lead to providing artists who are inclined to non-traditional art making with a forum and venue for the introduction, popularization and celebration of their expression and ultimately their vision.
"MUGNANG-HALAD" RAFFLE MECHANICS
The art works to be raffled will be exhibited at the Art Center, 2nd Level of SM City Cebu from October 24-November 6, 2008.
To join simply purchase a single raffle ticket worth P3, 000.00. You can buy your raffle tickets at Kukuk’s Nest Restaurant or from any Pusod, Inc. officers.
There are six (6) sets of prizes (art works) to be won. One set is composed of six art works pre-chosen by the organizers.
A drawn raffle ticket is entitled to win 1 set of art works only from any of the six (6) draws.
Relatives of the Organizers up to the third degree of consanguinity are disqualified from the raffle.
Winning sets may not be returned or exchanged to the Organizing Committee for other art works in other sets. However, a holder of a winning raffle ticket may negotiate a trade or barter of art works from other holders of winning raffle tickets provided they do not involve the Organizing Committee in the transaction.
Winning set(s) of art works not claimed within 60 days from the raffle date will automatically become the property of Pusod Inc. The organizers will have absolute authority to dispose of the works however they see fit.
The six raffle draws will be on November 7, 2008 starting at 6 o’clock in the evening at the Conference Hall “D” of SM City Cebu.
Proceeds of the raffle will benefit the delegates and activities of the Visayas Islands Visual Artist Exhibit-Conference (VIVA Ex-Con) in Cebu.
A 10% commission will be given to any individual or group that can sell/purchase twenty five tickets in bulk.
Deadline for the submission/return of unsold tickets to the Organizers must be made within November 4, 2008.
For more ticket information, email us at pusod_inc@yahoo.com or call the VIVA Secretariat at 09173295626.
The Raffle Draw Sets:
Set A – Pandy Aviado, Javy Villacin, Jet Florendo, Adeste Deguilmo, Estela Ocampo-Fernandez, Boy Kiamko
Set B –Eghai Roxas, Ross Capili, Kimsoy Yap, Karl Roque, Boy Kiamko, Radel Paredes
Set C – Charlie Co, Andrew Barba, Gabriel Abellana, Evan Bejec, Benjie Goyha, Tito Cuevas
Set D – Nune Alvarado, Red Mansueto, Raymund Fernandez, Celso Pepito, Boy Kiamko, Joshua Cabrera
Set E – PG Zoluaga, Sio Montera, Caesar Velez, Jun Impas, Lucilo Sagayno, Jethro Estimo
Set F – Egai Fernandez, Dennis Ascalon, George Lao, Ritchie Quijano, Ramon De Dios, Palmy Tudtud
Exhibit Date: November 27-29, 2008
Venue: Art Center
SM City, Cebu
Garbo Sa Bisaya November 29, 2008 Bluewaters Gallery
