If Art Is a Hammer

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 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.