Ethos Bathos Pathos

Thursday, February 12
at 4:00pm

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

Featuring photographer Tommy Hafalla, sculptor Junyee, composer Jonas Baes and autonomous groups: Onsite Infoshop, Etnikobandido, Marindukanon Studies Center at Info Shop Marinduque, overXout and Civ Lab. Presented by Project Bakawan and Planting Rice with the support of The Japan Foundation, Manila.

Ethos, Bathos, Pathos shows the idea of interconnectivity in the maintenance of ecological sustenance: comprising singular entities that affect the larger whole.

The exhibition will also include a public program of avant-garde music performances. Concerts composed by ethnomusicologist and writer, Dr. Jonas Baes performed by musicians from the UP College of Music and invited guests every Thursdays of February 12,19,26 and March 5 from 4pm to 5pm.

Daily to weekly workshops in reference to ecological transition hosted by autonomous collectives, with artists, activists, specialists and researchers will take place within the exhibition run. Workshops will include the use of radio for disaster relief, upcycling in design, ecology and socio-economic theory discussions, food politics, alternative energy, creative resistance and more. Ethos Bathos Pathos was inspired by a text made by Marian Pastor Roces that reflects on the condition of contemporary art and discusses activisms and the process of decolonization in the Philippines.

The exhibit is part of the Project Bakawan, a collaborative art festival that seeks to establish a network of art practitioners, academics, students, and community organizations in order to secure a sustainable future against the current ecological and global crisis.

Image Credit: Tommy Haffala, Documenting the lives of the Cordillera people.