Protest, Art, and Ecologies of Crisis
Brown Bag Series 05
Presented by the UPCFA Department of Theory and the UP Fine Arts Gallery
with
Lisa Ito-Tapang
Assistant Professor, Department of Theory
College of Fine Arts
This Brown Bag discussion charts one’s journey as an art history researcher and cultural worker, engaging with histories of creative practice from burning puppets to botanical illustrations. Relating these to traditions of Social Realism affirming the liberative impulse (Guillermo 167) to weighing the future of transformation and revolutionary continuum (Flores 67-68), the talk reflects on art practice and cultural work amid contemporary crises. Introducing the gallery’s exhibition response to Labor Day last May 1, it is a pause amid much activity to reflect: because the ecological is intensely political and the political, immensely ecological.
Asst. Prof. Lisa Ito-Tapang is a cultural worker and writer. She currently serves as the curator of the UP Fine Arts Gallery (Parola) since August 2023. She teaches art history, theory, and criticism at the Department of Theory, UP College of Fine Arts. She is the Secretary-General of the Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), founded in 1983.
Presented by the UP Fine Arts Gallery and the UPCFA Department of Theory, the Brown Bag Series is a monthly talk over lunch break, open to the public and the UP community. It presents various topics, representing how we stand within configurations and confluences across the Philippine arts and culture community.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Limited seating
For bookings, register at bit.ly/ParolaVisitorsForm or email us at cfagallery.upd@up.edu.ph
🗓️ May 15, 2024 (Wednesday). 12:00 NN – 1:00 PM
📍 Conference Room, Arts and Design West Hall
See you!
