Curatorial Development Workshop 2020 Public Program
Zoom and Facebook Webinar
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
9:30 AM – 11:15 AM (PHT)
The Japan Foundation, Manila
An Online Talk for the Curatorial Development Workshop series presented by The Japan Foundation, Manila (JFM), the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN), and the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum.
The Public Talk will have speakers Kamiya Yukie (Gallery Director, Japan Society, New York), Chuong-Dai Vo (Researcher, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong), and Taufik Darwis (Co-Founder, Bandung Performing Arts Forum, Bandung), as they share their insights on art and curation in their respective practice in these challenging times.
The Online Talk is free and open to all.
This Workshop*, spearheaded by Patrick Flores, working together with other members of PCAN, Tessa Maria Guazon, Renan Laru-an, and Roberto Paulino, is the sixth in the series since 2009 and seeks to reflect on the relationship between the social context of the public health crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and the kind of curatorial mode responsive to the ecology of production. This production has been disrupted because of the restrictions on basic mobility; domestic and international travel; physical interaction; and general everyday activity. This situation, coupled with uncertainty and unpredictability, has affected the economic and emotional well-being of everyone all over the world and rendered daily life and the imagination of the future precarious, even as various forms of violence have in the same breath heightened. The Workshop is to speak to this context: to explain and propose ways of understanding the complex and delicate condition and to translate these strategies into a curatorial mode or instinct.
SPEAKERS:
Kamiya Yukie has been the Gallery Director of Japan Society, New York since 2015. Formerly, Kamiya was Chief Curator of Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima MoCA) and Associate Curator of New Museum, New York. She has curated numbers of exhibitions internationally and co-curated ProRegress, the 12th Shanghai Biennial, China (2018-19). She also served as guest curator for cultural institutions including the Japan Foundation and Goethe Institute, and curated group exhibitions including Discordant Harmony: Critical Reflection of Imagination of Asia (toured to Seoul, Hiroshima, Taipei and Beijing, 2015-2018), Re:Quest Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s (Museum of Art, Seoul National University, 2013) and others. In 2011, Kamiya received the Academic Prize from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo for her curatorial achievement in Simon Starling: Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima).
Chuong-Dai Vo is a Researcher at Asia Art Archive, specializing in modern and contemporary art related to Southeast Asia. She is supervising the acquisition of three archival collections: Lee Wen, Green Papaya Art Projects, and Manila Artist-Run Spaces. Additionally she is researching the construction of multiple modernisms through arts pedagogy, arts writing, and exhibition-making in Vietnam, 1925-1975. Her writing can be found in publications such as Afterall, Sismographie des luttes, Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s Modern Quarterly, and the anthology Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia. Her research has been supported by Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Mellon Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Fulbright Program, University of California Pacific Rim Research Program, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
Taufik Darwis is a dramaturg, curator, researcher and theater director, and lives in Bandung, Indonesia. He is the co-founder of the Bandung Performing Arts Forum – BPAF and a member of the Dramaturgi Assembly. With BPAF he produces programs and projects that are carried out in the ethos of shifting, exchanging and disclosing by involving different subjects-communities and locations. As curator, he has worked for the Kampana program, Indonesian Dance Festival (2016-2018), and the Cabaret Chairil program, Teater Garasi / Garasi Performance Institute (2018-2019). He has also been involved in several meetings, the Dramaturgi and New Dramaturgi Workshop (Art Summit Indonesia, 2016); The Curators Academy, Theaterworks (Singapore, 2018), Asia Dramaturg’s Network (TPAM Yokohama and Yogyakarta, 2018); the Next Generation Producing Performing Arts 2018, Asia Center (2018). Taufik also has a research residency in the Visiting Fellows 2019, The Saison Foundation. His latest project “Toward an Ordinary Day” was selected as part of the ‘Art + Activism’ project funded by the Center for Applied Human Rights, University of York.
* The workshop on October 23-24 will only be open to invited participants.
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