"France Face Lost: by Marc Lathuilliere

Alliance Francaise de Manille (AFM) presents

"France Face Lost" by Marc Lathuilliere
February 02 - February 25, 2010

Marc Lathuilliere's exhibition entitled "France Face Lost" deals with French identity. It is the questioning of a visual artist looking at his homeland as if it wasn't. As if he was a tourist from fast moving Asia discovering the clichés and strangeness of a sleeping beauty named France.

Marc Lathuilliere first experienced this swing in perception in 2004, after extended stays in Asia, mostly in Thailand and South Korea. Coming back home, he realized how deeply French identity is anchored in the past, and the tremendous efforts French People devote to the preservation of its heritage. Through his "asianized" eyes, France now seemed estranged: he started to observe it with both wonder and worry.

To express these mixed feelings, he asked the French he met all over the country to wear a mask, always the same one, and then he took a portrait of them. An interactive game that froze them, shedding a new and doubtful light on their daily surroundings-architecture, sceneries, furniture… - , questioning the stereotypes on which we build our identities.

In five years, from Provence to Normandy, and from Bordeaux to Metz, more than four hundred people have already let him take their "de-faced" portrait.

Marc Lathuillière’s exhibition of photographs ‘’France Face Lost’’ opens at the Alliance Française Total Gallery on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, with cocktails at 6:30 pm. It will be on exhibit until February 25, 2010.

Gallery days and hours:
Monday to Thursday, 9am to 6pm; Friday, 9am to 2pm; Saturday, 9am to 5pm; 
Closed on Sundays and Holidays.

Marc Lathuillière will hold a workshop at Silverlens Gallery on January 30 and February 6 followed by an artist’s talk to introduce his work and artistic approach. For more information about the workshop and the artist talk please contact Silverlens Gallery at 816 0044 or email Leonore Casuga at manage@silverlensphoto.com.

For high resolution images of the artworks and more details about the exhibit, kindly contact Mr. Stéphane Doutrelant (AFM Director) or Ms Sabrina Durand (Cultural Officer) at 895 7441 / 895 7585 or email sabrina@alliance.ph. You may visit the AFM website at www.alliance.ph or the artist’s site at www.lathuilliere.com.

This exhibition is organized with the support of the Embassy of France to the Philippines and Silverlens Gallery.

Silverlens Gallery is located at 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 7pm. For further information, please contact Cathy Paras-Lara at 816 0044 or communications@silverlensphoto.com, or visit www.silverlensphoto.com.

The Midnight Lullaby

Silverlens Gallery proudly presents The Midnight Lullaby, a solo exhibit at SLab's 20Square Gallery by Luis Lorenzana named after the largest exhibition piece included in the show.

"This particular work is larger in scale, which means that I really needed the time to finish it. I turned down solo exhibit offers from galleries abroad in the process, explaining to them that I owe my beloved country this exhibit," says Lorenzana.

Seen largely as a preview to a grander solo show in September 2010, The Midnight Lullaby combines the artist's technical application of the play between light and shadow, while staying true to his pop art, animation and surreal imagery influences.

"I'm fascinated with clowns - so deep, tragic, mysterious, and alone. So many different emotions can be expressed just by using a clown's face."

The Midnight Lullaby opens at 6 pm on Friday, December 11, 2009, and runs until January 09 at SLab's 20Square Gallery.

The Midnight Lullaby will be shown alongside Singapore International Photography Festival at Silverlens Gallery and Indivisibilis by Gary-Ross Pastrana at SLab.
For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0917-5874011, or manage@silverlensphoto.com.

Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1-6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com / slab.silverlensphoto.com.

TutoK SOeNA: State of Education and the Nation 4th TutoK yearend assembly

MANILA CONTEMPORARY and TUTOK
cordially invite you to the reception of the exhibition:

TutoK SOeNA: State of Education and the Nation
4th TutoK yearend assembly

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Amidst a year stricken by crises in culture and calamities, a so-called 'educated' response is called for over and above the sensationalism promoted by media and politicking entities. Yet it would seem that every problem that we have traces its roots to education, particularly citing its imbalances, inequities and inadequacies.

TutoK, in line with its implementation of art and advocacy projects, proposes to bring the topic of education into this engagement, thus gathering a visual congress to represent and assert a diverse range of contemporary explorations to promote further inquiry and discussion.

SOeNA is the State of Education and the Nation, and it is TutoK's yearend assembly of art and artists to be held at Manila Contemporary at Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City . SOeNA is part of of TutoK's current focus on education, beginning with TutoK Eduk early this year. At the core of this exhibit is a series of works investigating the manifestation and operation of education as systems, objects and people. The theme is resonated through 2 x 2 feet wall works assembled throughout the gallery, completing the participation of more than 150 artists via paintings, sculptures, installations and live art.

"TutoK SOeNA" is the 4th annual group exhibit organized by TutoK since 2006. It is jointly curated by Don M. Salubayba, Noel Soler Cuizon, J.Pacena II and Jef Carnay, and will open with live art and other performances at 6:30pm on Saturday, December 5, 2009. The exhibit will run until January 6, 2010.

Manila Contemporary is located at
Whitespace, 2314 Chino Roces Ave.
Pasong Tamo Extension, Brgy. Magallanes, Makati City

RSVP Fatima 02 8447328 | manilacontemporary1@gmail.com

Static reverb

J. Pacena II's is back with Static Reverb. Here his progressive explorations of multimedia assemblages that pits figuration against a combination of manual and digital manipulations. What Pacena achieves with these combines effectually interfaces the organic with the graphic, submitting the detachment and the stability of surfaces to a flux of gesture and expression.

The potency of multimedia practice is generally measured and exploited by its very ability to present and convey. It is medium and means; and even in the realms of the gallery, its tools are mostly installed as galleries within. As professional practitioner and educator of multimedia arts, Pacena’s scrutiny forges ahead of its proffered frames and platforms. In Static Reverb, what he plumbs are its intrinsic bits and rhythms, and through this, offers to us a vista of human perplexities.

To his mind, J. Pacena refers to ‘static’ as stills and clips, where image is captured in the inevitable stasis of its established vacuum. To disturb this stillness produces as well, a distinct static; like the interference of electrical fields in the broadcast of audio and visuals. Likewise, ‘reverb’ refers to reverberations, such as the phenomenon of echoed sounds perceived in enclosed spaces. These are, hence, the filters through which Pacena stages his social provocation: whether in action or inaction, what we do, what we say; what goes inside us and what we emit-- everything has effect and influence amongst our connections and environs.

In the realms of music, media and the visual arts, J. Pacena II enjoys a flourishing career as artist and teacher, and as videographer and photographer. He is a curator and convener of various collaborative art projects independently and with TutoK, as member of its core group. Static Reverb is his 5th solo exhibition.

The exhibit opens on Monday 6PM, November 16, 2009 at Blanc Gallery Makati. Blanc is located at Crown Tower, 107 H.V. dela Costa St., Salcedo Village, Makati City. For more information, please call or sms 752-0032 / 0920-9276436, email info@blanc.ph or visit www.blanc.ph, www.blancartspace.multiply.com

Static Reverb will run until December 2, 2009 and is co-produced by slash/art artists’ initiatives.

ROCKBATO MANOY DATU'S TRIBE TOYO @ CONSPIRACY

Rock Bato, Manoy and Datu's Tribe live at the Conspiracy Cafe on December 1, 2009. Show starts at 9:00 PM. Don't miss it! Conspiracy Cafe is at 59 Visayas Avenue Quezon City

ITIM ASU 1719-2009 (a dance & multi media production based on the drama of Virginia R. Moreno)

ITIM ASU 1719-2009
(a dance & multi media production based on the drama of Virginia R. Moreno)

Nov. 26-28, 2009, 8pm
Dance Forum Space
36E West Avenue, QC

Direction and choreography by Myra Beltran
Video by Sherad Anthony Sanchez
Music design by Teresa Barrozo

Featuring
U.P. Dance Company with Marielle Alonzo and Reagan Cornelio

Contemporary dance artist Myra Beltran collaborates with video artist Sherad Anthony Sanchez and sound designer Teresa Barrozo to choreograph a contemporary version of Virginia Moreno’s "The Onyx Wolf / Itim Asu,” which was first staged in the 1970’s to critical acclaim.

This contemporary dance piece combines video, dance and music / sound art to render this significant drama into a contemporary language. History is a creative act, and all reconstructions are of course, constructions. Returning to the past means bringing back its presents– in dance, images and song. This is Itim Asu 1719-2009.

The production is ably assisted by Ruelo Lozendo as assistance video director, Albert Banzon for cinematography, Carlo Valderrama for costume design, and Don Salubayba for graphic design.

Presented by Myra Beltran’s Dance Forum with friends and collaborators with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. For info, please call 0921-278-7333 or email thelemoncircle@yahoo.com, log on to: www.mbeltrandanceforum.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6aTSsmOU0s

MIHA HORVAT ART TALK + DRINKS
5PM November 28 (Saturday)

Maybe we are fools to insist on the necessity of intercultural exchange, because differences are inherently there and a mere three-week stay in another creative milieu will never be enough. What is achieved is but a glimpse into the actual reality that one would like to penetrate. Still this is no reason not to be curious, or aimlessly wander around, or eat exotic fertilized duck egg, or forge relationships over bottles of bad-tasting beer, or criticize undercurrent motivations, or even finding silly arbitrary commonness. Slovenian artist-curator Miha Horvat has been in town for three weeks now, lurking and surfing, and taking down notes. To kick start, Philippines-Slovenia Tactical Exchange before kindred Lena Cobangbang heads off to an Eastern European winter, we are organizing another live art talk show on Saturday at Green Papaya to exchange notes, back room talk and even discontentments. Like any good excuse, this but another hefty gathering to give Miha that long overdue welcome drink.

Philippines Slovenia Tactical Exchange is a means to its own end: to activate and initiate intensive creative cultural interaction, critical exchange and networking activities between the two artistic communities. Meanwhile drawing attention to the dis/similar socio-historical and geopolitical contexts that shape contemporary practice in these two far away regions. Artist-curators Lena Cobangbang (Philippines) and Miha Horvat (Slovenia) have been respectively chosen to undergo creative research-residency in the said locales in view of sharing ‘best practice’ experiences, identify undercurrent motivations, initiate critical engagement, deepen networks of cooperation, read each other, and dream of utopic tactical artistic actions. Of course because we are all for sustainable cultural communities and long-term management strategies their residencies are meant to hit all birds with one stone, by default mapping out alternative cultural management strategies and methods. In effect putting into perspective how independently run initiatives have managed throughout the last years to influence local cultural production and politics.

sct.blogs.culture360.org/2009/10/09/a-means-to-its-end/
Philippines Slovenia Tactical Exchange is supported under the Asia Europe Independent Creative Art Spaces Follow-up Grant.

GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS
41 T. Gener Street (corner Kamuning Rd.), Quezon City Phone/Fax 7941628 or 09266639626

Pulse Miami 2009

PULSE Miami 2009

December 3 - December 6, 2009

Entering its fifth season, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair will move to Miami's Ice Palace this December with an expanded presentation of international galleries and programming. After a successful run at PULSE NY in the Spring, this Fall, the Philippines will be represented at PULSE Miami by Silverlens Gallery’s artists, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Hanna Pettyjohn, Rachel Rillo, and Steve Tirona.

Pastrana will be showing his acrylic on paper collage series Set V GAME, as well as the last paper collage set, the first of which are currently on show at the Singapore Art Museum’s Philippine show Thrice Upon a Time. Rillo has her Houses, photographs that bounce between meaning and material. Joining the group is Pettyjohn’s large-scale paintings of a time of alienation and self-discovery in The American Sweet. Rounding the stellar selection are Steve Tirona’s Imelda Collection, which have shown famously in Manila, Hong Kong, New York, and are making their debut in Miami at PULSE.

A highlight of the new PULSE venue is its enhanced platform for their signature programming series, including the launch of a new performance program featuring daily outdoor concerts. PULSE Miami will be held on Thursday, December 3 through Sunday, December 6, 2009. The fair will run concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach.

The Miami debut of PULSE Performance will feature daily performances and concerts by young emerging artists such as Maria Jose Arjona, whose performances will be among the highlights of the new programming. The Vivian Girls, The Blow, and Exene Cervenka are some of the more notable musical talents in the outdoor concert and performance series.

Additionally, PULSE will present its signature program of large-scale sculptures and installations throughout the fair's exhibition halls and lawn, as well as the PULSE Play> video lounge curated by João Ribas.

Each year, one artist featured in IMPULSE, the section of the fair dedicated to solo artist presentations, is awarded a $2,500 cash prize. This year's PULSE Prize will be awarded in honor of Adriaan van der Have, Founder and Director of Torch Gallery, who was an inspiring force in the art world for his dedication to the promotion of emerging artists. The winner will be announced Friday, December 4, 2009 during the PULSE Party at PLUNGE at the Gansevoort South.

PULSE Miami 2009 Exhibitor List

55, Shanghai; Angell Gallery, Toronto; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York; Baró Cruz, São Paulo; Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt; Bitforms Gallery NYC, New York; Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Florence; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; BravinLee Programs, New York; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Conner Contemporary Art, Washington; Conrads, Duesseldorf; Davidson Contemporary, New York; DCKT Contemporary, New York; Dean Project, New York; EDS Galeria, Mexico City; Espacio Contemporary, New York; Dean Project, New York; EDS Galeria, Mexico City; Espacio Liquido, Gijon; Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Vienna; Rosamund Felsen, Santa Monica; Fred, London; FTC. Berlin, Berlin; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; Guidi & Schoen Arte Contemporanea, Genova; Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London; Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica; Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, New York; Pippy Houldsworth, London; Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus; La Industria, San Juan; Gallery Joe, Philadelphia; Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong; Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY; GalerieKleindienst, Leipzig; Kopeikin Gallery, West Hollywood; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland; Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque; Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami; Lyons Wier Gallery, New York; M+B, Los Angeles; Maior Pollença, Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca; Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco; MasART Galería, Barcelona; Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York; Nina Menocal, Mexico City; Mkgalerie Rotterdam; Berlin; Yossi Milo Gallery, New York; Mixed Greens, New York; Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica; Morgan Lehman, New York; Nieves Fernández, Madrid; One and J. Gallery, Seoul; Open Gallery, London; Pierre François Ouellette Art Contemporain Inc., Montréal; P·P·O·W Gallery, New York; PDX Contemporary Art, Portland; Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padua; Galeria Raquel Ponce, Madrid; Emmanuel Post, Leipzig; Postmasters, New York; Max Protetch, New York; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin; Galerie Jean Luc & Takako Richard, Paris; Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; Galerie Roemerapotheke, Zurich; Galerie Stefan Roepke, Cologne, Madrid; Julie Saul Gallery, New York; Schroeder Romero, New York; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago; Galeria SENDA - Espai 2NOU2, Barcelona; Siemens_artLab, Vienna; Sienese Shredder Editions, New York; Silverlens Gallery, Manila; Charlie Smith London, London; Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco; Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul; Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York; Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg; Torch, Amsterdam; Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York; Von Lintel Gallery, New York; Rick Wester Fine Art, New York; Winkleman Gallery, New York; Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, New York; Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York; Galerie Nordine Zidoun, Luxembourg, Paris; Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York; Zürcher, New York, Paris.

For more information on PULSE Miami, please visit http://www.pulse-art.com.

Image: Steve Tirona, Imelda Collection 5, 2006

KIMI IMIK First solo exhibition by Iggy Rodriguez

KIMI IMIK
First solo exhibition by Iggy Rodriguez
November 10-30, 2009
Blanc Compound Mandaluyong
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RAOUL IGNACIO "Iggy" RODRIGUEZ unveils his first solo exhibit of paintings and drawings at Blanc Compound Mandaluyong this November. KIMI IMIK is a palindrome, not only of letters but inevitably, of human conditions where the shifts between docile submission and the stirrings of reaction or even of resistance are placed in mutual confrontation. Within this space between reflections and deflections is the void where Rodriguez stages his metaphors. KIMI IMIK is a play on dreadful, as well as fantastic possibilities, which nonetheless belie its guttural call for resolution.


Iggy Rodriguez was named by the Cultural Center of the Philippines as Thirteen Artists Awardee in 2009. His art studies began as an advertising major at UST College of Architecture and Fine Arts. Known for his pen-and-ink drawings and the collaborative street art he undertakes with the artists' collective UGATLahi, Rodriguez crafts his imagings from his own milieu and calling as community organizer and activist. He is also a core member of TutoK.

The exhibit opens on Tuesday 6PM, November 10 at Blanc Compound Mandaluyong. Blanc is located at 359 Shaw Boulevard Interior, Addition Hills, Mandaluyong City. For more information, please call or sms 752-0032 / 0920-9276436, email info@blanc.ph or visit www.blanc.ph and www.blancartspace.multiply.com



KIMI IMIK will run until November 30, 2009 and is co-produced by slash/art artists’ initiatives.

Animahenasyon 2009

Animahenasyon 2009 opens in November

The biggest Philippine animation event of the year is on!

The Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. (ACPI) is holding its 3rd Animahenasyon Pinoy animation festival on November 25-28 at the Gateway Mall, Araneta Center.

In an effort to build an audience, awareness and development of original contents, ACPI puts together its flagship project through an annual animation festival called Animahenasyon that showcases original animated works of both aspiring and professional animators in the country through a competition.

Animahenasyon serves as a venue for Filipino animators to present their world-class ideas, and opens doors of opportunities for them to meet with and be inspired by the finest names in the industry. It also aims to create greater awareness of the Philippine animation industry and its contributions to the global entertainment business, while tapping locally produced content for promotion in animation markets here and abroad.

The festival is composed of the professional and the student/amateur divisions that will have different running time categories: 1 to 5 minutes; 6 to 20 minutes, 21 to 60 minutes, and the full-animated feature (more than 60 minutes). There are also categories for music video, title sequence, public information, demo reel, and TV series. There will also be animated works in exhibition (full-length, special citation, and past Animahenasyon winners).

Last year’s grand prize winner of Animahenasyon was Love and Marriage, a jab at the folly of racial prejudice in marriage, as seen through the eyes of its Chinese-Filipino filmmaker Kenny Lyn Tai. Love and Marriage is a narrative musical cartoon that relates the story of Chinese-Filipino interracial marriage, and a comic take on this long-standing issue in the Chinese society captured in 7.5 minutes. Tai graduated from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde with a degree in Multimedia Arts, and is now a freelance animator.

This year’s Animahenasyon will also have a symposium on learning and teaching animation, entrepreneurship in animation, and the future of the game development industry in the Philippines. Resource persons from Canada and France will be sharing their expertise, best practices, and insights on the global animation industry.

Also part of Animahenasyon 2009 is an exhibit of the life and works of this year’s lifetime achievement awardee Jose Zabala Santos, uncle of renowned artist Nonoy Marcelo.

Take part in

Animahenasyon 2009: 3rd Pinoy Animation Festival

from November 25-28, 2009, at the Gateway Mall, Araneta Center, Grab your tickets now and get ready to be animated!
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Opening ceremony: by invitation

Gallery exhibit: Open to the public (Free admission)

Closing ceremony: Open to the public (Free admission)

PhP 80.00, closing film: PhP 110.00

Symposium 1 & 2: PhP 530.00 each

Symposium 3: PhP 850.00 (a.m. & p.m. snacks included)

*Program and topics may change without prior notice.

**Tickets are available at all TicketNet outlets located at the SM department store customer service area and at the Araneta Coliseum ticket booths. For inquiries and reservations, please call 911-5555 or visit www.ticketnet.com.ph .

For more information about Animahenasyon 2009, please call 483-9501, 8172727 local 108 or email the secretariat at animationcouncil@gmail.com, or visit www.animationcouncil.org.

AWARDS PARTY of Muziklaban Indie Film Challenge 2009

AWARDS PARTY of Muziklaban Indie Film Challenge 2009
November 27, 2009. 7:00pm to 1:00am
Nomnomnom ground, GYY Bldg. 1 Tomas Morato St cor E. Rodriguez
Ticket at P100 with 3 Red Horse Beer

Watch the pre- selected entries of The Legend of the Happy Horse.

Watch The Brockas - they will be playing a live soundtrack of "MONDOBROCKA," a 20-minute mash-up silent-shortfilm sneak-peek version of the 25th feature film of Khavn De La Cruz, "MONDOMANILA: or, How I Fixed My Hair After A Rather Long Journey", an adaptation of the triple Palanca awardee for screenplay, shortstory, & novel, which will be released next year.

A Celebration Party with various bands :
Mayonnaise
Kadangyan
Tac 4
Even
Radio Active Sago
Kjwan
The Brockas
and DJ Quality of Cosmic Love

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE ENTRY
Bring Red Horse Crowns for voting.
Voting will start at 4:00pm and cut off will be at 7:00pm
Cut off for ticket votes will be at 9:00pm

Know the winners of the Muziklaban Indie Film Challenge 2009 -- See you there!

Earthdance at the Maharlika Festival!

You are invited to a celebration of Arts, Music, Dance & Deep Ecology…

Join us as we rise up to a new world. Celebrate the revival of our ‘bayanihan’ spirit, also known as healthy social synergy.Let this be our offering and invitation to inspire global ‘bayanihan’, a humanity-wide synergy of efforts to address the climate crisis and conserve the Earth.As One global family, we can.

Joined by our shared vision of Peace, Unity and Humanitarian aims.

PROGRAM INCLUDES

Interfaith Opening Prayers۞ Inner and Outer Dance ۞ Nature Mandala & Labyrinth

Bon Fire ۞ Organic Drumming Circles ۞ Live Musical Performances

DJ Sets ۞ World Music ۞ Jamming ۞ Visual Arts Exhibit with National Artists

Indigenous Storytelling Through Music & Dance ۞ Meditation, Tai Chi & Yoga

Interactive Art Wall ۞ Art Installations ۞ Film Screenings

۞ Launching of a Green Agenda Manifesto for the Philippines ۞

DETAILED PROGRAMME SCHEDULE http://earthdancemanila.multiply.com/journal/item/5

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176746548111

Booths available for green movement & causes, culture, arts & crafts, healthy food & drinks, organics,

natural wellness, workshops and native massage

· AUCTION BOOTH for anyone who wants to unload art for a cause (silent auction)

· NEW INVENTIONS BOOTH for new technology to help Mother Earth.

· RECYCLEABLE MATERIALS DEPOT (for donation to Echostore’s Refill Reuse Recycle Campaign & the Recycled Art Department of Creative Space Center for Integrated Learning) glossy magazines • soda can ring pull tabs • plastic containers • cereal boxes, • medicine droppers, • buttons• scratch paper (one side used)• old calendars• eggshells • spools • cereal and shoe boxes • plastics • glass bottles

WE ARE COLLECTING RELIEF GOODS & ART MATERIALS FOR DONATION

TO TRAUMATIZED FLOOD VICTIMS OF OUR ADOPTED COMMUNITIES

Bring old clothes, medicines, books, food, school supplies and

Art materials for Art Therapy Classes.

November Events at the Museong Pambata

November Events at the Museong Pambata

1, 2 – Holiday
2 – Start of Toy Drive
7 - Anino sa Museo: “Tutubing Bakal” and “World War III”, 10 AM
8 – MP Guides Corner: Songs in the Wind, 2PM
11 - Recycling is Fun with Tetra Pak, 10AM
14 - Museo Pambata presents... the Manila Dance Kids!, 10 AM; Paglaki Ko, Gusto Ko Maging... , 2 PM
21 – Ang Bayanihan sa Museo, 10 AM
22 – MP Guides Corner: Sand Art 2PM
28– Book on the Spot: Christine S. Bellen's “Rosamistica”, illustrated by Liza Flores, 10AM, Dulaang Pambata, 2PM

When I Grow Up Art Sale and Exhibit

When I Grow Up is this year's theme for the art sale and exhibit mounted for the benefit of CRIBS Foundation Inc., an institution that provides a loving home environment for abandoned infants and young girl-survivors of sexual abuse.

Coinciding with the National Children's Month, the fine art pieces donated by the generous painters-benefactors of the UP Art Studies Society and HeArtists.

The exhibit will be lighted by Genasia Teknika, via their Oslo Lamps. Generous friends from Writeshop, Creative Box, and ExhihibionEast have put together their time, talent, and resources to mount this exposition.

Art enthusiasts and gallery owners are enjoined to be part of this event for a worthy cause.

Gallery owners have the chance to participate in ADOPT-A-PAINTING, a campaign aimed at creating an awareness program among a select group of galleries nationwide to not only provide a loving "home" for each piece of work but also to instill the idea among their customers that they have contributed to a worthy cause.

Contact Details:

For inquiries, please call Isabel "Jing" Dionisio-Capati at (63 920) 483-6036 or (63 916) 595-8705.

Power Plant Mall
Rockwell
Makati City, Metro Manila
Philippines

C Mo Si Direk

Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) with the support of APT Entertainment presents
C MO SI DIREK
featuring the following films:

Soxie Topacio's Ded Na Si Lolo, November 13
Maryo J. Delos Reyes' Kamoteng Kahoy, November 14
Joel Lamangan's Fuschia, November 15.

Time: 7:30 PM
Place: PETA Theater Center #5 Eymard Drive, New Manila Q.C.
Tickets P500 for all the films

A forum will follow after every screenings where audiences can interact with the directors.

Art Flood for the Benefit of the Philippine National Red Cross

Art Flood

An Art Collectors' Sale for the Benifit of
the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC)
November 12-14
Silverlens Gallery

Acknowledging the profound impact of the recent typhoons, Silverlens/SLab would like to invite you to ART FLOOD, an art collectors’ sale of modern and contemporary pieces that will run from November 12-14, 1-8PM at Silverlens Gallery.

ART FLOOD seeks to display and sell modern and contemporary pieces at reasonable prices. Silverlens has chosen the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) as its beneficiary. In addition to helping rebuild the lives of displaced Metro Manila residents, ART FLOOD will also provide an opportunity to bring affordable art to new collectors.

Artwork by Gus Albor, John Bautista, BenCab, Benjie Cabangis, Ronald Caringal, Ernesto Carratala, Mariano Ching, Louie Cordero, Marina Cruz, Kiko Escora, Alfredo Esquillo, Dina Gadia, Marciano Galang, Joe Geraldo, Mia Herbosa, Riel Hilario, Geraldine Javier, Erwin Leaño, Gilberto Magpantay, Joven Mansit, Lito Mayo, Leeroy New, Justin Nuyda, Jayson Oliveria, Renato Ong, Jim Orencio, Mikel Parrial, Cid Reyes, Rene Robles, Reynaldo Rodriguez, Elmer Roslin, Susan Stair, Jose Tence Ruiz, Rodolfo Samonte, Jaypee Samson, Yasmin Sison, Wire Tuazon, Mark Valenzuela, Roy Veneracion, Chris Villanueva, Costantino Zicarelli and a growing roster of new and established artists' work will be available at ART FLOOD.

The highlight of the event will be a live auction at 6PM on Nov. 14, Saturday. A number of hand-picked pieces by collector partners and gallery partners will be auctioned at this time by auctioneer and performance artist, Carlos Celdran. The proceeds will maximize the impact of ART FLOOD on PNRC's efforts in disaster relief throughout the devastated areas in Marikina, Mandaluyong, San Juan, Pasig, Makati, Pateros, Las Pinas, and Muntinlupa.

In solidarity with Silverlens, Galleria Duemila, blanc, and Art Informal will also be selling pieces from their individual gallery collections.

For collectors and galleries who are interested in participating in ART FLOOD, or for more information on the event please contact Cathy Paras-Lara at msparas@gmail.com or 816-0044.

Image: Alfredo Esquillo's Monsters in the Orchestra 2, detail

**Taken from the Silverlens Gallery website.

NEW DIRECTIONS IN ART STUDIES AND THE HUMANITIES

NEW DIRECTIONS IN ART STUDIES AND THE HUMANITIES

The 2nd Philippine Art Studies Conference

February 18 & 19, 2010

Tambunting Hall, Museum of the Filipino People
National Museum of the Philippines



The Second Art Studies conference aims to chart emergent directions in art writing, pedagogy, criticism and production of Philippine art. The latter is broadly conceived, from the visual and literary to the architectural and performative and on to the hypermediated. While the 2002 Art Studies conference reflected on discourses that have shaped writing on Philippine art, this conference maps out new disciplinal streams and modes of studying Philippine art. As such, it is seen as a platform of inquiry situating Philippine art studies in a critically interpretive and interrogative space. While the reflexive posture that the conference takes signals the act of looking back, it also intimates possibilities and directions, and aims to form coherent signposts and productive engagements for scholars, researchers and artists alike, in the future.

The conference explores the following themes:

Pedagogy:

• Production of knowledge about Philippine art

• Systems sustaining dominant knowledge of Philippine art

• Art and the everyday – revisiting the links between art and life

• Spaces of pedagogy and spaces of critique

• Art practice as pedagogical possibility

• Tracing disciplinal orientations in art studies and humanities

• Curriculum building and textbook writing in the Humanities

• Art Education in the Philippines: An Assessment



Curatorial Practice:

• Exhibitions as dialogical platforms

• Curatorial models that challenge the notion of an art ‘center’

• Curation and pedagogy

• Curation and aesthetic debates: Variant modes of art reception

• Collaborative curatorial practice

• Curation and the production of contemporary art history

• Curation, institutions, and art markets



Local Art Writing and Criticism:

• Local art writing and their specific discourses

• Local criticism and regional, global resonances

• Knowledge production and local art writing in relation to the question of aesthetics

• Modes of circulation and audience formation

• Is art history global?

• Theory of art in the Philippines



Disciplinal Intersections:

• New studies in Philippine art and society

• Formation of disciplinal nodes and networks via disciplinal intersections

• Mapping creative, multi-disciplinal modes of inquiry and responses

• Interdisciplinal trajectories

• Methods in global art history or history of global art

• Art and social movements (class, gender, ecology, ethnicity, spirituality

Art historians, researchers, curators, artists and art administrators engaged in various art forms and whose works explore these themes and related issues are invited to send proposals for individual presentations. Proposals should include title and abstract of 250 words, contact details and institutional affiliation.

Conference fee is P2, 500.00 and includes a copy of conference proceedings, light snacks and dinner. Early bird registration is P1, 800.00 until 15 December 2009.

Inquiries and registrations of interest thru: artstudiesnewdirections@gmail. com

or the following conference conveners:

Prof. Cecilia S. Dela Paz
Prof. Patrick D. Flores, PhD
Prof. Tessa Maria T. Guazon


Department of Art Studies, College of Arts and Letters
Faculty Center Room 2092
University of the Philippines- Diliman
1101 Quezon City

Phone: +632-9270581 or +632-9818500 local 2115


IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 November 2009
Notification for accepted proposals: 15 December 2009
Deadline for conference registration: 30 December 2009
Submission of full papers: 30 January 2010

ReLEEgious Paintings, an art exhibition of the latest paintings by Romeo Lee opening on January 10, 2009, Saturday with a special screening of RoxLee's "Romeo Must Rock" at 5pm & LEE's Night at 9pm. The show will run til February 5, 2009.

	Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 6:00pm
	Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 12:00pm
	mag:net gallery katipunan
	335 Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights
	Quezon City, Philippines
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Phone:	9293191
Email:	www.magnetgalleries.com

KIDLAT TAHIMIK RETROSPECTIVE

Jan12-15 2009, UP

THE INDIO-GENIUS CALENDAR: Jan12-15
UP Film Center (except for the Afterparty at Magnet Katipunan)

MONDAY 6-10pm
6-8pm: Opening
8-10pm: Why Is Yellow The Middle Of The Rainbow / Bakit Dilaw Ang Gitna Ng Bahaghari

TUESDAY 6-10pm
My Bahag My Love / Bahag Ko Mahal Ko
Holy Wood / Banal Kahoy
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?

WEDNESDAY 6-10pm
Takadera Mon Amour
Orbit 50
Celebrating 2021 Today
Our Bomb Mission to Hiroshima
Turumba

WEDNESDAY: 10pm-1am at Mag:net Katipunan
Kidlat Tahimik Retrospective AFTERPARTY
Featuring: khavndelacruz.com, Tom Estrella Sr. & The Shadows, Norman Wilwayco, Donna Miranda, Roberto Nicolas, Angelo Suarez, Tengal, Earth Jazz Trio, Joel Toledo, Ledh, Taggu N'Dios, Arvie Bartolome, Roxlee

THURSDAY 5-10pm
A Talk w/ Kidlat Tahimik
Memories of Overdevelopment
Some More Rice
Dalawang Atang at Isang Pagnakaw
Roof / Bubong
Perfumed Nightmare / Mababangong Bangungot


“The world knows Kidlat Tahimik for “Perfumed Nightmare” and “Turumba.” But his oeuvre is vast and varied but all encoded with his uncompromising manifesto on filmmaking and Third World cinema. Here is the primordial muck of independent cinema. Take a deep, long dip.” (Dodo Dayao, “Piling-piling Pelikula”)

You are invited to the OPENING NIGHT of the Kidlat Tahimik Retrospective:
January 12, 2009, Monday, 6:00pm.
Opening Film: “Why Is Yellow The Middle Of The Rainbow” aka “Bakit Yellow Ang Gitna Ng Bahaghari” aka “I Am Furious… Yellow” (1994)
Guest starring: Andrei Tarkovsky

VENUE:
Ishmael Bernal Gallery
UP Film Center aka UP Cine Adarna
University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City

DATE & TIME:
January 12-15, 2009, Monday-Thursday. 5:30pm onwards.

TICKETS: P50 only

PRESENTED by UP Film Institute with .MOV International Digital Film Festival, UP Silip, UP Cineaste, UP Cinema, UP Cast, Mighty Bhutens, & Filmless Films

“Perfumed Nightmare” was unforgettable. And so is its creator, Kidlat Tahimik. Born Eric Oteyza de Guia in 1942. Self-taught cineaste. Primitive filmmaker. Fiercely anti-commercial. Advocate of what he calls the Pinoy indio-genius. This we do by slaying the cultural father that is Hollywood. Breaking out of the colonial cocoon,as it were An indefatigable indie, he churns out film after film after film to this day. His praxis is to dig out his sariling duende, buried alive by education, and setting it free. (Khavn De La Cruz)

CONTACT:
Mobile: 0915-6769488
Email: ktretro2009@gmail.com

LINKS:
http://ktretro2009.multiply.com/
http://www.movfest.com/

YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5UQGfVvrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GJo5n0MpTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqcAiAsgqSY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI-WMhh_IHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5q7Ionl28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzaUK1ZZ1M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqy5JPI9MsE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POttb8dTvBQ

BIOGRAPHY
Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City), better known as Kidlat Tahimik, is a filmmaker, writer, artist and actor whose films are commonly associated through their critiques of neocolonialism with the Third World Cinema movement.
Tahimik studied at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, earned a Master in Business Administration, and worked as a researcher for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from 1968 to 1972 before "returning home to be a filmmaker and ending as a G-stringed (bahag) adopted son of Ifugao."
Tahimik grew up in Baguio City, Philippines, a summer resort community established in the presence of several U.S. Military bases. This experience was a weighty influence on the themes of his films, most notably the semi-autobiographical Perfumed Nightmare (1977) and Turumba (1981). That latter of these two provides some insight into the circumstances that brought him to Europe and into the presence of filmmaker Werner Herzog, who along with director Francis Ford Coppola and his American Zoetrope Films was instrumental in helping to release Perfumed Nightmare in America. This groundbreaking film went on to win the international film critics jury prize at the Berlin Film festival, as well as the Catholic Jury Prize and the Ecumenical Jury prize.

FILMOGRAPHY
1977- Mababangong Bangungot aka Perfumed Nightmare
1979 - Sinong Lumikha Ng Yoyo? Sinong Lumikha Ng Moon Buggy? aka Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1980 - Ang Balikbayan aka Memories of Overdevelopment
1982 - Yanki: Made in Hongkong
1983 - Turumba
1983-1994 - Bakit Yellow ang Gitna ng Bahaghari? aka Why Is Yellow The Middle Of The Rainbow aka I Am Furious…Yellow
1987-1989 - Takadera Mon Amour
1990-1992 - Orbit 50 aka Letters to my Three Sons
1995 - Our Bomb Mission To Hiroshima
1996 - Bahag ko, Mahal ko aka Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
2000 - Banal-Kahoy aka Holy Wood
2003 - Aqua Planet
2005 - Some More Rice
2005 - Dalawang Atang at Isang Pagnakaw
2007 - Bubong (Roofs of the World! Unite!)

Spread the word. See you there. And a happy new year!

URBAN PLAN WOP RESIDENT MARK SALVATUS WITH GEM URDANETA, BUEN CALUBAYAN AND JONG PAIREZ

URBAN PLAN
WEDNESDAYS OPEN PLATFORM, JANUARY 7, BAR OPENS 7PM
WOP RESIDENT MARK SALVATUS WITH GEM URDANETA, BUEN CALUBAYAN AND JONG PAIREZ

"Kidnap someone and make them happy." Wear your Sunday best and catch a ferry ride along Pasig River. Remember to close your eyes, lest you miss out on devilish details of history. Stroll along the least navigated paths; under the brid

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ge; the dark, crowded, and rowdy eskinita and leave your markings. Never mind the looming disorientation, burning heat of the sun nor the sticky pungent city smells, our stories are woven in the streets. Our lives unfolding between the public and private. Should it all be too much to bear, there is nothing else left to do but throw kisses in the air. If you can't beat them don't even try.

How do we write the city? In varying degrees of love and hate? Mark Salvatus, WOP resident, embarks on a stroll of our beloved cities to investigate how artists, creatives, by-standers, and the public see the city in different perspectives. Taking a step further and begging committed actions. Yes, opinions will be strongly solicited. Kicking off his eight-week residency is an introduction to Neo-Urban Planner along with a presentation from Gem Urdaneta, sound installation from Buen Calubayan and Jong Pairez's Postal Box Project. The holidays are finally over, we can be normal once again! See you for the initial installment of Urban Plan.

	Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 8:00pm
	Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 12:00am
	Green Papaya Art Projects
	41B T. Gener St, Kamuning Road
	Quezon City, Philippines
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Contact Info

Phone:	6327941628
Email:	info@greenpapayaartprojects.org

Transmissions Gangan

OPEN STUDIO: January 8-9 / 8pm (Green Papaya Art Projects)
CONCERT: January 10 / 9-10pm (Cubao X)

Location: Green Papaya Art Projects – 41 T. Gener St. corner Kamuning Rd., Quezon City

Cubao Shoe Expo "Cubao X" – Gen. Romulo St., Araneta Center, Cubao Quezon City


SABAW is pleased to welcome California-based composer, pianist, electronic musician, instrument-builder, CHRIS BROWN, who creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. He will be performing his Transmissions series in collaboration with media artist Tengal and the electronic sound-video performance collective, The Gangan Ensemble.

The "Transmissions" series is an audience interactive, live electronic music performance series about the transmission of culture through the information media of sound and radio. It redefines the relationship of performers and audience to the radio medium, opening audio spaces to unheard voices in diverse communities by emphasizing the ability of both to create both the content and the means of production of radio communication. For this performance, radios in automobiles are primarily going to be used since it provides a more familiar experience and is easily accessible today.

Using the outdoor parking space of Cubao X, Chris Brown and The Gangan Ensemble produce live electronic music, while video artist Tad Ermitano performs live video manipulation alongside the electro-magnetic sound tapestry. We are also pleased to feature the video works of California-based visual artist, Johanna Poethig. The live music is mixed into a stereo channel, which is sent to a low-power FM radio transmitter, assigned to a unique frequency where people in the performance space can tune in.


Sound Performances by:
Chris Brown [computer, live sound engineering, radio transmissions]
Gangan Ensemble:
• Tengal [stereo mixers, drums, objects, ipods]
• Caliph 8 [turntables, samplers]
• Malek Lopez [laptop electronics]
• Inconnu ictu [analogue electronics]
• Blums Borres [electric guitar]
• Lirio Salvador [self-built electronic synthesizer]
Videos by:
Tad Ermitano
Johanna Poethig

more info here: http://tengalgorhythm.blogspot.com/2009/01/transmissions-gangan.html


THIS IS A FREE EVENT. REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR CARS AND PORTABLE FM RADIOS! THE MORE RADIOS THE BETTER AND BIGGER THE SOUND TAPESTRY!

ALSO: Before the concert performance in Cubao X on JANUARY 10, there will be two-nights of OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS with Chris Brown and the Gangan Ensemble at Green Papaya Art Projects on JANUARY 8 and 9. The OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS invites the public to be part of the creative process as the methods of the performance of composition and electronic music and the radio transmissions shall be discussed, and where they can also interact with the artists. This will benefit people who are particularly interested in various issues in composition, improvisation, and performing electronic music in general.

These events are presented by SABAW Media Art Kitchen in cooperation with Green Papaya Art Projects, Mogwai Cinema Club, and Cubao Shoe Expo.

Artist talk Stella Kalaw

This coming Saturday, January 10, 2009, from 3-5pm, United States based artist Stella Kalaw will be giving an Artist Talk at Silverlens Gallery, as part of her show Family Spaces. In it, Kalaw will discuss the family as a photographic subject. Going beyond the snapshot, she will be presenting several approaches and ideas that explore this subject matter through her own work and personal projects from other contemporary photographers.

Stella Kalaw (b. 1969 in Manila) graduated with a degree in Professional Photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography in California and worked as an intern in Irving Penn’s Studio in New York City shortly after. Kalaw has been part of group shows in Washington, New York, California and at the Ayala Museum in Manila. Her works have garnered awards such as a Honorable Mention in the Polaroid International Awards and the Gold Prize in American Photo Magazine’s New Views Awards.

Family Spaces by Stella Kalaw opens on January 8 at 6pm and runs until February 7 at Silverlens Gallery. Family Spaces will be shown along with Library Bookworks by Renato Orara at SLab (Silverlens Lab).

Silverlens Gallery is at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Image:
Stella Kalaw
Tsinelas, 2004

OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS CHRIS BROWN / GANGAN ENSEMBLE

JANUARY 8-9, 8-10PM

Because ours is a time obsessed with transparency as it is always more interesting to see behind the thought process of any creative endeavor. Even more so now that art is increasingly becoming another fashionable trend. Hang around exhibition openings and for sure you will catch conversations among collectors and enthusiasts mulling over the hottest ‘fashion finds.’ Well, it’s a wait-and-see now with the global financial crisis looming over our shoulders. Still what has market dictates have to do with obscurantist experimental sound practice? Precisely the point, as it neither appeals to any commercial or accessible taste, it looks back at our consumptive compulsions driven by a world manipulated by desires.

The OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS invites the public to re-think their position in the process of artistic production. A seeming back-stage pass, only this time there are no VIP lines! For two days, CHRIS BROWN and GANGAN ENSEMBLE open up their creative space to the public as they negotiate their way around the creative process, strategies of collaboration, methods of performance and composition of electronic music and radio transmission – touching upon various issues in composition, improvisation and performing electronic music. The sessions lead up to TRANSMISSION GANGAN, an open air video/sound performance at the parking space of CUBAO X on January 10. So come, if you are the action-hero-film type, this is the best time to catch the artists as they wrestle each other’s process.

FREE ADMISSION. BAR OPENS 7PM

	Thursday, January 8, 2009
	8:00pm - 10:00pm
	GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS
	41B T.Gener Street, cor Kamuning Road

Contact Info

Phone:	6327941628
Email:	info@greenpapayaartprojects.org

My Masterpiece is Open for Enrollees

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Together let us spark a new generation of creativity!

My Masterpiece is accepting enrollees for our Multi-Arts Program, 3rd Term, School Year 2008-2009. Classes start next week (January 15 - March 14, 2009), and are now held in Valle Verde, Pasig.

Free! Two photo-frame notecards for the first 30 full-term enrollees.

Enroll now! Limited slots available.
Please see attached flyer and video for more details :)

For reservations, call or text me, Teacher Anna, at 0915-4327439, or email mymasterpiece@mac.com

See you at My Masterpiece!

Love life & imagine always,
Anna Escay-Cortez
Creative Director
My Masterpiece Multi-Arts Center
"Inspiring Creativity & Wonder"
0915-4327439

The Quest of the Abstract

The first arresting forum for 2009! ARTALK series invited top abstract artists/painters to meander imaginatively, intellectually & conceptually into the mind & hand that fashions the physical into incomprehensability & plausible mystery. Issues pertaining this oft-neglected, misunderstood & elusive genre would open fresh vistas both to the serious practitioner & the curious dillitante.

Note: 3 recent paintings on this poster were done by Bert Antonio.

Date:	Sunday, January 25, 2009
Time:	3:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:	HCF hall @ # 700 Aguana Bldg, G/f
	Aurora Blvd, between Gilmore & Hemady Sts, across St. Paul University
	New Manila, Quezon City