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 | |
| Phone: | 9293191 |
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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
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 bridge; 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.Publish Post
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 | |
| Phone: | 6327941628 |
| Email: |
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.
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
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 |
| Phone: | 6327941628 |
| Email: |
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 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 |