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
Sunday, November 29, 2009
ITIM ASU 1719-2009 (a dance & multi media production based on the drama of Virginia R. Moreno)
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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
Friday, November 27, 2009
Pulse Miami 2009
PULSE Miami 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.