Planting Rice and SCCA Center for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, with generous support of De La Salle College of Saint Benilde and Asia Europe Foundation, will be presenting the second part of CURATING-IN-DEPTH in Manila from 28 July-7 August 2015.
Participants from Slovenia/Croatia, Southeast Asia come together to discuss and present artistic and curatorial practices that contests the contemporary in critical non-linear art histories, alternative organizational infrastructures through a series of events and discussions. There will also be a talk on the issue of archiving in video and experimental cinema. An experimental video and film screening from the archives of SCCA Ljubljana and Mowelfund FIlm Institute will also be presented.
CURATING-IN-DEPTH 2
Symposium on art/curatorial practices and discourse in Slovenia, Croatia, Southeast Asia and the Philippines
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SYMPOSIUM DAY 1
3 August | Monday | 1-4.30PM
Venue Blackbox, 6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde
2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004
Rehistoricization: Criticality in linear art histories
1PM /// Antonija Letinić (Croatia), What is The Future of Criticism?
1.30PM /// Renan Laru-an (Philippines), Being Subtracted From
2.30PM /// Lian Ladia (Philippines), Anachronism of Southeast Asian Modernism: Raden Saleh.
3PM /// Simon Soon (Malaysia), Bodies that Matter – Art and the Cultural Left
3.30PM /// Q&A
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SYMPOSIUM DAY 2
4 August Tuesday | 1-5PM
Venue Blackbox, 6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde
2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004
Alternative organizational infrastructures
1PM /// Dušan Dovč (Slovenia), The same word different meaning: a brief introduction to the cultural art production in Slovenia.
1.30PM /// Angel Velasco Shaw (Philippines/USA), Markets of Resistance: Baguio/Manila.
2PM /// Miha Kelemina (Slovenia), The Liminale. Modes of working, production and networking.
3PM /// Arlette Tran (Vietnam), Curating on demand – Shifts of curatorial practice to engage non-art zones
3.30PM /// Simona Žvanut (Slovenia), World of Arts, School for Critics and Curators of Contemporary Art.
4PM /// Q&A
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SYMPOSIUM DAY 3
5 August Wednesday | 1-6PM
Venue Blackbox, 6F School of Design and Arts, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde
2544 Taft Ave. Malate, Manila 1004
1PM /// Barbara Borčić (Slovenia), Video As a Tool and Strategy of Artistic Expression. Selected Examples From DIVA Station Archival Practices in Video.
3PM /// Ricky Orellana (Philippines), The Mowelfund Audio-Visual Archive. Talk and Selected Examples from the Archive.
17.30 Q & A
Auxiliary programs for opportunities for further discussion and engagement are:
1 August, Saturday | 3-7PM | Artery Art Space, Cubao
Roundtable, If Art is a Hammer, organized by Concerned Artists of the Philippines
With Neil Doloricon, Renan Ortiz, and Antares Bartolome (Concerned Artists of the Philippines), Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez (Pananaw Sining Bayan, Back to Square 1), Mark Justiniani (Visual Artist), Duffie Osental (Art+), Leo Abaya (U.P. Fine Arts), Randy Nobleza (Marindukanon Studies Center and Info Shop.)
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2 August, Sunday | 3-5PM | 98B Escolta
Southeast Asian Reading group, reference of critical text, moderated by Thea Garing of the Lopez Museum & Library
Sidd Perez, Lian Ladia (Planting Rice, Manila), Renan Laru-An (Disclab, Manila) Angel Velasco Shaw (Markets of Resistance, Manila), Simon Soon (Researcher/Historian, Kuala Lumpur), Arlette Tran (Curator, Sanart, Saigon)
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6 – 7 August | Benilde SDA Cinema
Film Retrospective of John Torres (Philippines), Benilde SDA Cinema
Curatorial Mapping in Manila (pdf)
Curating-in-Context Programme (pdf)
Curating-In-Depth is supported in the fourth edition of Creative Encounters: Cultural Partnerships between Asia and Europe programmed by Asia Europe Foundation with its partners Arts Network Asia and Trans Europe Halle. It is an incubator project aimed towards the development of curatorial exchange brought together mainly by two non-governmental institutions in Slovenia and the Philippines, namely SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana and Planting Rice. Curating-In-Depth conducts this exchange through immersive programs in both the cultural communities of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Manila, Philippines from May to August 2015 and aims to sustain these initial engagements through a shared network platform and e-publication of materials produced and referenced in the project.
Kit1_Art Spaces in Manila (pdf)
Kit2_Manila Guide (pdf)