From Elsewhere 2: Curatorial Practices and Artistic Positions
Lectures
12th May 2015, SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana, Slovenia
From Elsewhere 2 is the second edition of our get acquainted with the state of curatorial practices and artistic positions beyond the European area. First we learned about Armenia, Kazakhstan, Egypt and Turkey. This time we went even further. The participants of the Curating-In-Depth project from the Philippines, Singapore and Myanmar will prepare the presentations of their curatorial practices and artistic positions. The discussion and the screening of the selected Filipino video works and short films will follow.
Invitation card (pdf)
PROGRAMME
6 pm: Anupama Sekhar (the Director of the Culture Department of ASEF, Singapore): presentation of the foundation, opportunities and open calls for international cultural cooperation between Europe and Asia.
Presentations:
6.15 pm: Siddharta Perez (Philippines): Prompts: Curatorial strategies in facilitating and sustaining knowledge resources
6.35 pm: Antares Gomez Bartholome (Philippines): Curation as Cultural Work
7 pm: Isabel Ching (Singapore): Frames of Conceptualism from Southeast Asia
7.20 pm: Moe Satt (Myanmar): Short Introduction of Myanmar Performance Art
ABSTRACTS (pdf)
8.10–8.30 pm: Break
Video Screening
8.30 pm: Shireen Seno (Philippines): The Kalampag Tracking Agency
VIDEOS OF PRESENTATIONS
Siddharta Perez: Prompts: Curatorial Strategies in Facilitating and Sustaining Knowledge Resources
The presentation looks into process-based strategies in exhibition-making as a way of dealing with lack of infrastructure support in knowledge production in the Philippines. Case studies will include how curatorial modes of exhibition accommodate activating the audience’s accountability to also contribute, how we negotiate with different sites of power represented by stakeholders of an exhibition and other modes of extending the life of an exhibition.
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Isabel Ching: Frames of Conceptualism from Southeast Asia
While considered as an important vector leading to the plurality of artistic practices globally, “conceptualism” could appear to have only registered frail trails in Southeast Asia. How do we understand, discuss and frame the conceptualisms of specific localities in the region? Looking at a case study each from Myanmar, the Philippines and Singapore, we try to speculate about the fraught, sometimes contested, meanings of conceptualism(s) in history and the efforts made today to reclaim or reanimate their legacies.
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Antares Gomez Bartholome: Curation as Cultural Work
The presentation explores the relationship of curatorial work and political struggle within the context of the Philippines. It briefly tracks the development of art practices and discourses alongside the National Democratic movement in the Philippines from the 1970s onward, and explores how curatorial practice figures in, and is perhaps challenged and refigured by, the varied approaches to artistic production, presentation, and distribution involved in the broader frame of cultural work undertaken by the National Democratic movement in the present.
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Moe Satt: Short Introduction of Myanmar Performance Art
Overviews the history of Myanmar performance art that started in the mid-90s, identifying who they were and what kind of issues they dealt with. The presentation also locates differences and parallelism between the first and second generation of performance artists. Likewise what is the contexts of indoor performances as contrasted from the gallery sites and other outdoor/ more public venues.
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Anupama Sekhar: Presentation of the foundation ASEF; opportunities and open calls for international cultural cooperation
Presentation of the foundation ASEF by Ms Anupama Sekhar, the Director of the Culture Department of ASEF, Singapore. Sekhar is actively engaged in facilitating cultural exchange and collaboration among artists and arts organisations in 53 countries in Asia and Europe and has therefore presented the opportunities and open calls for international cultural cooperation between Europe and Asia.
Shireen Seno: The Kalampag Tracking Agency (curated selection)
Video screening with comments by the curator
Screening of 13 selected Filipino video works and short films with comments by the curator. The selection showcases the works from 1985 until nowadays and demonstrates different aesthetics and usage of visual language by showing the issues of contemporary society in the Philippines.
PROGRAMME (pdf)
The Kalampag Tracking Agency – Curatorial notes (pdf)
PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT
