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Art Stud 143: Guest Lecture Series

Art and Artmaking in the Time of Covid-19

“Splitting Hairs”

Speaker: Rocky Cajigan

May 27, Thursday, 2:30 – 4:00pm

To register for the May 20 event click 
https://tinyurl.com/GLSMay27

Join us on May 27, 2021 2:30 pm, for the final installment of our Guest Lecture Series on “Art and Artmaking in the Time of Covid – 19.” The series is organized by students of Art Studies 143 (Contemporary Art), a course offered by the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman. 

In his paintings, installations, and assemblages, Rocky Cajigan explores material culture, indigeneity, and museology as entanglements in or possibilities for decolonization. His work is largely focused on identity questions and the transitioning of and decolonization in indigenous cultures. What does it mean to be indigenous now? Born in the Mountain Province, Rocky constantly re-imagines his personal history as part of an indigenous community. He examines the privileges, dangers, and insecurities this history holds in the formation of an identity in a place where decolonization is often coopted by capital experienced as hegemony, finance, and center.

Rocky Cajigan will share his experiences and insights on conceptualizing and producing artworks in this talk entitled, Splitting Hairs. He will discuss his artistic process in the creation of his works, like Ration Series, which remain relevant to ethnographic research, national identity, and indigenous communities in the Philippines. His works have already been exhibited in various countries, particularly, Philippines, Taiwan, and Nepal.

To register: click:  https://tinyurl.com/GLSMay27

This is the final event of the series. We thank you all for participating in our previous live sessions. We hope to see you in the future events of the Department!

For more information and inquiries about the recently concluded Guest Lecture Series, please email fddatuin@up.edu.ph

Art Stud 143: Guest Lecture Series

Faye Cura: “Feminist Publishing as Feminist Organizing”

May 25, Tuesday | 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

Para mag register:     tinyurl.com/GLSMay25   

Malugod namin kayong iniimbitahan sa ika-5 talakayan sa Guest Lecture Series na inihanda ng mga estudyante ng Art Studies 143: Contemporary Art, isang kurso mula sa Department of Art Studies – University of the Philippines Diliman. 

Ang panauhing tagapagsalita sa sesyong ito ay si Bb. Faye Cura, manunulat, editor at convener ng GANTALA PRESS. Ang Gantala Press na itinatag noong 2015 sa Metro Manila ay isang independent, non-profit, at volunteer-run na Filipina feminist press at literary collective na nakasentro sa mga kwento ng kababaihan at ang kanilang partisipasyon at pakikipaglaban. Naglilimbag ang Gantala Press ng iba’t ibang publikasyon at nagdaraos ng press fairs, diskusyon, at workshops para sa kanilang mga adbokasiya. Naniniwala ang Gantala Press sa potensiyal ng Feminist Press bilang aksyong politikal kasama ang mga kababaihang artista at mga samahang kababaihan sa bansa. 

Samahan kami at sama-sama tayong matuto sa 25 May 2021, 2:30pm – 4:00 PM. Para mag register: tinyurl.com/GLSMay25

Inaaanyayahan rin ang lahat na samahan kami sa darating na sesyon:

May 27 – Rocky Cajigan 

Kita-kita tayo at sabay-sabay na matutuo! 

Para sa iba pang impormasyon at mga katanungan, maaaring i-email sa fddatuin@up.edu.ph  

Art Stud 143: Guest Lecture Series

“WOMANIFESTO: LINKING COMMUNITIES”

Speaker: Varsha Nair

May 20, Thursday, 2:30 – 4:00pm

To register for the May 20 event click https://tinyurl.com/GLSMay20th

Join us on May 20, 2021, 2:30 pm, for the fourth installment of our Guest Lecture Series on “Art and Artmaking in the Time of Covid – 19.” The series is organized by students of Art Studies 143 (Contemporary Art), a course offered by the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman. 

The May 20 session focuses on WOMANIFESTO, an international art exchange that began in 1995, when a group of women artists, writers and activists from Thailand organized a feminist art exhibition titled Tradisexion at Concrete House, an alternative art space in Bangkok. In 1997, Womanifesto evolved into a biennial, and has since brought together exhibitions, workshops, artist-in-residence programs, and other forms of exchanges and conversations aiming to link art practitioners and communities all over the world. In the context of separation and lockdowns, Womanifesto is meeting in virtual spaces through  ‘Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings,’ which opened up conversations with various groups joining in from Udon Thani (Thailand), Baroda (India), Berlin (Germany), Sydney (Australia), Basel (Switzerland), and London (UK). Each location invited friends and colleagues and followed their own theme in relation to their immediate situation and consideration of what a gathering could be in current times. What happened locally was linked internationally viawww.blog.womanifesto.com.

We will learn more about Womanifesto in this session through co-organizer, VARSHA NAIR, whose  art practice encompasses various approaches and genres, including bringing people and things together. She has also exhibited widely in Bangkok, New Delhi, Basel, Glasgow, Perth, and Melbourne,  London, Berlin, Turin, and New York, among others.  Nair has published her writings in various art journals such as n paradoxa, Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Art AsiaPacific, and Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art of which she is Editorial Board member. She is currently a guest lecturer at Hochschule Lucerne, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

To register: click:  https://tinyurl.com/GLSMay20th

You may also wish to mark your calendars for the upcoming events in this series:

May 25 – Gantala Press (Faye Cura)

May 27 – Rocky Cajigan

 We hope to see you in each of these talks! For more information and inquiries, please email fddatuin@up.edu.ph