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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

Art Stud 143: Guest Lecture Series: Mark Salvatus

“Sensitivity of the Senses”

May 18, Tuesday| 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

To register for the May 18 event: click here (http://tinyurl.com/GLSMay18 )

Join us for the 3rd instalment of the Guest Lecture Series, organized by students of Art Studies 143 (Contemporary Art), a course being offered by the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Our speaker for this session is Mark Salvatus, an intermedia artist who lives and works in Manila. Working across various disciplines and media, Salvatus’ works have been presented in different exhibitions and venues including, among many others, the the 2^nd Lahore Biennale (2020);  the Sharjah Biennale (2019); the Gwangju Biennale (2018), the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2016-2017); Philippine Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2016); SONSBEEK International, Arnhem, Netherlands (2016); 3rd Singapore Biennale (2011), 4th Guangzhou Triennale (2011), Jakarta Biennale (2011 & 2015), and the Honolulu Biennale (2014). 

He had residencies in Asia Culture Center (ACC) Gwangju, South Korea, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, IASPIS Umea, Sweden; Art OMI, New York, Koganecho, Yokohama and Goyang Art Studio in South Korea. Recently, Salvatus was a visiting artist at University of Colorado Boulder, Art and Art History Department.

Salvatus also organized a wide range of artist-run projects, among them LOAD NA DITO, an artistic and research initiative he co-founded in 2016 with curator Mayumi Hirano. Currently based in Quezon City, Load na Dito hopes to critically address questions on participation, collaboration, and curation in relation to practices and forms of producing and presenting contemporary art. 

Learn more about Salvatus’ practice on 18 May 2021, 2:30pm – 4:00 pm. To register, click http://tinyurl.com/GLSMay18

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

May 20 – Womanifesto (Varsha Nair)

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

Art Stud 143: Guest Lecture Series

Art and Artmaking in the Time of Covid-19

11-27 May, Tuesdays and Thursdays | 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

To register for 13 May event, click here: tinyurl.com/GLSMay13

Join us on May 13, 2:30 PM, for the second installment of our Guest Lecture Series on “Art and Artmaking in the Time of Covid-19.” Organized by students of Art Studies 143 (Contemporary Art), a course being offered by the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman, we focus this time on an artist from Bacolod City, Negros Occidental in the Visayas – Guenivere Decena, a multimedia artist whose works present “the in-betweens, interconnections and the possibilities we can find all around us.”  

Guen, as she is fondly called, is also an organizer and co-organizer of a number of artist-run projects, including AIID (Artist Initiated Interviews and Discussions), an online platform that features local and international artists; and Art Satellite, which organizes and designs art exchanges, collaborations and exhibitions in Bacolod. At present, she also serves as regional curator for VIVA EXCon (Visayas Islands Visual Artists Initiative and Conference), the longest running biennale in the Philippines. 

Learn more about Guen and her practice, on May 13, 2.30-4. Please do not forget to register by clicking the link: http://tinyurl.com/GLSMay13

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

May 18 – Mark Salvatus 

May 20 – Womanifesto (Varsha Nair) 

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