Washed Out, a solo show of Kiri Dalena, opens 7 June 2012

Washed Out, a solo exhibition of artist Kiri Dalena, opens at Finale Art File’s Tall Gallery on June 7, 2012, Thursday, at 6 pm. Running until the 30^th of June with an artist talk on June 16, Saturday, at 5.30 pm, the exhibition presents a video installation which focuses on the effect of typhoon Sendong in Iligan.

The videos in the exhibition consist of documentation taken by Dalena during the aftermath of Sendong. An installation of logs, three of thousands which had been washed out during the typhoon, provides a certain tangible presence of the event within the space.

The exhibition is curated by Clarissa Chikiamco and presented with the support of Canon Philippines. Finale Art File is at Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound, 2241 Chino Roces Avenue, Makati Metro Manila. It is open Mondays to Saturdays, 10 am-7 pm, and may be reached atfinaleartfileinc@gmail.com or at (632) 813.2310. Visit http://www.finaleartfile.com. 

End Frame 3: Maria Taniguchi's Untitled (Celestial Motors)

END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT 3, the Philippine Video Art Festival,

together with Silverlens 20Square, presents

UNTITLED (CELESTIAL MOTORS)

a solo exhibition of Maria Taniguchi

Opening on Thurs, 15 March 2012, 6 pm.

Exhibition runs until 14 April 2012.

End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, the 2011-2012 Philippine video art festival, together with Silverlens 20Square, presents MariaTaniguchi’s solo exhibition, Untitled (Celestial Motors). The show opens at Silverlens 20Square on 15 March 2012, Thursday, at 6 pm and runs until14 April.

Untitled (Celestial Motors) features Taniguchi’s video of the Philippine jeepney, using one from the Celestial Motors factory in San Pablo. Focusing on an unadorned unpainted jeepney of stainless steel shot against a white backdrop, the video bares the jeepney as an object of study. Through simple, crisp and startling takes showing the jeepney stripped into its basic form, the video distances from any specific context and instead acts as framework in accommodating the full weight of this iconic vehicle.

Maria Taniguchi studied sculpture at the University of the Philippines and graduated with an MFA in Art Practice from Goldsmiths, London. She took part in the LUX Associate Artists Program and recently won the 2011 Ateneo Art Awards. Her practice considers information, juxtaposition and relationships of her subjects of study. She lives and works between London and Manila and will soon do a residency at Artspace Auckland in New Zealand.

Taniguchi’s Untitled (Celestial Motors) is also the sixth offering of End Frame Video Art Project 3, a project of the non-profit organization Visual Pond. Throughout the Philippine video art festival, artists stage a solo show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, the theme of the third edition, Present, refers to the project’s focus on the current video art practices of selected Philippine contemporary artists. Taniguchi’s exhibition follows the End Frame 3 shows of Tad Ermitaño, Manny Montelibano, Chitz Ramirez, Kiri Dalena and Kaloy Olavides. End Frame 3 caps with an exhibition by Yason Banal later this year.

Untitled (Celestial Motors) is made possible through the support of the LUX Associate Artists Program/Leverhulme Fund, London, UK.The show will be viewable throughout its run between Monday to Friday, 10 am to 7 pm, and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm (Closed Holy Week from 5 to 9 April).Silverlens 20Square is located on 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati. Call (632) 816.0044 or visit http://slab.silverlensphoto.com. For inquiries onVisual Pond projects and End Frame 3, visit http://www.visualpond.org or email visualpond@gmail.com.

Invitation to End Frame 3: The Image of Sound, a solo exhibition of Kaloy Olavides

Visual Pond’s End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, the 2011-2012 Philippine video art festival, together with West Gallery, presents The Image of Sound, the solo exhibition of Kaloy Olavides. The show opens at Gallery 2 of West Gallery on 16 February 2012, Thursday, at 6 pm and runs until 5 March. An artist talk will be held at 2 pm on 3 March, Saturday.

The Image of Sound focuses on the significance of sound to video and television, which, as moving images, have been more dominantly associated with visuals and the act of looking, seeing and watching. Yet, examining another sensory quality, Olavides’ exhibition centers on the medium’s aural experience, done through documentation of simple performative techniques. While forcing the audience to concentrate on sound, the show seemingly negates the importance of images. Yet, in its austerity, The Image of Sound points to the vitality and potency of both these elements in the recognition of how one informs the other.

A year 2000 fine arts graduate from the University of the Philippines, Kaloy Olavides practices with painting, collage, performance and sound and video installation. His works’ themes are inclined to absurdity, irony, anxiety, deception and redirection. His artistic practice is informed by his work in production and sound design for films, music videos, commercials and audiovisual presentations. Olavides is also currently a member of the experimental sound collective Elemento.

Olavides’s The Image of Sound is also the fifth offering of End Frame Video Art Project 3, a project of the non-profit organization Visual Pond. Throughout the Philippine video art festival, artists stage a solo show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, the theme of the third edition, Present, refers to the current project’s focus on the video art practices of selected Philippine contemporary artists. Last year’s End Frame 3 shows included presentations by Tad Ermitaño, Manny Montelibano, Chitz Ramirez and Kiri Dalena. End Frame 3 continues into 2012 with exhibitions by Olavides, Maria Taniguchi and Yason Banal. Visit http://www.visualpond.org.

Video Art Exhibitions in the Fourth Cinema Rehiyon in Bacolod this February

Video Art Exhibitions in the Fourth Cinema Rehiyon in Bacolod this February

The fourth edition of Cinema Rehiyon, the annual Philippine regional film festival of the National Commission of Culture and the Arts, presents a special project on video art, an art form which crosses the fields of both the visual arts and cinema. Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, the video art contribution to Cinema Rehiyon 2012 includes two exhibitions, Killing Time and Gilubong ang Akong Pusod sa Dagat, which open during the festival's run in Bacolod from 8 to 11 February 2012.

Killing Time, a group exhibition which opens at Negros Museum on 8 February at 6 pm, features a selection of videos of Philippine artists which directly transact with time, as either the subject of the video itself or as method. Through featuring, extending, repeating, rupturing or reversing time, the artworks of this exhibition, ranging from 1994 to 2011/2012, focus on this essential element of video art practice. The exhibition attempts to show how artists implement time in their video work through different means and objectives. It also aims to concentrate on time as one of the most important topics of contemporary art, relevant particularly due to the unfolding of cinematic culture and the increasing technological progression which has reshaped the thoughts and experience of time in the past century. Artists whose works are included in Killing Time include Tad Ermitaño, Yason Banal, Bea Camacho, Kiri Dalena, Kaloy Olavides, Gerry Tan and Maria Taniguchi. The exhibit runs until 26 February.

Gilubong ang Akong Pusod sa Dagat (My Navel is Buried in the Sea) opens in Gallery Orange’s Gallery B, on 9 February at 8 pm with a Cine de Barrio screening the following evening with shorts from Mindanao at 6 pm in Barangay Punta Taytay. The solo exhibition is a video installation by artist Martha Atienza which focuses on fishermen and seafarers from Madridejos, Cebu. It explores the relevance of the sea and its relationship and impact on those who use it as a source of livelihood. First shown in August 2011, its showing in Cinema Rehiyon 4 in Bacolod marks its first exhibition and screening in the Philippines outside of Madridejos. The artist will also be giving a talk at Gallery Orange on 10 February at 2 pm and the show runs until 29 February.

Negros Museum is located at the Former Agricultural Building, Gastulao Street, and Gallery Orange is at Art District, Lopue's Mandalagan Annex Building, Mandalagan, both located in Bacolod City. The schedule for Cinema Rehiyon 4, which includes free admission to all films, may be found in the Cinema Rehiyon website: http://www.cinemarehiyon.com.

Time and Place of Incident artist talk on 1 Dec, Thurs, 2.30-4-30 pm

http://visualpond.blogspot.com/2011/11/time-and-place-of-incident-artist-talk.html

END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT 3

TIME AND PLACE OF INCIDENT

solo exhibition of Kiri Dalena

ongoing at the basement of Vargas Museum until 10 December 2011

Artist talk 1 December 2011, Thursday, 2.30-4.30 pm

Please join us on 1 December 2011, Thursday, 2.30-4.30 pm, for the artist talk of TIME AND PLACE OF INCIDENT, the solo exhibition of Kiri Dalena at the Basement of Vargas Museum. The talk will include a presentation by Dalena in discussion with the curator, Clarissa Chikiamco, and Rowena Paraan, Secretary-General of the show's co-presentor, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.

TIME AND PLACE OF INCIDENT concentrates on the killings of media journalists in the Philippines, with the country being considered as one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists. Dalena’s show involves documentation footage taken by her and volunteers at the grave sites of these journalists as well as shots showing selected places of their assassination.The exhibition runs until 10 December 2011 at Vargas Museum, Roxas Avenue, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Quezon City, open Tuesday to Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm (closed 30 November). There is a short waiting period to view the show. For directions to Vargas Museum, click here: http://vargasmuseum.wordpress.com/visiting-the-museum/where-we-are/

Dalena’s exhibition is also the fourth offering of End Frame Video Art Project 3, a project of the non-profit organization Visual Pond. Throughout the Philippine video art festival, artists stage a solo show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. For more information, visit http://www.visualpond.org and for further inquiries, email visualpond@gmail.com or call +63.917.5357955.

The talk is sponsored by the GeiserMaclang marketing communication company with refreshments from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. The show is made possible by Visual Pond and Vargas Museum and the exhibition’s co-presenters: the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, the University of the Philippines’ College of Mass Communications and Department of Art Studies, the Ateneo Art Gallery, GeiserMaclang and the individuals Carlo Gabuco and Gym Lumbera.

Invitation to End Frame 3 show: Time and Place of Incident, a solo show by Kiri Dalena

End Frame Video Art Project 3, the 2011-2012 Philippine Video Art Festival,

with Vargas Museum Presents

TIME AND PLACE OF INCIDENT

a solo exhibition by Kiri Dalena

Opening on 18 November 2011, Friday, 4 pm.

Artist talk on 1 December 2011, Thursday, 2.30 pm. Exhibition runs until 10 December 2011.

Visual Pond’s End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, the 2011-2012 Philippine video art festival, together with Vargas Museum, presents Kiri Dalena’s solo exhibition, Time and Place of Incident. The show opens at the basement of Vargas Museum on 18 November 2011, Friday, at 4 pm and runs until 10 December. An artist talk will be held at 2:30 pm on 1 December, Thursday.

Time and Place of Incident concentrates on the killings of media journalists in the Philippines, with the country being considered as the world’s second most dangerous place for journalists after Iraq. Dalena’s show involves documentation footage taken by her and volunteers at the grave sites of these journalists as well as shots showing selected places of their assassination. Believing video to be a powerful medium in conveying loss and injustice, the exhibition features Dalena’s stills and videos beaming through multiple projections in the given venue of the museum.

A winner of the Ateneo Art Awards in 2009, Dalena works as an artist and documentary filmmaker. She has made a number of politically charged exhibitions and documentaries. Majority of her sculptures and installations address acts of state violence and injustice that continue to plague the Philippines despite several regime changes. She studied B.S. Human Ecology at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and learned filmmaking at the Mowelfund Film Institute. She had her first solo exhibition in 2007 at Mag:net while this Vargas Museum exhibition forms her fifth.

Dalena’s Time and Place of Incident is also the fourth offering of End Frame Video Art Project 3, a project of the non-profit organization Visual Pond. Throughout the Philippine video art festival, artists stage a solo show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, the theme of the third edition, Present, refers to the current project’s focus on the video art practices of selected Philippine contemporary artists. Dalena’s exhibition follows the End Frame 3 shows of Tad Ermitaño, Manny Montelibano and Chitz Ramirez. End Frame 3 continues to 2012 with exhibitions of Kaloy Olavides, Maria Taniguchi and Yason Banal.

Time and Place of Incident is made possible by the exhibition’s co-presenters: the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, the University of the Philippines’ College of Mass Communications and Department of Art Studies, the Geiser-Maclang marketing company, the Ateneo Art Gallery and the individuals Carlo Gabuco and Gym Lumbera.

The show will be viewable throughout its run between Tuesday-Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm, with appointments of at least 10 minutes in advance highly recommended. The appointment may be set by calling Vargas Museum with telephone number (632) 9281927 or email a day in advance to vargasmuseum@gmail.com. Those without an appointment may view the show after a short waiting period. Vargas Museum is located on Roxas Avenue at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, http://www.vargasmuseum.wordpress.org. There will also be a satellite exhibition, Requiem, at the lobby of Plaridel Hall at the UP College of Mass Communications, Ylanan Road, Diliman, Quezon City, from 17 - 29 November 2011. For inquiries on Visual Pond projects and End Frame 3, visit http://www.visualpond.org or call Rica Estrada at +63917-8170198 or email visualpond@gmail.com.

Curatorial identity

Click here to read my article, "Curatorial identity", out in the Philippine Star last 10 October 2011.