MCAD will be offering a special Filipino Sign Language (FSL) online guided tour of its current exhibition, do it (MCAD Manila) on 27 August 2021. Interested parties may register on or before 20 August 2021. To learn more about the exhibition, click here. To get in touch with MCAD, please email mcad@benilde.edu.ph.
The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design held a 3-session online writing workshop with Mr Budjette Tan, writer of Trese. For three Saturdays beginning 15 May, 25 participants had three-hour sessions facilitated by Mr Tan to work on an original piece. Their works were responses to Meg Cranston’s instructions which is part of do it (MCADManila). Workshop…
Our July screenings explore the work of Greta Gerwig, which feature naturalistic dialogue and center on female experiences and relationships. Her directorial style and acting work follow realistic yet precise direction, showcasing an interesting trajectory since her beginnings in the mumblecore film movement. The women in Gerwig’s films are flawed and deeply human navigating equally…
8 July 2021 l 3.00pm To register, email mcad@benilde.edu.ph
Online Event l General Public To register, email us at mcad@benilde.edu.ph Issues of climate change, capitalism and marine extraction among others are approached from the medium of ocean, reflecting an anxiety situated within the ephemeral nationalistic boundaries of Southeast Asia. Our screenings for the month of June to July is curated by Toby Wu. Wu…
Exhibition run: 23 June – 15 September 2021 The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI) New York, launched do it (MCAD Manila) online last 13 May 2021, an exhibition where written instructions by artists are interpreted anew. How this project reimagines the exhibition format as flexible…
Workshop dates: May 15, 22, & 29 2021 (Saturday sessions)Deadline of submission: 8 May 2021 Have more structure and guidance in your writing life by joining a fiction-writing workshop at MCAD. To be facilitated by TRESE series writer Budjette Tan, the workshop will focus on horror and will be held for three (3) Saturdays, beginning…
PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, 20 February 2021, 1PMOnline Workshop | General Public Haegue Yang’s Totem Robots were included as a single installation in her Arrivals exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. While referencing the human form with the clothing rack used, the relation to function of domestic and commercial objects such as hairpieces, a sink strainer, metal…
PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, 27 February 2021 | 2 PM Online Workshop | General Public Haegue Yang’s study visits to the Philippines enabled the artist to learn about binakol, an indigenous textile from the provinces of Ilocos and Abra. Woven using pedal looms, the textile features a design that represents the waves of the sea and is believed…
PRESS RELEASE Friday, 29 January 2021, 2 PMOnline Tour | General Public MCAD’s FSL Tour moves online. Led by interpreters from Benilde’s School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies, an online Filipino Sign Language tour of Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern will take place on 29 January, 2 PM. Registration required. About the exhibition…
