Thursday, 19 November 2020, 3PMOnline Event | General Public What does it mean to observe and to observe with a purpose? What does one need to practice in order to be a skilled observer or a trained observer? This aspect of observation is plugged into disciplines like anthropology and processes such as the scientific method. …

This event has been rescheduled forTuesday, 17 November 2020, 3 PMThursday, 12 November 2020, 3 PMOnline Event | General Public First in the series on art and observation, this talk features Gabby Lichauco, founder and curator of NEWFOLK, a creative platform for designers, artists and producers that exhibit innovation in the use of homegrown mediums. In 2005, he…

MCAD Platforms:
Borderlands

Wednesday, 11 November 2020, 1 PMOnline Screening | General Public MCAD Platforms presents Borderlands, an episode from Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, a US-based television series that focuses exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States and around the world. The documentary sheds light on the borderland between the United States…

PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 3 PMOnline Talk | General Public Engineering and artisanship are features in the works of artist Haegue Yang in the exhibition Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern. Made in collaboration with S.C. Vizcarra, the works, with a number of them commissioned for the exhibition, showcase Philippine materials and techniques developed and…

PRESS RELEASE Thursday, 08 October 2020Online event | General PublicWatch the Live stream here. 8 PM (Manila)9 PM (Seoul)1 PM (UK)8 AM (Toronto) Cross-continental Conversations in The Cone of Uncertainty is a panel conversation gathering four curators from across the globe involved in mounting exhibitions of artist Haegue Yang, to speak about the challenges of…

PRESS RELEASESept 9 – 30, 2020, Online Screenings & DiscussionsGeneral Public Highlighting the difference offered by recorded documentation and oral history in the appreciation of performance art and moving image, MCAD Platforms presents the works of artists Lena Cobangbang, Katya Guerrero and Jean Marie Syjuco, along with discussions on the artists and their works. Curated…

Screenings

PRESS RELEASE Online Screenings | General Public19 and 26 August 20202 September 2020 Spend time with us and watch another session of SCREENINGS, the museum’s platform supporting its programs. We’re featuring three past public programs that explore curatorial studies; views on Biennales, and cultural and political institutions; and the processes involved in turning ideas into…

In this online workshop, filmmaker Anya Zulueta from Benilde’s Digital Filmmaking Program introduced teens to the techniques of film production. She began the session by distinguishing the three main storytellers of filmmaking—the screenwriter, the director, and the editor. She explained how, in the hands of these three key figures, a story conceptualized from reality would…

Stories could be found at the core of an artist’s creation, whether it was a historical piece or an example of new media. In this workshop, children ages 8 to 13 learned how to tell stories using video with the community-based initiative Lost Frames as guides. The group piqued the children’s imagination, tapping first unto…