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Maria Taniguchi’s work, Untitled (crystal palace + gauguin) is composed of a slideshow of images taken at the Crystal Palace Dinosaur Court in London combined with a dialogue that describes an unnamed painting (which we know to be Gauguin’s Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, 1897).
Becoming Alluvium by artist Thao Nguyen Phan (Vietnam) builds on her ongoing research into the Mekong River and the artists observations regarding the environmental changes surrounding it due to the expansion of agriculture, overfishing and the economic migration of farmers to urban areas, the work puts particular emphasis on the impact of environmental change and the impact on human lives.
Luay Fadhil’s Scribe is one of the featured works in MCAD’s exhibition titled Constructions of Truths. The work portrays the narrative of a grieving man and his interactions with a scribe which is predominant in the culture of Iraq.
Unique among the works included in the exhibition Constructions of Truths, MCAD’s current show is La Venganza del Elefante (The revenge of the elephant) (2007) by Mexican artist Minerva Cuevas. The work is a slide presentation using vintage (ca. 1897) illustrations by Wilhelm Busch, a 19th-century German artist regarded as one of the founders of modern-day comics. A common theme for Busch’s stories was ‘bad behaving animals,‘ with his drawings accompanied by a descriptive text.
Man In Suit, 2009 To mock our perceptions of success, Martha Atienza’s Man in Suit (2008), one of the works included in Constructions of Truths, MCAD’s current exhibition, features several men from Bantayan Island, Cebu, and the train tracks in Manila going about their daily routines dressed in a black suit. We see a man…
In 2012, Ho Tzu Nyen began conducting research at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong for his project The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (cdosea). The question he posed was so complex that the project transformed into years of research: What constitutes the unity of Southeast Asia? — a region never unified by language, religion or political power.
Insight: Moving Image, Philippines proved popular last February 27, as a crowd of artists, filmmakers, students, arts professionals, curators and enthusiasts packed out and filled MCAD’s Multimedia Room.
Artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins (United States) film titled “This Action Lies” explores the limits of observation, about staring very hard at something while listening to something else. It unfolds as a mistrustful monologue analysing a common and underappreciated commercial product elevated through cinema to the status of a near-platonic form.
Focusing on some of the countries leading moving image projects, speakers Manny Montelibano, Lisa Chikiamco, Rica Estrada, Tenten Mina, Merv Espina and Shireen Seno will be joined by moderator, Ricky Orellana from the Southeast-Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) as they explore collecting, archiving and exhibiting video and film within the Philippines.
