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…

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.

In the ‘moving painting’ From Sea to Dawn (2016), which is currently featured in MCAD’s exhibition titled Constructions of Truths, the artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian focus on some of the most urgent issues of today, which echo a long and recurring history of iconoclasm and migration issues.

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Filipino playwright, novelist and writer Dean Francis Alfar lead MCAD’s four-hour Worldmaking through Speculative Fiction workshop last November 16  that had both beginners and published writers focusing on the unusual genre of speculative fiction. The group worked on the prompts given by Mr. Alfar, who is an advocate for ‘spec fic’ which is a growing…