How do you sign “museum tour” in Filipino Sign Language? Last 4 October, MCAD conducted a museum tour for students of the Benilde Deaf School. Led by the museum’s invigilator and an interpreter, the works of Mel O’Callaghan (Australia), Laurent Grasso (France), Suzanne Treister (UK) and Pamela Rosenkranz (Switzerland) were discussed.
Building on content presented within Mel O’Callaghan’s (Australia) work titled Centre of the Centre, MCAD conducted Verde Island Adventure in Recycled Art, a talk and workshop last 27 September. Joal Ascalon and Zach Garcia of the SEA (Science, Education and Advocacy) Institute enlightened students, creatives and young professionals on the unique food web of the…
How can a rhythmic breathing ritual influence human consciousness? Last 22 September, Mel O’Callaghan’s (Australia) work titled Respire, Respire immersed a 200 strong audience from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centers with her 20 minute performance that uses “breath as a material form, accumulating and reverberating…
MCAD’s Print Art of the Plant Kingdom, a half-day printmaking workshop held last 14 September, was inspired by HFT The Gardener, a work by Suzanne Treister which features botanical prints. Facilitated by Benjie Cabrera and Mars Bugaoan of the Philippine Association of Printmakers, the workshop taught participants the history of Botanical Illustration which was widely…
Gandahar May 10 & 11 12:00 PM and 3:00 pm Directed by Rene Laloux 82 minutes Based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s novel Les Hommes-machines Contre Gandahar. Sylvain’s investigation leads him to discover the link between past and present. Flatlands May 17 & 18 12:00 PM and 3:00 PM Directed by Ladd Ehlinger Jr 95 minutes Based…
Editor, writer and filmmaker Erwin Romulo curates this months screenings, the films complement MCAD’s current exhibition ‘the center will not hold’. These films look into the interrelation of film and migration, and forms of subverting, engaging, rethinking, proposing and resisting a challenging present. Balikbayan #1 April 3, 5,& 7 Directed by Kidlat Tahimik Kidlat Tahimik…
MCAD’s screenings for the month of March is curated by editor, write and filmmaker Erwin Romulo, the film screenings complement MCAD’s current exhibition ‘the center will not hold’. These films look into the interrelation of film and migration, and forms of subverting, engaging, rethinking, proposing and resisting a challenging present. Yield March 20, 22, 24…
Acts of Life is a critical research residency initiated by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila with the support of the Goethe-Institutes in Singapore and Manila. At the heart of the programme is a commitment to critical research of the rapidly changing landscape of the…
Can you believe it’s almost the end of the year? With Christmas right around the corner we can’t help but feel excited. To get everyone in a festive spirit, we’ve chosen 3 Christmas films to screen on December. Arthur Christmas 2011 | British-American | PG | 1hr 37min Every year, Santa and his army of…
For the month of November, we will be screening back-to-back episodes from the documentary television series, How It’s Made. The show explores how the everyday objects or products we seldom stop to think about are made. In each episode, viewers learn how many common items – such as chocolate mints, skeletal replicas, pet nail trimmers,…
