27 February 2020, 3pm
MCAD Multimedia Room
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. The discussion will cover the speakers’ past and present projects, including the collections of the Institute of the Moving Image of University of St La Salle in Bacolod, the projects of Visual Pond, and Kalampag Tracking Agency with its participatory archive.
This event is free and open to the public. To reserve a slot, please email mcad@benilde.edu.ph or call 82305100 loc 3897-98.
Speakers
Manny Montelibano
Manny Montelibano’s work is focused on the psychology of contemporary socio-political, economic and religious structures. The artist probes through these subjects’s subtleties and intricacies by way of video or inter-media installations – often exposing macroscopic realities through extracts of local culture. A flavor of social realism intravenously makes its way to his works, although the entirety of his oeuvre is not so rigidly bound within it. Montelibano is greatly concerned with the actual process of conveyance, very much evident in the creative and informed utilization of technical elements in his installations and editing techniques applied to his videos.
Mariano “Manny” G. Montelibano III (b. 1971) lives and works in Bacolod, the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City, where he is currently Director of the Institute of the Moving Image. He also received his training through experience as technical director at University of St. La Salle in Bacolod and various film projects. He is an active cultural worker in the Philippines, especially in the Visayas region, affiliated with various organizations such as the National Commission for Culture and the Arts of the Philippines, Black Artists in Asia Association and VIVA EXCON Organization. He received the Garbo sa Bisaya Award at the VIVA ExCon 2016. In the Philippines, his works have been exhibited in the National Museum of the Filipino People, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Museo Iloilo, Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibit and Conference, Vargas Museum, Galleria Duemila, NOVA Gallery, Museo Negrense de La Salle, Fort Santiago-Intramuros and at the Ateneo Art Gallery where he is represented in its collection. He has also been part of exhibitions in Seoul, Korea; Hong Kong, Spain, Germany, New Zealand, Canada, USA, France and around South East Asia. In 2015, he represented the Philippines at the 56th Venice Biennale.
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Lisa Chikiamco
Clarissa Chikiamco has been working as a curator at National Gallery Singapore since 2012. Her exhibitions at National Gallery include Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century, A Fact Has No Appearance: Art Beyond the Object and Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna. Prior to moving to Singapore, Chikiamco worked as an independent curator and was the acquisition curator for Ateneo Art Gallery’s inaugural collection of video art in 2012. Together with Rica Estrada and Tenten Mina, she co-founded the festival End Frame Video Art Project in 2006. She curated End Frame’s third edition from 2011-2013, which consisted of seven solo exhibitions with different artists across various venues in Manila. She is currently a PhD student in Film Studies at King’s College London, writing her thesis on Philippine artists’ moving image.
Rica Estrada
Rica Estrada is a museum-worker based in Manila, Philippines. She graduated with a BFA in Art Management from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2005 and is currently finishing her Masters in Art Studies, Major in Art History, at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Estrada is, at present, Officer-in-Charge of the Visual Arts and Museum Division of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Independently, she is Vice President of the Association of Greater Manila Area Museums, and is co-founder of Visual Pond and Teaching Exhibitions.
Tenten Mina
Marinella Andrea “Tenten” C. Mina is one of the co-founders and the Treasurer of Visual Pond. She co-organized several projects of the group such as End Frame Video Art Project (25 September – 4 October 2006), and End Frame Video Art Project II: Daily Disclosures (12-16 October 2007). Due to the success of Visual Pond’s first two projects sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, they were was asked to assist in one of its major annual projects. Tenten, together with Rica and Lisa, became co-organizers and members of the managing body for Sinemaleta, the 2008 NCCA National Arts Month Cinema Committee project.
Tenten is currently a Senior Researcher at the Ayala Museum, specializing in tradeware ceramics and indigenous Philippine textiles. She obtained her BFA in Arts Management from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2005 and is currently working on her Masters in Archaeology at the University of the Philippines – Archaeological Studies Program. She has 15 years of experience working at Ayala Museum, working in different fields from tours & education to event management and collections management. She is a member of the Oriental Ceramic Society of the Philippines and of the Kapisanan Arkeologist ng Pilipinas, Inc. and has presented papers on Roberto T. Villanueva Collection at local and international conferences.
Merv Espina
Merv Espina is an artist and researcher based in Quezon City, Metro Manila. His investigations delve into archives and questions knowledge-production in an attempt to mark cracks in discourse and history so the future doesn’t trip over them. He helps run Green Papaya Art Projects, an independent arts initiative founded in 2000, now in the process of tying loose ends as it prepares for closure in 2021. He’s also one of the organizers of WSK Festival of the Recently Possible, an experimental music and media art festival founded in 2008. In 2014, he started the Kalampag Tracking Agency with artist Shireen Seno, an initiative that explores the screening program as participatory archive of Philippine experiments with the moving image. He was part of the curatorial team of SUNSHOWER: Contemporary art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now (2017) at the Mori Art Museum and National Art Centre Tokyo, the largest survey of Southeast Asian artists to be exhibited in Japan. More recently, he was one of the curators of VIVA ExCon 2018, the 15th edition of the longest-running arts biennial in the Philippines.
Shireen Seno
Shireen Seno is an artist and filmmaker whose work addresses memory, history, and image- making, often in relation to the idea of home. She is a recipient of the 2018 Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She started out in film shooting stills for Lav Diaz before going on to direct her debut feature, Big Boy (2012), shot entirely on Super 8, about a boy whose parents believe the taller he is, the better. Her second film, Nervous Translation (2018), is about a girl who finds out about a pen that can translate the thoughts and feelings of nervous people. It won several awards and screened at MoMA as part of New Directors/New Films, at the Tate Modern as part of their Artists’ Cinema programme, and at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum for Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions.
Curatorial projects include Christian Tablazon’s solo exhibition ‘And the World Thickens with Texture Instead of History’, Takahiko Iimura’s ‘Circle+Square’ in Manila, with Merv Espina, INSTRUCTIONS: a ‘video without video’ exhibit for PABLO Gallery’s 10th anniversary, and The Kalampag Tracking Agency, a program of experimental film and video from the Philippines over the past 30 years.
She and John Torres run Los Otros, a Manila-based studio and platform dedicated to the intersections of film and art. They recently had their first solo exhibition together, a collaborative installation and screening program called ‘Cloudy with a chance of coconuts’, at Portikus in Frankfurt. She is also part of Tito & Tita, a film and art collective whose work spans installation, film, photography and collective actions. Seno is currently a Visiting Faculty member at the Philippine High School for the Arts.
Moderator
Ricky Orellana
He has worked variously as director, animator, film editor, sound recordist and art director on short and feature films, and documentaries. He began to make films while studying architecture at the University of Santo Tomas, and made experimental films at a workshop by German filmmaker Christoph Janetzko. His representative work is Sa Maynila, which won the Best Documentary award at the 3rd Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video in 1989, and Best Student Film Documentary at the 8th FAP Student Motion Picture Awards in 1990. He also directed the documentary films on Philippine National Artists Arturo Rogerio Luz and Maestro Lucio San Pedro. He is a board member of the Animation Council of the Philippines (ACPI) and the Samahan ng mga Filipinong Arkivista para sa Pelikula (SOFIA). He is currently the Audiovisual Archive Head at MOWELFUND and the Secretary-General at SEAPAVAA. He also teaches part time at the College of Saint Benilde School of Design & Arts handling Experimental Animation and Scriptwriting for Animation. He received a SEAPAVAA Fellow award at the 21st Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association Conference held in Manila last April 2017.
