House of Mizrahi PH On its 6 th year, Fringe Manila continues to champion experimental art, daring all and baring all. Text and photos by Paolo Vergara Draper Startup House in Poblacion, Makati, witnessed the February 12 launch of Fringe Festival Manila 2020, the local yet independently-organized iteration of the international staging ground for uncurated,…
As the local art scene diversifies, established and emerging galleries and groups find ever-increasing collaboration. Text by Paolo Vergara | Photos courtesy of Fringe MNL The worldwide Fringe festival has come to represent the uncurated, the avant-garde, and the untested corners in the art world, serving as a staging ground for works that won’t be…
The third annual Manila Student Film Festival will take place on 01 February 2020 at International School Manila. The festival is the creative celebration of young filmmakers in the Philippines, providing an audience for upcoming talent and inspiring future filmmakers. This year, 27 films were shortlisted for the final competition. The shortlisted flicks come from…
By Franchesca Lesaca During the press conference for the Mindanao Art Fair, Exhibit and Conference (MindanaoArt), Vim Nadera – award-winning poet and writer, and former director of the Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) – posed a rhetorical question to everyone gathered: “Where is Mindanao in Philippine art?” The first Mindanao Art Fair This…
On its 8th year, the Mandalá Art Festival continues as a bulwark for artists around Central Luzon Text by Paolo Vergara Pulilan, Bulacan is a setting straight out of an early Hidalgo arcadia: sprawling with clean brooks, breeze-swept fields, and trees bearing ripe fruit and cool shade – scenes unfamiliar to generations born in the centers…
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Keisuke Ozawa At the 13th VIVA ExCon in Bacolod, the curatorial forum initiated a discussion about current curatorial practices in the Philippines and around the world. Patricia Tumang spoke with some of the visiting curators to ask about their curatorial practices and approaches, and their thoughts on VIVA ExCon, past and present. Read the full…