How do art and karaoke come together in a country who loves nothing more than good drinks and good time?
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| Filed under: Profiles | Tags: karaoke art project, Ling Quisumbing Ramilo, martinez art project, the philippines How do art and karaoke come together in a country who loves nothing more than good drinks and good time?
| Filed under: Profiles | Tags: ARTiculation, Mark Salvatus, the philippines, visual pond 
Yay! ARTiculation is a new series of webisodes on contemporary artists from the Philippines by Visual Pond. First of the series features rising talent Mark Salvatus.
| Filed under: Gallery | Tags: perhaps it was possible because, photography, silverlens, the philippines, wawi navarozza 
To truly discover the camera one must, in Wawi Navarroza’s words, “unlearn the ropes,” start from scratch, the utter violence of beginning once again.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: Claro Ramirez, Crucible Gallery, Multi-Media, No Pay Per View, the philippines 
By Eileen Legaspi- Ramirez
Philippines: Multimedia artist Claro Ramirez wryly comments on how individuals willfully withdraw from routine and render the metropolis desolate and motionless.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: bureau of jail management and penology, courtyard, do or die, manila city jail, Mark Salvatus, pablo gallery, prison riots, the philippines 
by Siddharta Perez
Manila City Jail revisited: Street artist Mark Salvatus plays both ethnographer and artist in his attempt at uncovering the prison gang riots of 2008.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: Everything is Sacred, installation, Norberto Roldan, religion, taksu, the philippines 
by Suraya Warden
Exhibition Review: Everything is Sacred, by Norberto Roldan at Taksu Gallery, strikes the viewer as straight from the heart, showing works by an artist whose contemplations have been successfully translated into visual art.
| Filed under: Essays | Tags: Al Cruz, art history, art scene, conceptual art, installation, non-curated exhibition, painting, review, richard koh, the philippines 
by Suraya Warden
Exhibition Review: Within eleven works of art, in a small space, under fluorescent lighting can be held vision, talent and active potential. Al Cruz at Richard Koh Fine Art.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: conceptual art, mag:net, nilo ilarde, site specificity, the philippines 
By Eva McGovern
On the last day of a recent trip to Manila, we went to see Nilo Ilarde’s exhibition Cold Cuts at gallery/cafe Mag:net in Quezon City. Ilarde is a mid career conceptual artist and curator known for his artistic interventions of internal gallery architecture.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: Malaysia, painting, superheroes, taksu, the philippines 
By Eva McGovern
I love super heroes. As a child, instead of your average imaginary friends, I had the League of Justice. Superman, Wonderwoman and Batman were my closest allies in fighting crime in the living room. Good times.
| Filed under: Profiles | Tags: conceptual art, the philippines 
by Simon Soon
Little has been said or theorised about conceptual practices in the region, much less of its history. Yet, this is what artist and research, Ringo Bunoan, sets out to do in ‘Archiving Roberto Chabet’, which is held in the Cellar Gallery and Basement B of University of Philippines Vargas Museum, from 3 March – 4 April 2009.