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Latest Article: THE FLOW FROM MOUNT BANAHAW TO THE VENICE BIENNALE

It was a dream for me to see the Venice Biennale, the so-called Olympics of the Arts. Finally, this year, that dream has become a reality. The experience has become even more meaningful as I marvel at the work of a poet curator I have known since our youthful college years, Carlos Quijon Jr., and the artist whom I have always admired for his brilliant theoretical insights that spring from humble…

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Latest Essay: Sea People and their buoyant ontology

Jon Cuyson is one of the artists who continue to challenge the way I imagine and perceive the world, literature, and visual art. Through his artistic strength, exhibitions like his become a source of joy, inviting us to reconsider and rethink our poetic relationships with the sea, water, and the ocean at large. With “Taong Dagat,” which will run until November 16 at UP Vargas Museum, this…

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Grayscale Pessimism

While this work is about pessimism, I am happy to share this essay and reflect on the complexity and affective depth of the drawings in Lyra Garcellano’s recent exhibition entitled Land, Labor, Life: Tracing ‘Progress’ in Selected Notes at Finale Art File. It is a show that allows me to learn about the power of drawings and, at the same time, how Garcellano, as an artist, engages pessimistically…

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Great Time in Croatia & Slovenia

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When We Melt Together

It is such a pleasure to have finished an essay during my birthday month. Here is my new essay, When We Melt Together, about Viviana Riccelli’s show titled, Chaos, at Galleria Duemila, which will run until the 13th of April.

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Colliding Scapes of Happiness

Happy to write about the works and the exhibition of the amazing artists from the Mind Salad Collective at bunso gallery. It was lovely to work again with CoverStory and Ma’am Chato Garcellano! Here is the link to the essay.

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A Kapihan Forum Organized by UP Anthropological Society Applicants 23A

See you all tomorrow!

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Modular Imagined Community: A New Essay for January 2024

For those who are interested to take a look at this essay, you may download it via this link. Let us begin a conversation on this recent urban development!

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Curating Around Islands

The Philippine Contemporary Art Network, the UP Vargas Museum, and the Japan Foundation Manila in cooperation with Orange Project present the exhibition Curating Around Islands, which will be on view at the 2F Gallery of the Orange Project in Bacolod from 23 September to 24 October 2023. Curating Around Islands is the outcome of a curatorial development workshop organized by the Japan Foundation…

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Line of Sight @ Galleria Duemila

It’s an exciting time in Pasay, Manila as the Galleria Duemila exhibits a group show entitled, Line of Sight, curated by Jon Cuyson, which he organized by including artists such as Eric Ramos Guerrero, Nice Buenaventura, and Karl Castro. I became fortunate to be invited by the curator to write the exhibition notes and share my insights on their work that appeared in the catalog of the show. For…

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Dyesebel Swam to Singapore

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Finally! It's time for the Comparative Literature in Asia! See you all on the 14th!

Finally! It’s time for the Comparative Literature in Asia! See you all on the 14th!

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Mourning for the Vulgos: A Commemoration of the Death Anniversary of Don Belong

Mourning for the Vulgos: A Commemoration of the Death Anniversary of Don Belong

The UP CSSP Folklore Studies Program presents the 7th Don Belong De Los Reyes Lecture, “Mourning for the Vulgos: Performing a Funerary Rite for Isabelo de los Reyes” which will be delivered by Prof. Jomar Cuartero on October 10, 2022, Monday, at 2:30 pm via zoom (see zoom registration below). The lecture series started in 2014 in honor of the father of Philippine folklore, Isabelo de los Reyes…

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Savoring the Last Morsel

Savoring the Last Morsel

I’m relieved that most of us are safe from the recent typhoon. It’s great to put this out as well and write about Renan Laru-an‘s recent curatorial work in Prague, Biennale Ve věci umění / Matter of Art, and an archival discovery of Rene O. Villanueva‘s animation, Nguyamyam.

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'Necessary Contexts' and the Question of Being Human

‘Necessary Contexts’ and the Question of Being Human

https://coverstory.ph/necessary-contexts-and-the-question-of-being-human-in-a-world-that-is-becoming-less-and-less-humane/

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Exciting Week!

I’ll be participating in the workshop session with a new project entitled, “Following the Lumba-lumba.”

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Excited for today! Join us in this folklore conference! Our panel will be in the afternoon at 3:30 PM!

Excited for today! Join us in this folklore conference! Our panel will be in the afternoon at 3:30 PM!