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Revisiting Modernity | Urban Legend

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Revisiting Modernity | Urban Legend
3/F Galleries

The UP Vargas Museum in cooperation with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) opens a double exhibition on 23 February, 6:00 PM, at the 3/F Galleries.

Archival photographs from the collection of the Sentro ng Arkitekturang Filipino probe the building projects initiated by the Marcos regime in Revisiting Modernity to project an image of progress and national renewal. Through various images, the exhibition presents how the Marcos administration consciously utilized state architecture to legitimize its authoritarian regime and propagate the myth of modernity among its subjects.

In Urban Legend, New York-based Filipino photographer Lawrence Dizon Sumulong explores the Parthenon-inspired Manila Film Center, one of the buildings constructed at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Complex. Sumulong’s works focus on the current effort to revive the forgotten film palace as the site of the Amazing Show, a Las Vegas-style theater act featuring transvestite performers.

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About Jorge B. Vargas Museum

It aims to preserve its collection donated by Jorge B. Vargas and conducts research, exhibitions, publications, and educational programs. The Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center houses a museum, archives, and library devoted to the Philippine history, art, and culture from the late 19th century until the post-war era. Its main beneficiaries are students, faculty, researchers and scholars of the Philippines and Asia.

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Happening next Thursday at the UP Vargas Museum: #BAPArtistTalk with @hitmaangurung and @sheelasha_rajbhandari • RSVP: vargasmuseum@up.edu.ph | 928-1927 • Kathmandu-based Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari are members of ArTree Nepal, an artist collective whose varied interdisciplinary practices are grounded in social practice, particularly responding to some of the most pressing social-political issues in Nepal including mass migration and women’s rights, among others. The artists will speak about their individual practice as well as how their collaborative work through ArTree Nepal with different individuals, including artisans, engineers, and writers initiates strategic grassroots interventions with the goal of fostering and empowering marginalized communities. • This talk is organized by @bellasartesprojects in partnership with @upvargasmuseum.
ADVISORY: UP Vargas Museum will be closed early at 4 PM today, 16 March 2019, for an event. Inquiries: vargasmuseum@up.edu.ph
Transpersonal, instructions closes today at 5pm. We thank everyone for visiting the exhibition. Image: Karrabing Collective Graffiti Dreaming #3 2018, Spray Paint on steel Kaingemerre (Sun) Penidjebhe (Star) Dreaming#2 2018, Installation
Vargas Conversations on Visualizing Sound Exhibition with Gerardo Tan, Dr. Felicidad A. Prudente, Sammy Buhle and Dr. Norma A. Respicio 14 March 2019, Thursday, 2:30 pm 1F Galleries UP Vargas Museum presents a conversation between Gerardo Tan, Felicidad Prudente, and Norma Respicio on the exhibition Visualizing Sound on March 14, 2019 at 2:30 pm at the 1F Galleries. Visualizing Sound is a collaborative exhibition which presents works between artist Gerardo Tan, musicologist Felicidad A. Prudente, and master weaver Sammy Buhle. The exhibition reflects on the translation of forms through the work Rendering, a video and audio documentation notated in modern sound symbols, which are then translated into visual images, and in turn interpreted in textile by the ikat method. Complementing this is another work by Tan titled Speaking in Tongue (inspired by an indigenous chant from Kalinga called sogna) that tries to articulate the production of vocal sounds resonating from a singer’s mouth. Thus, the exhibition Visualizing Sound becomes an intersection of modes rooted in tradition and enriched in multidisciplinary contexts. Join us as we create a broader understanding of how traditions and the contemporary setting harmonize through various forms of art. With exhibiting artist Gerardo Tan and Felicidad Prudente, together with insights from Norma A. Respicio who specializes in traditional art forms focusing on textiles, participate in learning transcribing from woven fabrics, articulating performance by presenting visuals, and portraying traditions through sound. Vargas Conversations: Visualizing Sound is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Vargas Museum at (+632) 981-8500 loc. 4024 (U.P. trunkline) or (+632) 928-1927, or send an email to vargasmuseum@up.edu.ph. You may also visit http://vargasmuseum.upd.edu.ph, like us on Facebook (fb.com/vargasmuseum.upd), and follow us on Twitter (@upvargasmuseum) for updates. Exhibition is extended until March 30, 2019 https://www.facebook.com/events/344010069548140/
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On 22 February 1987, the Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center was formally inaugurated. Today, UP Vargas Museum celebrates 32 years of museum work.

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