“Transpersonal, instructions” opens at the UP Vargas Museum on 14 December 2018, Friday at 6pm. Transpersonal activities invite participants to experiment with the boundaries between accepted notions of authorship and audience expectation—to play with the performativity of their roles and rethink the various modes of attention they are setting up. The “instructions” weave together a transpersonal, primary initiative of cultural and transnational exchange, that repeatedly encounter a restless ecology of contemporary art. Transpersonal, instructions looks with particular, collaborative attention, at non-Western difference and under–represented geographies in art like the communities working in the Philippines today. Continue reading
Lost Paradise Marta Moreno Muñoz 13 October – 16 November 2018, extended until 30 November Opening reception: 13 October, Saturday at 6pm 1F West Wing Room UP Vargas Museum The Lost Paradise multi-screen video installation will be premiered at UP Vargas Museum in October 2018. A project produced in 2013 under an artist residency at … Continue reading
Project Island Hopping – Reversing Imperialism: Lander | 13 October- 16 November 2018 |
Curated by Dar-Kuen Wu in collaboration withPatrick D. Flores featuring contemporary artists from the Philippines and Taiwan Continue reading
L-R, clockwise- Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia featured artists— Amanda Heng (Singapore), Roberto Feleo (Philippines), Anusapati (Indonesia), Do Hoang Tuong (Vietnam), Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysia), Yasmin Jaidin (Brunei), Min Thein Sung (Myanmar), Vuth Lyno (Cambodia), Jedsada Tangtrakulwong (Thailand), Savanhdary Vongpoothorn (Laos) Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia Venue: Metropolitan Museum of Manila, University of the Philippines Vargas Museum, and Yuchengco … Continue reading
In cooperation with Museo ng Baliwag 3F Sensorium, UP Vargas Museum Exhibition Run: 26 June to 27 July 2018 Opening Reception: 26 June, Tuesday at 4pm Bridges: Mariano Ponce & Jorge Vargas looks into the lives of Mariano Ponce and Jorge Vargas, who both served as representatives of the Philippine government to Japan in times … Continue reading
