August 24, 2015
VENICE—The Philippine Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale has appeared on several lists of not-to-miss spaces for its thought-provoking theme, “Tie a String around the World.”
Curator Patrick Flores, who came up with the theme, says it deals with world-making and the formation of empires.
If they give themselves enough time, visitors get to peel away layer upon layer of the current Philippine situation as presented by its featured artists: Manuel Conde, Carlos “Botong” Francisco, Manny Montelibano and José Tence Ruiz.
Flores agrees […]
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August 24, 2015
It’s an hour and a half before the event and David Medalla, the internationally-acclaimed Filipino artist slated to grace the Palazzo Mora for a performance titled “Pangarap sa Panglao,” is nowhere to be found. Adam Nankervis, artist and longtime Medalla collaborator, has called to say he lost Medalla on the walk to the Palazzo and that the 77-year-old artist is in physical pain. “It’s his back,” Nankervis tells me later. “He never lets on but I know him and I […]
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August 22, 2015
Globally renowned Filipino artist David Medalla’s performance at the Philippine Pavilion on August 20 was an ode to his country and the traditions he grew up with, a saga that starts from his memories as a child before the Japanese-American war that ravaged his hometown of Mabini in Ermita, Manila.
The seminal artist known for being a pioneer of kinetic and participatory art said that performance art cannot be explained in its entirety. “If I tell you, then what’s the point […]
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August 21, 2015
Philippine eagles are critically endangered animals and it is unlawful for anyone to take the life of endangered species.
Senator Loren Legarda stressed this point as she condemned the recent killing of a Philippine eagle named “Pamana” that was found dead in Mount Hamiguitan Range, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Davao Oriental.
Pamana was found dead on August 16 with a gunshot wound in the chest. The Philippine eagle is considered as one of the biggest, rarest and most powerful […]
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August 21, 2015
The heavy rains hitting Metro Manila almost every week has exposed anew a dirty habit of many Filipinos: the indiscriminate throwing plastic trash that lead to clogged drainage systems and pollution of marine environment.
At about this time year after year, the problem of flooding keeps coming back even as many realize that the perennial dilemma is also indicative of an aberration in our society: an undisciplined lot whose apathy is the primary cause of clogged waterways and, on the other […]
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