Exhibition Opening | Semblance/Presence by Renato Habulan and Alfredo Esquillo Jr.
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| Renato Habulan and Alfredo Esquillo Jr., Mga Hinirang (Chosen People), film still, 2012 |
Date: 29 June 2012, Friday
Time: 6.30pm - 9.00pm
Venue: NUS Museum
Free Admission.
To register, please email museum@nus.edu.sg or call 6516 8817 by 28 May 2012
Guest-of-Honour
Hon. Ambassador Minda Calaguian-Cruz
Embassy of the Philippines (Singapore
Programme
6.00pm: Arrival of Guests
6.30pm: Arrival of Guest-of-Honour
6.45pm: Speeches
7.30pm: "Pasyonista" (Passionist) - Performance by Alfredo Esquillo Jr.
About Semblance/Presence Combining Jose Rizal's Quiapo Fair (first published 1891) and artworks produced by artists Renato Habulan and Alfredo Esquillo Jr., the exhibition traces the life-worlds of Plaza Miranda, which fronts the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church), one of the main churches of the City of Manila. Considering how Plaza Miranda acts as a site for numerous interests, ranging from political and cultural discourse to established traditions of fortune telling, the exhibition connects both artists and their materials to not just as something being observed, but also to the conditions of their observations, where the very act of observation becomes an end that at once implicates but also detaches. By some oblique process, presence also becomes semblance, leading to question, if any act of observation can ever remain unmediated.
The exhibition is co-organized by NUS Museum and Artesan Gallery + Studio. It is also supported by Tin-aw Art Management Inc.
Event photos
About Semblance/Presence Combining Jose Rizal's Quiapo Fair (first published 1891) and artworks produced by artists Renato Habulan and Alfredo Esquillo Jr., the exhibition traces the life-worlds of Plaza Miranda, which fronts the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church), one of the main churches of the City of Manila. Considering how Plaza Miranda acts as a site for numerous interests, ranging from political and cultural discourse to established traditions of fortune telling, the exhibition connects both artists and their materials to not just as something being observed, but also to the conditions of their observations, where the very act of observation becomes an end that at once implicates but also detaches. By some oblique process, presence also becomes semblance, leading to question, if any act of observation can ever remain unmediated.
The exhibition is co-organized by NUS Museum and Artesan Gallery + Studio. It is also supported by Tin-aw Art Management Inc.
Event photos
Event video
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