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Certain Maladies: Leonardo Aguinaldo’s ‘Side Effect’

by Paula Acuin - February 26, 2018 - 12:00am

Leonardo Aguinaldo’s exhibition for the Art Fair, “Side Effect,” borrows terminology from prescription drug labels to characterize the subjectiveness of healing and illness.

Trickie Lopa, Lisa Periquet & Dindin Araneta: Are we curators? Or are we enablers of an art fair experience?

by Paula Acuin - February 26, 2018 - 12:00am

This is all about the process of setting up the fair, an opaque and exotic process to most.

Objects of struggle in Kiri Dalena’s art

by Paula Acuin - September 24, 2017 - 4:00pm

‘In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing, about the dark times.’

Not a review, but a review: Notes on Roxlee’s ‘alphabet’

by Paula Acuin - May 8, 2017 - 12:00am

Roxlee’s ‘lazy’ film, as he calls it, condenses a reflexive, personal, political and hilarious critique into a consistently astute and irreverent alphabet.

Shapes of filmmaking to come

by Paula Acuin - April 10, 2017 - 12:00am

The “...and Action! Asia # 03” short film screening last month was the culminating event of a 13-day exchange program involving 19 mostly undergraduate film student-participants from the Philippines,...

Pop to Noise: Interview with WSK

by Paula Acuin - February 12, 2017 - 12:00am

Erwin Romulo, curator for WSK’s exhibition for Art Fair Philippines 2017, shares how the practices of the WSK collective, while generally marked by its interest in “recently possible” media (what...

Everything in its orbit: Historiography and the masterpiece

by Paula Acuin - February 12, 2017 - 12:00am

Broadly speaking, at an art fair people are buying art, often expensive art, because they think it is good. But how do we know when art is “good”? Who says it is good? Do we trust them?

Annals of a tick

by Paula Acuin - February 11, 2017 - 9:36pm

Dex Fernandez’s Garapata suggests an artistic practice that is keen on collective experience. Employing Instagram and Facebook to document, present and promote Garapata’s activities further underline...

Norma Absing Respicio’s ‘Journey of a Thousand Shuttles’

by Paula Acuin - October 10, 2016 - 12:00am

Knowledge on the production relations, sourcing of materials, computation of the total value of the creative work, including labor cost, and the means or ways of distribution, dissemination or marketing can enrich...

Keeping the trail warm: Leslie de Chavez’s ‘Stirring the Ashes’

by Paula Acuin - September 19, 2016 - 12:00am

Memorializing draws on a tense and delicate process.

Robredo visits victims of Davao night market blast

by Paula Acuin - September 4, 2016 - 6:46pm

Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday morning flew to Davao City to visit the victims of the night market blast.

Strain and spectacle: Brian Gothong Tan

by Paula Acuin - August 29, 2016 - 12:00am

In the music video “Imelda Goes to Singapore,” artist Brian Gothong Tan recasts the eponymous heroine as a domestic worker in the affluent city-state.

Requisite reveries in Singapore’s International Festival of the Arts

by Paula Acuin - August 8, 2016 - 12:00am

Fiercely ambitious and thought-out, this year’s Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA) works around the theme of “potentialities” as opening and conjecture towards the future.

Free diving

by Paula Acuin - July 4, 2016 - 12:00am

In fact, meaning here seems to be incidental and deeply personal. The artist, Terue Yamauchi, seems to tell us: the affect (dating) is there, the stories are there — I leave it up to you.

Crafting a pantheon

by Paula Acuin - June 13, 2016 - 12:00am

Nine awardees were belatedly conferred National Artist. Four of the awards (those of Alcuaz, Conde, Francisco and Santos) have been on hold, three of them posthumously, for seven years —the result of a T.R.O....

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