Business: Negros Museum Presents Killing Time
The Negros Museum, in celebration of the National Arts Month, presents KILLING TIME, a video art installation curated by Clarissa Chikiamco opening on February 8, 2012, 7:00PM at the Museum Lobby.
The video art contribution to Cinemarehiyon 2012 focuses on already existing work and includes two exhibitions: Killing Time and Gilubong ang Akong Pusod sa Dagat.
Killing Time, a group exhibition which opens at the Negros Museum on 8 February at 7 pm, features a selection of videos of Philippine artists which directly transacts with time, as either the subject of the video itself or as method. It also aims to concentrate on time as one of the most important topics of contemporary art, relevant particularly due to the unfolding of cinematic culture and the increasing technological progression which has reshaped the thoughts and experience of time in the past century.
The time-based exhibition offers a strong connection to engage filmmakers and target Cinemarehiyon audiences, who can perhaps discuss the parallels and divergences of artist approaches from those of the cinema. Artists whose works are included in Killing Time include Tad Ermitaño, Yason Banal, Kiri Dalena, Kaloy Olavides, Gerry Tan and Maria Taniguchi. The third edition of Cinemare-hiyon presents a special project on video art, an art form which crosses the fields of both the visual arts and cinema. Its inclusion in a Philippine film festival which focuses on the regional is fitting, for video art in the Philippine context can also be viewed as “regional” within the spheres of film and contemporary art. With very little research in the area, a growing but still low presence, as well as a vast lack in financial, production and material support, video art in the Philippines, it can be argued, still borders on the periphery.
The exhibit will be accompanied by essays by Cine-marehiyon 4’s video art curator Clarissa Chikiamco. The exhibit will run until the end of February.
For the exhibit opening, RSVP 0921330786109154-472885. For more information, please contact us at 7085080 | 4334764 | negros _museum96 @yahoo.com | negrosmuseum.blogspot.com.
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