Untitled, 2011
(5) 8"x12"
Digital C-print
Accumulated trash/objects inside my bag during my travels
part of the exhibition
http://nothing2declare2011.wordpress.com/
curated by Karen Flores
at Blanc Compound
Around 50 artists
around the world that responded to the Call for Proposals in 2010 were selected
by the NTD Board of organizers and whose works will be shown successively at
Blanc Compound starting from October 18 till November 12, 2011; UP Jorge Vargas
Museum (November 18 2011 to January 7, 2012) and Yuchengco Museum (November 16,
2011 to January 29, 2012).
These artists will
come to Manila to participate in a project with a participatory, collaborative
and makeshift framework, aiming to contribute to contemporary discourses on
migration. “Migration” broadly refers to movement of people not just across
waters, land, and air, but also across immediate, virtual and hyper
realities—and shifting societies. Focusing on those who have “nothing to
declare,” the project positions itself at the margins – a position that is a
source of intervention and strength, of subterfuge and resistance, of
constraint as well as change.
Kicking
off at a private gallery, NTD thrives in a blanc space, a white cube
which could also be white space, characterized by an absence of color that
connotes not just a seeming neutrality, but an open-endedness that could
effectively ground a query into destinies and destinations. Migrations
can be cyclical and serial; thus, individual lives become similarly marked by
centers and stations. And as the NTD curatorial brief states, migration
can also refer not only to movement of people across borders but to migrations
of form, realities and spaces.
NTD
was initiated and head curated by Flaudette May Datuin (Department of Art
Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines head),
associate curators Leo Abaya (Vargas Museum, UP College of Fine Arts faculty),
Claro Ramirez (Yuchengco Museum),and Karen Ocampo Flores (visual artist and
cultural worker). NTD was organized by Datuin, Josephine Turalba (Dean, School
of Fine Arts and Design, Philippine Women’s University) and Precious Leano
(Executive Director, Filipino Visual Arts and Design Rights Organization or
FILVADRO).
Documentation of the exhibition:
http://nothing2declare2011.wordpress.com/blanc/
