Meeting at Panublion Museum

Panublion Museum in Roxas, the Philippines
Panublion Museum in Roxas, the Philippines

On 2 October 2018, a meeting on the project “Balay Sugilanon / Story House” was held at the Panublion Museum in Roxas. VIVA EXCON CAPIZ 2018 will be held from 8th November, and it has been nearly a month to launch the VIVA EXCON.

The project “Balay Sugilanon / Story House” is not my own project, but a collaboration project with local artists. Around twenty artists are involved in this project. We will do one project with the same theme. In this project, we will listen to various experiences and nostalgic memories about Lohas of the past from people gathering at the café next to Panublion Museum, and based on that interview we will create a museum of people in this area.

The theme of this meeting was an overall explanation, schedule and role sharing. The artists need to do various types of work on projects, interviewing, building museums and other constructions, painting portraits for interviewees, editing the documents, etc. Whether or not I can get along well, I am honestly very nervous. Fortunately, the artists who participate are all seriously working and are looking forward to the outcome of the project.

Artists in Roxas and Pilar
Artists in Roxas and Pilar
the meeting was held in the museum. photo by Jennifer Alba Perez Benliro
the meeting was held in the museum. photo by Jennifer Alba Perez Benliro

The Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018

The Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018
The Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018

The Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018 was held from 20 – 22 April 2018 in Lohas city, Cyprus, the Philippines. Artist-in-residence organisers from Southeast Asia (the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore) and East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan) participated in this conference. (1)

This conference was held as a related project of VIVA EXCON 2018 in Capiz (2). By the way, the first meeting is held in Rimbun Dahan (3) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2016.

The themes discussed at this year’s meeting are as follows.

  • State of Affairs: surveying the landscape and contexts of participating spaces and organizations
  • Building Structures: examining conceptual and operational formats and frameworks
  • Action and Opportunities: partnering and collaborating with international institutions within specific contexts
  • Liquid Infrastructures: inquiries on the potentials for community engagement and participation)
  • Sustainability and Resilience: inspecting the different junctures in creating and maintaining residency programs
The Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018
The Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018

Each participant is supposed to make a presentation by the theme that seems to be related at the request of the organiser, but in fact, it is mainly about the background of the organisation and the aspect of the residence I was able to know the concrete activities of AIR. At the end of the meeting, a roundtable group discussion was held. I exchanged views with various participants till late every day, it was a thrilling three days that kept talking all the time. (4)

The Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018
The Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018
  1. Japanese participants were AIR-H (Aomori), Art Center Ongoing (Tokyo), FIGYA (Osaka), Art Space Tetra (Fukuoka), Koganecho Area Management Center (Kanagawa) and Arcus Project (Ibaraki).
  2. VIVA EXCON (Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference) is an Art Biennial in the Visayas region, Philippines, which has been held since 1990. It will be held in November in 2018 at LOHAS city in Capiz.
    http://cargocollective.com/vxcapiz2018/LUPAD-Theme-of-VIVA-EXCON-CAPIZ-2018
    The reason why I participated in this conference because I was attending as a facilitator of the workshop hosted by VIVA EXCON at the same venue just before this point.
  3. Rimbun Dahan
    http://rimbundahan.org
  4. Link
    http://cargocollective.com/vxcapiz2018/Southeast-Asian-Art-Residencies-Meeting-2018

東南アジア・アートレジデンシー・ミーティング

2018年4月20日ー22日にThe Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018がフィリピン・カプス州ロハス市で開催された。東南アジア(フィリピン・マレーシア・インドネシア・タイ・ベトナム・香港・シンガポール)および東アジア(韓国・台湾・日本)のアーティストインレジデンス運営者がこのカンファレンスに参加。(1)

この会議はVIVA EXCON 2018 in Capiz(2)の関連事業として開催された。ちなみに、第一回の会議は2016年にマレーシア・クアラルンプールのRimbun Dahan(3)で開催されている。

今年の会議で議論されたテーマは以下のとおり。

  • 現状:各参加者組織の背景や現状、および活動状況の調査
  • 組織作り:コンセプトおよび運用形式と枠組みの検討
  • 行為と機会:限られた状況での国際的な組織への参加と協力
  • 流動的基盤整備:コミュニティとの関わりと参加の可能性
  • 持続性と回復力:AIRプログラムの構築と維持についての様々な接点の検証

各参加者は主催者からの要望で、関連が深いと思われるテーマに沿った内容でプレゼンテーションを行うことになっているが、実際には組織の背景やレジデンスの様子に関することが中心で、各AIRの具体的な活動を知ることができた。また会議の最後にラウンドテーブル形式のグループディスカッションが行われた。毎日遅くまで色々な人と意見交換をし、ずっと喋りっぱなしのスリリングな3日間だった。(4)

  1. 日本からはAIR-H (青森)、Art Center Ongoing (東京)、FIGYA (大阪)、アートスペース・テトラ(福岡)、黄金町エリアマネージメントセンター(神奈川)・アーカスプロジェクト(茨城)が参加。
  2. VIVA EXCON(Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference)は、1990年から催されているフィリピン・ビサヤ地域のビエンナーレ/芸術祭。今年はカピス州ロハス市で11月開催。
    http://cargocollective.com/vxcapiz2018/LUPAD-Theme-of-VIVA-EXCON-CAPIZ-2018
    私がどうしてこの会議に参加していたのかというと、この直前に同じ会場でVIVA EXCON主催のワークショップのファシリテーターとして参加していたため。
  3. Rimbun Dahan
    http://rimbundahan.org

  4. 関連リンク
    http://cargocollective.com/vxcapiz2018/Southeast-Asian-Art-Residencies-Meeting-2018

The situation of creating artworks

 

Katipunan Ave Diliman, Quezon City Metro Manila, 2018
Katipunan Ave Diliman, Quezon City Metro Manila, 2018

About the past fifteen years, I focused mainly on child rearing and family,  and there was a slightly harsh situation about my artworks. My son became a junior high school third grader, tying a little over the rebellious pass. Someday my wife’s job has stabilised and decided to list his work consciously.

Sabbatical, five years ago, was a leave feel for the whole family, and in London where my wife was a student, my son also learned all year long at the international school was a big goal. In that sense, as a researcher, we could not have been satisfied with just a little digestion.

So, I decided to come alone to the Philippines this time. My wife also has my job, and my son is studying at school, so I am happy with the basketball club.

My interest is changing a bit more than before. The career as a university faculty member is getting much longer. In addition to achievements and research as an artist, it is my problem whether I can offer better programs than university students and universities.

この15年くらいは子育てや家族のことが中心で、自分自身の仕事に関してはちょっと厳しい状況があった。息子が中学3年生になり、しかも反抗期の峠をやや過ぎたタイイング。且つ妻の仕事が安定してきたということもあって、自分の仕事を意識的にリスタートさせることにした。

5年前のサバティカルは、家族全体にとってのサバティカルという感じで、妻が学生時代を過ごしたロンドンで、息子がインターナショナルスクールで一年間学ぶことが大きな目的でもあった。そういう意味で、研究者としてはやや消化ふ不良で物足りなかったのかもしれない。

なので、今回はフィリピンに一人でくることにした。妻も自分の仕事があり、息子も勉強のことはともかく学校の部活で、バスケ部を楽しくやっている。

私の興味は以前とは少し変わってきている。大学教員としてのキャリアもずいぶんと長くなってきている。アーティストとしての成果や研究に加え、大学で学生や大学によりよいプログラムを提供できるのかということが今の課題。

 

 

University of the Philippines

From April I will stay as a visiting researcher at Department of Art Studiesthe University of the Philippine for one year. Last year I decided to ask this university who finally pulled around a lot of universities a lot.,

I stay at Balay Kalinaw on the campus. Although it is slightly expensive, the Internet is outstanding. In the Philippines everyone said that the Internet environment is the hardest thing to do, so I stop looking for others for the time being, for a while.

4月からフィリピン大学芸術学部に客員研究員として一年間滞在することになりました。去年ずいぶんたくさんの大学を回って最終的に引っ張ってくれたフィリピン大学にお願いすることを決めました。

宿舎はフィリピン大学のキャンパス内のBalay Kalinawに滞在することにしました。ちょっと高いですがインターネットが抜群です。フィリピンではインターネット環境に一番苦労すると言われていたのでとりあえず他を探すのを止めてしばらくいることにしました。

 

 

LAWAS, a public art project in UP Diliman

LAWAS launch event April 11
LAWAS launch event April 11

I participated in the opening of LAWAS, a public art project in UP Diliman yesterday. This is an outdoor exhibition by three artists, Agnes Arellano, Mark Justiniani, and Lee Paje, curated by Tessa Maria Guazon and Cecilia De la Paz, UP Department of Art Studies faculty.

LAWAS launch event April 11

昨日LAWASというパブリックアートプロジェクトのオープニングに参加した。同大学芸術学部教授のTessa Maria Guazon と Cecilia De la Pazのキュレーションによる3人のアーティストAgnes Arellano、Mark Justiniani、Lee Pajeによる展覧会。

 

 

I launched my blog.

From April 2018, I was enrolled as a visiting researcher at the University of the Philippines Diliman for sabbatical leave.

It is 5th of June today. It means I have already been two months since I came to the Philippines. However, I thought about trying to blog things I’ve written up little by little. I had been thinking about writing a blog for a long time, but I have not gotten any opportunity to grasp the chance as I am quite a lazy person.

I have never kept up writing a diary since I was born, I am not sure I can do it or not. Anyway, since I came to the Philippines, there are so many materials which I write, so I think it might be the time to start writing. Also, there are occasions when there are more opportunities to write than before, so there is a meaning of future story making as well.

2018年4月より一年間、大学の在外研修でフィリピン大学ディリマン校に客員研究員として在籍することになった。

もう今日は6月5日なので、フィリピン滞在からもうすでに2ヶ月経ってしまったが、これまでに書き溜めたものを少しずつブログにしてみようと考えた。ブログを書くことについては以前から考えていたが、結構怠慢な人間なのと、きっかけが掴めずここまできた。

日記を書き始めて続いた試しがないので、どこまでできるのやらという感じなのだが、フィリピンにきてから、この2ヶ月ほどの間にも書くネタが尽きない在外研修なのでそう行った意味では今がその時、なのかもしれない。また、以前と比べて書く仕事が増えているということもあるので、そのトレーニングという感じでもある。