Sensorium: Contemporary art and technology for the senses
Sebuah artikel mengenai aktivitas Media/Art_Kitchen di Manila, Filipina. Artikel ini ditulis oleh Carla Mortel di situs online Manila Standard Today, disadur oleh Andreas Siagian pada tanggal 24 Januari 2014. Artikel versi online dapat dilihat di link ini. Berikut salinan dari artikel tersebut:
Carla Mortel Nov. 16, 2013 at 07:02pm In celebration of the 40th year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation, Japan foundation organized a multi-site media art project titled Media/Art Kitchen. Beginning September, the traveling program visited major cities like Tokyo, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore and Hanoi and featured Japanese and Southeast Asian artists.
The Manila leg of the Media/Art Kitchen is titled Sensorium that aims to engage the viewers with contemporary art and technology that interact with the human senses. According to guest curators, Dayang Yraola, Lian Ladia, and Hattori Hiroyuki, Sensorium is focused “on contemporary art and technology directed to interact with the human sensorium, relating the ‘physical’ to what is transmitted or perceived by the ‘sensorial.’”
Open until Nov. 24, the on-going exhibit at the Ayala Museum features art installations by Kenichi Hagihara, Takashi Makino, mamoru, Yuichiro Tamura, Tetsuya Umeda, Lyota Yagi (Japan), lifepatch, Anggun Priambodo (Indonesia), Fairuz Sulaiman (Malaysia), Ringo Bunoan, Kawayan De Guia, Tad Ermitano, Liby Limoso, Manny Montelibano, Renan Ortiz, Maria Rosalie Zerrudo (Philippines), Chulayarnnon Siriphol (Thailand), and Bruce Quek (Singapore).
Media/Art Kitchen’s Reality Distortion Field involves experimental film screenings showcasing the works of the most innovative and ingenious filmmakers and video artists: Nguyen Trinh Thi, The Propeller Group (Vietnam); Nitipak Samsen, Chulayarnnon Siriphol (Thailand); Kota Takeuchi, Takashi Makino, Yuichiro Tamura (Japan); Tad Ermitano, Tito & Tita (Philippines); Chris Chong Chan Fui, That Effing Show (Malaysia); Ho Tzu Nyen, Lucy David, Song-Ming Ang (Singapore); Prilla Tania, and Reza Afisina (Indonesia).
The experimental films and videos were categorized in three thematic programs: Landscape and Beyond - new possibilities in engaging, exploring and understanding landscape; Media At Hand - appropriating different media and their strategies to convey a new message; and Being Physical - discovering new forms of perceiving the physical in experimental films dealing with materiality, from the body to object to sound. Viewers may catch the screenings at FDCP Cinematheque IloIlo on Nov. 16 to 17, CINEMA of the Benilde SDA on Nov. 20 to 22 and in FDCP Cinematheque Davao on Nov. 23 to 24.
Art laboratories working on art/media and technology were held under Project Joint, a design lab with Gary Ross-Pastrana and Stanley Ruiz on Nov. 4 to 8. In cooperation with Escolta Commercial Association and Fete dela WSK, a media and technology sound performance was presented on Nov. 9 at the First United Buildling in Escolta, Manila. The featured sound and performance artists were the esteemed Tetsuya Umeda (Japan), and local sound collectives Elemento and Bent Lynchpin (Philippines).
Tetsuya Umeda is one of Japan’s leading contemporary performance and sound artist working across disciplines and sites, while Elemento is a multi-disciplinary art collective that create sound sculptures with instruments out of metal pipes, bicycle parts and industrial materials, founded and created by legendary Filipino artist Lirio Salvador. Bent Lynchpin is a collaboration between Caliph8, Malek Lopez and Fred Sandoval, the curators of Manila’s monthly left field music platform, Subflex.
The next art lab will be on Nov. 20 to 24 with Mark Salvatus (Philippines) and Stephanie Syjuico (Philippines/USA) in Remote Cntrl to explore authorship and available networks tools at 98B Collaboratory, Manila. At Green Papaya Art Projects, the radio lab of Tengal plus Merv Espina (Philippines) and mamoru (Japan) is still running until Nov. 17 and is being broadcasted over WSK.FM.
Workshops and talks on art/media and technology are also being held at the Benilde SDA until Nov. 25.