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NEW INSIGHTS, NEW FORESIGHTS: Musings on the Performance Curators Initiatives Virtual International Symposium 2020
Last October, the Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI), a global network of performance curators based in the Philippines, held its second international symposium entitled Conversations on Curation and Performance in the Time of Halting and Transformation. In partnership with the Japan Foundation-Manila, ASEF Culture 360, and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the symposium was held fully online and partly streamed publicly via the PCI s YouTube Channel, and was attended by number of 40-50 participants globally; as thought-provoking presentations by speakers from different parts of the world highlighted the programme.
PHOTO FROM VMEMECONTEMPORARY.COM
PHOTO FROM VMEMECONTEMPORARY.COM
ONE of the biggest areas of the metro, the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus, was rendered silent by the pandemic. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown closed schools and colleges, and forced students and their teachers to go online â which itself is another can of worms.
Dr. Eloisa May Hernandez, an Art History Professor at the universityâs Department of Art Studies, and UP Diliman resident, captured this silence through her iPhone camera during walks she took at the beginning of the lockdowns imposed almost a year ago. The photos are now in an online exhibit with vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery titled