Japan Foundation to hold Curatorial Development Webinar

THE Japan Foundation Manila ( JFM), the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN) and the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum will be holding an Online Talk for the Curatorial Development Workshop series to be hosted live on Zoom and Facebook on October 21, 9:30 a.m.

The Public Talk will have speakers Kamiya Yukie (Gallery Director, Japan Society, New York), Chuong-Dai Vo (Researcher, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong), and Taufik Darwis (Co-Founder, Bandung Performing Arts Forum, Bandung), as they share their insights on art and curation in their respective practice in these challenging times.

This Workshop, spearheaded by Patrick Flores, working together with other members of PCAN, Tessa Guazon, Renan Laru-an, and Roberto Paulino, is the sixth in the series since 2009 and seeks to reflect on the relationship between the social context of the public health crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and the kind of curatorial mode responsive to the ecology of production.

This production has been disrupted because of the restrictions on basic mobility; domestic and international travel; physical interaction; and general everyday activity. This situation, coupled with uncertainty and unpredictability, has affected the economic and emotional well-being of everyone all over the world and rendered daily life and the imagination of the future precarious, even as various forms of violence have in the same breath heightened.

The Workshop is to speak to this context: to explain and propose ways of understanding the complex and delicate condition and to translate these strategies into a curatorial mode or instinct.

Follow the official event page and The Japan Foundation Manila on Facebook to view the webinar for free.