Benilde@30, The Exhibit
“As an institution, how have we been an agent for positive change?”
The De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde celebrates its 30th anniversary by reflecting on this question through an exhibit that highlights the values of the school and its role in society.
Benilde@30, The Exhibit opens today, presenting 30 communities that Benilde has partnered with since it started as an independent tertiary education institution in 1988. These partnerships will illustrate how the school has defined its character and direction in the areas of innovation, social outreach and inclusive education.
The core of the exhibit are 30 collage boxes featuring these community partnerships. Created by 30 students and alumni the artworks are inspired by the community partnerships and contain significant materials and information about the communities, key Benildeans and their partners, as well as a narrative of the story behind the partnerships. A timeline listing down 150+ milestones of the College from 1988 to the present will be installed together with the portraits of Benilde’s past presidents and EVPs. Looking to the future, models of the three major buildings of Benilde presently being constructed and images of the newly opened Benilde Antipolo Campus and the proposed new Boracay campus completes the exhibit.
Benilde@30, The Exhibit is produced by the Center for Campus Art and the Lasallian Mission and Student Life.
The Extra Extra OrdinaryTromarama, Chou Yu-Cheng, Gary-Ross Pastrana opens today, and runs from Sept. 21 to Nov. 18, at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila.
The Extra Extra Ordinary proposes a new sensory processor to attend contemporary everyday life with add-ons movements and sensitivities. The title suggests an abstraction of affects shared among the human and the non-human; their correlation and disjoints as informed by contemporary objects, technology and culture. The exhibition also presents possibilities toward the generation of various sets of social and material connections, finding people simultaneously in the process of becoming and worlding.
The growing tension to unlearn ethics between human and non-human worlds is one of the burning issues of our time. The anxiety goes even further beyond traditional boundaries with technology invention all the time.
By creating a simulation of such a worlding process with works presented by artists, The Extra Extra Ordinary conceives many unparalleled sensibilities to operate the essence of life in detail, interexchanges and connections among matter, energy and life. With the circulation of these ideas, where agents such as audience become intrinsic parts of the media outputting the extraordinary celebration of every ordinary life takes on a poetic and imaginative turn.
The Extra Extra Ordinary is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila and the Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC). The show is generously supported by Edouard Malingue Gallery and the National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF). Curated by Joselina Cruz and Esther Lu, the exhibition will include work by Tromarama, Chou Yu-Cheng and Gary-Ross Pastrana.