Reposted: Locus Redux

The Pananaw ng Sining Bayan, with its partners Japan Foundation Manila Office, Lopez Memorial Museum, and Yuchengco Museum, will hold the conference Locus Redux: Speaking Across Contexts, Learnings and Negotiations in Writing and Teaching on Art on May 19-21, 2012 to which they would like to invite art educators, critics, media practitioners, cultural workers including artists, and graduate students in allied art fields.

A need for productive exchanges across disciplines and practices having to do with the making of culture has been brought to the fore by recent events such as that of the CCP ‘s controversial exhibition and the public discussions which ensued. The conference hopes to jumpstart interactions that focus on the teaching and writing about contemporary art in this highly mediatized age.

Locus Redux will touch on themes such as new pedagogy, deschooling, mobile learning, migrating art academies, web 2.0 among others in the teaching of art and design. The three-day conference will have parallel sessions per day with participants having the opportunity to engage with local and international resource persons such as Raiji Kuroda (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum), Yukie Kamiya (Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima), Brenda Fajardo (Philippine Art Educators Association/Philippine Educational Theater Association), Patrick Flores (UP Diliman/Vargas Museum), Nancy Adajania (Sarai/Art India), Jang Un Kim (Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima), Farah Wardani (Indonesian Visual Art Archive/Cemeti Art House), Claire Tancons (Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans), Carol Lu (Flash Art/Contemporary Art), Abdellah Karroum (L’appartement 22), Ellen Pau (Videotage, Hong Kong), Michael Vasquez (Bidoun/W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard), and Abe Garcia Jr. (Philippine Women’s College of Davao), among others. Apart from the conference sessions, participants will be treated to museum visits and visits to artist’s spaces where they are encouraged to continue their engagements with each other in this potential network of colleagues.

The seminar will be held at the Yuchengco Museum. Participants will be charged a registration fee of Php 2,000.00 which covers the conference kit, meals (3 lunches, 3 morning and 3 afternoon snacks) and a certificate of participation/attendance. For participants based outside of Metro Manila who would be needing lodging, the organizers could provide upon request, a list of lodgings near the conference site.

For more information, please call the secretariat at 6312417 and look for Ms. Fanny San Pedro/Ms. Mary Ann Pernia, from Monday-Saturday, 8am-5pm.