Gif Junkie Slumber Party

On a balmy Saturday afternoon of  August 23, a forum on gif art and internet art was held in conjunction with the show #Destroy 3000 Years of Culture which recent Ateneo Art Award winner Jeona Zoleta curated.  Multi-media Arts and Fine Arts students from Kalayaan College, Mapua Institute of Technology and the UP College of Fine Arts came to hear about the discussion on this new art medium and platform that’s uniquely conceived out of this digital-media saturated generation.  I do hope they’ve learned something from this discussion. Much thanks to teachers Ms. Drea Peralejo, Ms. Con Cabrera, and Ms. Teta Tulay for herding their students to this talk. Post and Pablo hope to conduct more forums like this in the future.

Artist Maria Cruz had an exhibit at CCP last June titled Psychology Today. She is wearing a shirt she bought from a gig by the indie band Young Liars who refashions 2nd -hand clothes.

 

Ringo Bunoan, co-curator of an upcoming homage show for Roberto Chabet at CCP this August 30, is also currently setting up a small bookshop that focuses on art books and locally published books with Katya Guerrero. Pow Martinez will be opening a show with Jeona Zoleta at Now Gallery this August 25.

a nourished body for a nourished mind : scrumptious home-baked treats from Pablo gallerist Osie Tiangco.

writing in to be counted

Jeona Zoleta giving an introduction to the talk, explaining how the show came about : the title of the show being taken from an Atari Teenage Riot Song (Destroy 2000 Years of Culture), and originally inviting mostly women artists she’s worked with from an earlier show she’s curated at Finale Art File (Y2K Babes), eventually she’s included some artists who prior to this show have not really made gif clips.

Alden Santiago explaining his work Remodern Guilt. He accepted the challenge of doing a gif for the first time for this show as he’s mostly doing installation work. Forgot to ask if the work references 2001 Space Odyssey in any way.

Martin De Mesa sneaks in some prepping for his performance during the talk.

Kat Medina’s turn. She confessed that the work she did for the show may not be strictly considered a gif as its frame rate of 60 already borders on being an animation of 2 of her existing paintings. She also added that working with technology is somehow a form of craft practice.

Teta Tulay with her students from Kalayaan College, is also a core member of the Anino Shadowplay Collective, and a recipient of numerous recognition such as Gawad CCP para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video, Animation Council of the Phil. and PPBY for her works on animation and illustration.

Catalina Africa, back from her art residency from Maine, USA, explains how she came up with her own gif work, employing green screening techniques to her collage-paintings, and incorporating performance too.

Mark Sanchez narrates a rather funny anecdote about an asylum inmate who thinks he’s a casette tape (lying supine as side A, lying prone as side B) He relates this anecdote to his work where he translated an image of white noise into an ASCII code. Transcribing it manually, he correlates the physicality of this task as working in an analogue mode to get to a digital image.

Tanya Villanueva on her work – a compilation of found gifs on the internet. She’s part of a group show titled Hand Job which will be opening on Sept 4 at Galerie Anna.

illustrator, vinyl afficionado and part-time actor Fabo came to the talk with his whole brood who are all budding artists as well. Here, he shares his insights and concerns about this new media which seems to define as well the generation of today. The concern centers primarily on how this new media can be beneficially used further, and how it can bypass traditional platforms to present work.

Tatong Torres, who did an entire exhibition in the 3d virtual world platform Second Life and by which he was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards in 2011, raised questions on the technical aspects of mounting the show, and the essential differences between gifs and looped video works.

Martin De Mesa into the 2nd phase of prepping

Y2K meets Gen Z

and on to the show !

prepping up the performance tent for Jol3na, the performance duo of Jeona Zoleta and Catalina Africa

Post program director Manuel Ocampo with Paris-based Gaston Damag back in Manila for a series of shows with Drawing Room

 

  

 

that guitar is so fun to play, it comes with a very portable mini amp in black and white tiger stripes.

Martin sings-chants in an ethereally choir-boy voice.

 

the peripheral performers : Mark playing a vibrating wooden instrument, a paparazzi dedicated on taking photos of Martin, Kat and Tanya dancing to the cacophony of Jol3na’s ambient instrumentations and Martin’s sing-chants.

 

TriAngle Force Gig at Post Cubao X

Team Manila in partnership with Locked Down Entertainment and Play For Serve staged a gig last August 8 amidst a Jon-Secada weather (clear moonlit skies, windblown hair with windblown blousy tunic) where Post played host to the bands and the production staff.  Business was good, no great actually, for all the bars and shops that night as the crowd swelled up and filled every cranny of Cubao X while waiting for the gig to start, swigging beers and chowing down on barbeque, chicken innards, sausages, and whatever was on each bar’s menu.

First up – Squid 9, Hiphop inspired music project formed by Raimund Marasigan

Isi Laureano (chef, Chili Asylum proprietor, and photographer) with Marcus Nada (illustrator and co-owner/founder of graphic design studio Electrolyche; also plays synths and sings back up for indie rock band Bagetsafonik,and MCing for hiphop group Corporate Lo-fi)

Pat Sarabia, percussionist of psychedelic beat and bass and groove band Wilderness

When playing as Pedicab, each member adapts a pseudonym or alter ego : Jason Caballa (aka J. Sonic) and Diego Mapa (aka DaddyMaps)

 

 

serious go-proing action

Raymund M (aka Sugar Raims) and film maker RA Rivera (aka Just Toni).

Diego Mapa’s other music projects : solo project as Eggboy, as part of two-man electronic act Tarsius, as vocalist and guitarist for Cambio and Monsterbot, and producer/owner of indie records label Sibika’t Kultura

 

Mike Dizon (aka Masterbeat), who also plays drums for Sandwich and The Teeth

Shinji Tanaka, drums for Squid 9 and Gaijin, also owner of top digital audio recording studio Sound Creation and  restaurant Crazy Katsu

 

Gaki Azurin of Flying Ipis

Flying Ipis’ band photo sesh with the eternally dancing flan girl

Name this band.

painter and Tether drummer Jigger Cruz,and some sneaky photobombing by DM

 

Diego and Myrene (former NU 107 dj, now plays bass for Imago, Duster and Sandwich)

Illustrator/graphic designer Gabie Osorio with film maker Shireen Seno and Jed Escueta who will be opening his solo show Coprolite Happens on Sept 13 at Post

 

Diego-less (Castillo) Sandwich

the comeback kid

encore : laklak

the other half of independent curating team Planting Rice Sidd Perez and artist Kat Medina

Saturnino Basilia will have a Selecter FM Session at Post in November

 

 

 

 

 

Tin Garcia’s Homebodies (The Works)

 

If You Love Me, You Will Obey (laser cut wood, metal chains)

God Bless Our Domme (acrylic, oil, ink, and embroidery on canvas)

As For Me and My Dom (acrylic, oil, ink, and embroidery on canvas)

Blessed Is That Servant

Count Your Lashings

 

The Righteous Gives

  

Tin Garcia’s Homebodies Opening Night

Neither rain, nor traffic, nor Friday’s payday hang-over waylaid these well-wishers and the curious who have come to see the bondage -inspired works of Tin Garcia.

The ice breaker and the weather comforter

Tin Garcia and Isobel Francisco. These two are going to have a show at Post this November

Tony Stark, is that you?

Families and babies are welcome to see this very wholesome art show

Transit Journal co-editor Zeny May Recidoro always on the go to see the latest exhibits.

Gerry Tan with Sydney-based artist Juni Salvador who is slated to have a show at Pablo next year.

Tin’s bandmates, The Wrath of Odette Khan.

Pablo is biker friendly!

Miko Sandejas and Canada-based artist Jay Ticar. They are also included in The Heist Conference, a show that recently opened at Nova Gallery.

Tin with photobombing Kurt Gloria and Nikko Maravillas, who was once a solo indie pop act that recorded an ep under Documento Records as Down Boy Down.

Mr. and Mrs. Olavides who came in from the rain

Tin with Raymond Subido who fronts the industrial-electronica band X-9

the gallerinas and gallerino in black : to hide the wine stains