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BACOLOD (2020)Year 2020 was the biggest and the most challenging year for VIVAExCon. It was the 30th year and it was supposed to be a veryimportant celebration for us. In 2019, while adrenaline was rushingthrough our veins, we thought we had found a perfect sponsor forVIVA’s 30th year in a foundation run by a successful Negrense. Butthings did not turn out as we expected as unfortunate incidentshappened in the coming months. And then the COVID-19pandemic happened. It arrived in the Philippines and it spread likewildfire. I asked Manny, as VIVA executive director, if we should goon with the VIVA ExCon: “Dayonon ta ni?” (Will we push throughwith this?) There was a decision to wait it out but we decided tomove forward with a plan to recalibrate the theme into the word,DASUN (What’s next). The answer to the question became muchclearer and defined when curator Patrick Flores agreed to acceptthe challenge as well as to curate the exhibition, both virtual andphysical (if circumstances would allow it). It was the first time thatthe biennale transitioned into the digital world. We moved forwardwith the very first online VIVA ExCon.More unexpected luck came to us in the form of a sponsorshipfrom the Mercedes Zobel Foundation that gave VIVA a gift andproceeds from our fundraiser exhibitions that were big enough tofund the projects in our projected 18-month long VIVA ExCon.It was during this time in 2020 when I contracted the COVID-19virus after we launched VIVA ExCon at the Art District that landedme and my wife in the hospital for 10 days.Gathering all the resources we could get and transitioning to a digitalplatform was not easy. How in the world can we do it when no onehad the slightest idea how to even start? But again, BAYANIHANhappened. The core group consisting of key people like Jade SnowDionzon, Moreen Austria, Gina Jocson, Ida Vecino, KathrynBaynosa, Rhoderick Samonte, Barry Cervantes, Aeson Baldevia,Julie Yip, Dennis Ascalon, Carmel Hibaler and the Orange Projectstaff, all volunteers who shared their time and ideas. Special mentionalso goes to all the local artists, musicians and dancers who dressedup and performed at the Art District as if VIVA ExCon was reallyand actually happening, despite the absence of an audience whichwould have been the delegates from all over the Visayas. A specialand controversial sculpture of a carabao by artist Rafael Paderna wasdonated to the Orange Project with my collaboration, in time forthe ExCon launch. But all this would not have been possible if notfor the one hundred percent support of Victor Benjamin “Bong”Lopue, III and his family. Bong, who is a philanthropist in his ownquiet way, prefers to be out of the limelight but gives an approvingnod and a big smile when he sees Art District and Orange Projectbustling and bursting with art, even while the whole world was onlockdown. With Manny Montelibano directing the ship, and withhelp coming from people who have supported VIVA ExCon inits earlier years. There was no other motivation needed when youknow someone’s got your back. The conferences were accepted well,especially at the end when everyone got to host and talk to each20
VIVA ExCon 2020 Bacolod Launching, Charlie Co, Manny Montelibano, Bong Lopue - Photo by Aeson Baldevia21
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Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS68Curators Notes Eastern Vi
Page 8 and 9: Messages
Page 11 and 12: Flashbacks of VIVA ExConby Charlie
Page 13 and 14: It may not be our fondest memory bu
Page 15 and 16: DUMAGUETE (2012)Garbo sa Bisaya Awa
Page 17 and 18: VIVA ExCon 2016 Iloilo - Photo by L
Page 19: ROXAS (2018)The 2018 VIVA ExCon was
Page 23 and 24: Bayanihan ExhibitionsFundraising Ev
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Page 27 and 28: works of art, either individually o
Page 29 and 30: We were actually quite excited abou
Page 31 and 32: V-CON1 Day 2 November 12, 2020Virtu
Page 33 and 34: V-CON1 Day 4 November 14, 2020Virtu
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Page 39 and 40: Caught by the Lockdown:Artists’ S
Page 41 and 42: Art Initiatives in Changing TimesJa
Page 43 and 44: Kalibutan Seminar Node 2:Artists Ex
Page 45 and 46: Kalibutan Seminar Node 2:Artists Ex
Page 47 and 48: Music Video Launch of Uwak47
Page 49 and 50: The Art Market Post COVID-19April 1
Page 51 and 52: Kalibutan Seminar Node 3: WorksDisc
Page 53 and 54: Lockdown ArtJune 5, 2021This webina
Page 55: Museum Management Projectionsfrom t
Page 63 and 64: body is enworlded, on the other. It
Page 65 and 66: I proposed the modalities above as
Page 67 and 68: The term kalibutan, aside from bein
Page 69 and 70: Contingent Kalibutan:Notes on Curat
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of? These are just musings and ques
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RAF+CAA’s project, which calls ou
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Regional Art Forum75
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78HingaloSonic performance, Virtual
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Interative Box Installation16 x 20
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Curators Notes Central Visayas
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84The design-driven creative scene
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Mona Alcudia’s Peacock ChairMona
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Curator’s Notesby Maria Tanaguchi
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10.3157° N, 123.8854° EVariable d
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On Seeing the Kalibutanby Liby Limo
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Artists as Synthesizing Agentsin a
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Sometimes, the best step forward is
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The multiple positions she occupies
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Dinun-an Sang Aton Ginikanan (The W
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107BahandiMultimedia DocumentaryFar
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Visayas Elsewhereby Patrick FloresT
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Lani Maestro, who is currently livi
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Finally, Joshua Serafin, conjures a
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it is thisNeonLani Maestro2018
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Cosmological GangbangVideo Installa
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2003-2016HP Matte Print279 inches x
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Brenda FajardoSiya, Ikaw, At Ako (1
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a. b.c. d.(clockwise) a. Nang Sumil
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Nunelucio AlvaradoUntitled 45.5”
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a.b.a. Tiempo Muertos 9.5” x 67
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Leandro LocsinLeandro Locsin (1928-
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Lino SeverinoUntitled 24 x 30 inche
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#667 19.5 x 14 inches watercolor on
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Essay Divider
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My VIVA ExConby Raymund L. Fernande
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VIVA ExCon Cebu, which we called
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From Bacolod to Roxas:LOOKING BACKW
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Despite differences in styles and t
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the abundance of murals that dotted
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and some intense lobbying. I warned
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Ratia Mufida (Biennale Jogja) revea
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VIVA Excon 1990 at Mambukal Resort,
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Finding Inspirationin VIVA ExConby
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Patrick FloresGuinevere DecenaLiby
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Partner Viewing Spaces172
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Major SponsorsMercedes U. Zobel174
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