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Lockdown Art
June 5, 2021
This webinar with Mark Salvatus was moderated by Vincent Rose
Sarnate who highlighted how the art community grappled with
forms of confinement. In the new revolution of contemporary art, it
is imperative for artists to employ practices that will outlast physical
restraints, global health crises, or periods of creative lockdown.
Practicing artist and Load na Dito’s co-founder Mark Salvatus took
works, projects and innovations in and beyond walls as he began
citing impacts of the pandemic on his personal and professional
life. Salvatus mentioned Salvage Projects. The core idea of which
was going back and picking things up. He remarked that objects
are a symbol and extension of our time and lives, as gadgets an
extension of our hands, and shoes as that of our feet. Mundane
things at home became his starting point. The artist employed an
equivocal approach, specific on absurdity, ambiguity, and difference
in contexts. The discussion was tri-focal as it viewed Lockdown
Art in three lenses: the artist, the work, and the viewer or audience.
Seeing that the nature of the work is closely related to space,
Salvatus defined an ideal art space within context of the pandemic.
This dialogue on Lockdown Art proved that the latitude of practice
and liberal nature of art will eventually supersede isolation. One
redefines space, as art’s universality stretches farther or comes closer
at will, in clear opposition to rigidities of physical distance and
corners of isolation.
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