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body is enworlded, on the other. It is rare for a word to register
simultaneously cosmos and cognition. This was the prompt for our
curatorial work on the Visayas: to create conditions for expressive
material that responds to the range of stimuli of an active ecology to
play out in space for VIVA. This expressive material may be translated
in many ways: object, sound, performance, image, moving image,
text, and so on.
The subsidiary title The World in Mind pertained to the state of
being in the world, thinking through the world, and finally looking
after it with care as well as with anxiety, affection, or even obsession.
Mindfulness of the world acknowledges complicity in its production
as well as the indeterminacy of its vastness.
In light of the global pandemic, I put in place a curatorial mode that
crawled from 2020 to 2021. Kalibutan was scheduled to open in
November 2020 and was protracted till December 2021. This gap of
time had to be curatorially filled, thus the initiation of A Seminar of
a Possible Exhibition to edge from 2020 towards 2021, comprising
increments from the projects of artists as well as discussions around
curatorial work through the following nodes: Curators Converse;
Artists Explore; Works Disclose; and Exhibitions/Not Exhibitions.
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