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With regards to the selection of work, it was important to me that
that the works have a time-based approaches to responding to the
present state of things. There’s a challenge to materiality because
of what’s happening, and not just in art making. In the art world,
the experience of having to find novel ways to communicate or
even transmit the substance of a work was almost universal. In the
case of the projects that I chose for VIVA, both have a resistance to
standard modes of transmission and display, and so were uniquely
suited to a more fragmented approach of exhibition making. And
though they are translatable and have often been shown within an
exhibition space, the works of Gabi Nazareno and Retired Artist
both configure and resolve themselves outside of it.
Lastly, it was also important to me at the start to have something
interesting to offer the artists in return, wether it was a chance
to revisit a longstanding body of work through the distribution
strategies of the internet as in the case of Retired Artist, or to
generate new materialities for an existing series of work in terms of
Gabi Nazareno. The beginning of the pandemic was a difficult time
to be making work, and I’m truly thankful to both artists for being
so generous with their time and effort.
HARANA 14 (to Bobby, David & Christian)
Live performances at 58 E.J. Blanco,
Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental
at dusk on September 18, 25, October 2, 9, 16
Retired Artist aka Sandra Palomar (b.1971)
2020-2021
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