Visual Pond Artspace, Inc. is a non-profit organization committed to the visual arts. Based in Manila, Visual Pond aims to be a dynamic player in the Philippine contemporary art scene through projects that engage and promote local artists both here and abroad.
We at Visual Pond envision a contemporary art scene that is vibrant, open to experimentation and supported by the community. By taking initiatives and creating opportunities for Filipino artists, we work towards this realization for the visual arts locale.
Asides from Manila-based projects, we are also interested in regional and international exchanges on ideas, concepts and possible collaborations with definite end products.
TheAteneo Fine Arts Festival andAteneo BFA Art Management 2011 studentsare presenting a screening of the three episodes released so far under Visual Pond's ARTiculationseries on 2 February, Wednesday, from 3.00 - 4.30 PM at theAteneo Art Gallery, 2F Rizal Library Special Collections Building, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City. The three episodes featureMark Salvatus, Christina Quisumbing RamiloandRonald Caringal.
More episodes will be released in the coming months - volunteers willing to help edit the materials are welcome!
The warmest of thanks to those who came to the artist talk and "closing" ofTad Ermitano'sfirst solo exhibition,Passage, last Saturday atPablo Gallery Fort Bonifacio. We're happy to announce for those who haven't seen the show thatPassage will be having an extended run until this Saturday, 5 February 2011. Those who are interested in obtaining pictures of the exhibition for documentation and press coverage may clickhereto download hi-resolution pictures (link expires 5 February, 2 am Manila time). Video documentation will be uploaded in youtube after the exhibition run. Pablo Gallery is located at C-11 South of Market Condominium, 11th Avenue corner 26th Avenue, Fort Bonifacio Taguig and is open Tuesday to Saturday, 12 - 7 PM.
The next activity of End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present will be in late March at the Ateneo Art Gallery whereinEnd Frame 3 curator Clarissa Chikiamco will discuss the video art collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum after her research residency there this February to March. There will also be more talks presented in the months running up till the nextEnd Frame 3 solo exhibition, which will be of Manny Montelibano, opening in August at Gallery Nova. More details on these events will be released closer to the dates.
PASSAGE, the first solo exhibition of Tad Ermitaño
ongoing at Pablo Gallery, Fort Bonifacio Closing & Artist Talk: 29 January 2011, Saturday, 5.30 pm
Please join us this 29 January 2011, Saturday, at 5.30 pm for the closing refreshments and artist talk of PASSAGE, the first solo exhibition of TadErmitaño, ongoing at Pablo Gallery Fort Bonifacio. Ermitaño will discuss the concept and challenges of his current exhibition, his other body of work and will be addressing questions posed by the audience and End Frame 3 festival curator Clarissa Chikiamco.
We will be sitting on the floor for this talk but those with preferences to chair seating may send an email to visualpond@gmail.com with 'chair' as the subject line and indicate how many seats desired to be provided by 7 pm, Thursday, 27 January. A maximum of 20 seats will be provided to accommodate chair requests. As equipment may have to be turned off during the discussion, we would like to advise those who haven't yet seen the show to please come earlier to see the exhibition in its entirety. For those who've already been to the exhibition, please note that Ermitaño has made some minor adjustments since 20 January. Those unable to see the exhibition, documentation will be uploaded on youtube after the exhibition run.
This branch of Pablo Gallery is located at C-11 South of Market Condominium, 11th Avenue corner 26th Avenue, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Manila. Please click here for a map to the gallery. It is walking distance from and located as the same street as Fully Booked. Parking is available at High Street and Market Market area. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 12 noon to 7 pm. For Pablo inquiries, please call Lara at +63.999.5160645.
Passage is a project under End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, a series of solo exhibitions of artists presenting new video work from 2011 to 2012. For inquiries on the project, email visualpond@gmail.com with'end frame 3' as the subject line.
Launches with PASSAGE, the first solo exhibition of Tad Ermitaño
15-29 January 2011, Pablo Gallery Fort Bonifacio
End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, a Philippine video art festival, commences this month as the third edition and new format of the video art festival which took place in 2006 and 2007. Presented by Visual Pond, the theme Present refers to the current project’s focus on selected Philippine contemporary artists’ practices in video art. Throughout the festival, each artist stages a show presenting new video work in various venues from January 2011 to January 2012.
The festival proudly launches with Passage, a solo exhibition by Tad Ermitaño, opening on January 15 at Pablo Gallery, Fort Bonifacio. A site-specific work responsive to the two rooms of Pablo and the stairs between them, Passage utilizes multiple projections and video mapping technology in a crossover of fairy tales and science fiction. Ermitaño, who has studied philosophy, biology and filmmaking, has participated in several local and international group exhibitions and film festivals, including the 2002 videoart.mov, the 2004 Hong Kong International Film Festival, the 2006 Ogaki Biennale, the 2007 Dime a Dozen at Lopez Museum, the 2008 Inter-society of Electronic Arts juried exhibition and recently, the Hear to Ear exhibition of Fete dela Wsk. Passage marks the first solo exhibition of this media artist, running until 29 January 2011 with a closing talk by the artist at 5:30 pm.
Pablo Gallery, located at C-11 South of Market Condominium, 11th corner 26th Avenue, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, is open Tuesday to Saturday from 12 noon to 7:00 pm, tel. no. (632) 506-0602. Other confirmed artists presenting new works for End Frame 3 include Manny Montelibano, Claro Ramirez, Kiri Dalena and Kaloy Olavides with the full schedule and line-up to be announced soon. For inquiries on the project, call +63917-5357955 or email visualpond@gmail.com. Passage is with thanks to Green Papaya Art Projects.
Visual Pond is delighted to support CHATSILOG at Green Papaya Art Projects this December.
Chatsilog
Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. + Carlos Villa
December 10 – 17 (6pm-12am)
Closing Reception, December 17 (6pm-12am)
Green Papaya Art Projects 41B T. Gener (corner Kamuning Rd.), Quezon City Sponsored by visual pond, kokoro-works.com
For "The Ephemera of Disposable Goods" series, Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. and
Carlos Villa offer the delights of CHATSILOG, a reflection on the desire to
connect across distance and time zones, a meditation on the shortcomings of
digitally-dependent communication and the false sense of security it provides,
and an effort at long-distance collaboration between 4 artists inhabiting 4
different places in the world, with the goal of producing a remote project in a
5th location.
Carlos Villa is an artist and professor at the San Francisco Art Institute. A
contemporary of, and much like, Manila's own cultural treasure Roberto Chabet,
Carlos Villa has mentored and encouraged numerous California artists over the
years, all while continuing his own art practice. He brought the 3 members of
Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. together for a research project in 1994, and things
have never been the same since.
Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. (Eliza “Neneng” Barrios, Reanne “Immaculata” Estrada, Jenifer “Baby” Wofford) inevitably formed into something of a three-headed monster, and have been collaborating on performative photos, videos,
installations and public spectacles ever since. Since 2003 however, they've been
increasingly hampered by time-space considerations, with one member or another either living out of immediate reach of the others.
The challenge of this collaboration is not a simple one. The artists reside in
disparate places (Prague, Los Angeles, two different neighborhoods in San
Francisco) and are tasked with creating a project for Green Papaya Art Projects
in Manila. Technology comes to the rescue: laptops with built-in cameras,
high-speed internet, iChat. But it turns out that technology isn't perfect. And
neither are they. So they make do.
CHATSILOG is a bittersweet, comedic attempt to cohere fragmented interactions
into an illusory, temporary space that, for the duration of the project, the
artists can share and jointly occupy. M.O.B.’s participation in “The Ephemera of
Disposable Goods” series marks the group’s first exhibition in Manila. Sadly,
neither they nor Carlos Villa can attend in person to celebrate the occasion.
This project is the fourth installment of the current program by resident curator, Lian Ladia for “The Ephemera of Disposable Goods”, a curatorial platform presenting collaborations between two artists or artist groups investigating social sculptural projects based on context of time/place, relational works and encounters.
THANK YOU Visual pond, Kokoro-works.com, 24HR Art (Darwin Australia) and Melissa Ramos for making this collaboration possible.
CALL FOR PHILIPPINE ENTRIES
The One Minutes Awards 2011
VISUAL POND, as the Philippine partner of The One Minutes Foundation and with the support of the UPFI Film Center, invites artists and video/filmmakers based in the Philippines to submit entries for The One Minutes Awards 2011.
The One Minutes (TOM) is a brand name for moving images that last exactly one minute with its core activity being the annual competition, The One Minutes Awards. Launched in 1998, it has developed into a global network with makers from 100 countries and an archive of 10000 video works that are shown (inter) nationally on many podia. It is organized by The One Minutes Foundation, a non profit organization hosted by the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The One Minutes Awards 2011 have the following categories: - Video Performance: you and the camera - Cut and Paste: technical miracles - A Small History: small stories about matters we should not forget about - Micro Commercial: small companies run by passionate owners - Fairground Attraction: surreal details of a visual dream world - Mini Road Movie: travel from A to B and add your road movie to a world network of travels
Please observe the following technical requirements:
- Entry must be exactly one minute in length.
- Entry must be of broadcast quality.
- Please use 16:9 HD format. Export your movie as Quicktime or .avi at 720x576 pixels with dv-pal compressor, anamorphic, 25 frames per second and 48kHz sound.
- Burn this dv-file on a data-cd or dvd
Per category 6 videos will be nominated for the Tommy awards plus cash prize. From each category a larger selection of 24 videos will be used as a series for the new One Minutes magazine to which a selective group of podia can subscribe. The annual awards night in February 2011 will also mark the launch of this new video art magazine.
Drop off your entry with the 3-page Philippine submission form which can be downloaded at this link and drop it off at The One Minutes box at the UPFI Film Center c/o Yason Banal, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City. Telephone: (632) 926-3640, 926-2722.Deadline for Philippine entries: 25 November 2010 Submission period: 15 November to 25 November 2010
For questions relating to The One Minutes Awards, contact The One Minutes directly at info@theoneminutes.org. For questions relating to submission of Philippine entries, contact Visual Pond at visualpond@gmail.com
Visual Pond presents Ronald Caringalfor the third episode of the Philippine contemporary art series ARTiculation. After leaving his advertising studies at the University of Santo Tomas, Caringal taught himself to paint and pursued a process which results in even and crisp visuals that are further intensified by the use of fashionable colors. His paintings' pop-sensibility and superficial looks coat the artist's personal experiences and memories which lay behind his works. He challenges audiences to look into deeper meanings behind seemingly facile images, including the environment of the mass media. Caringal, who is also the director of the independent art space Cubicle Art Gallery which will reopen later in the year, recently launched his latest solo exhibition, Puff the Magic Jargon, on view at Blanc Peninsula Manila till 24 July 2010.
Created and produced by Visual Pond, ARTiculation is the only series of its kind locally. Consisting of ten videos released online throughout the year, each episode features an artist talking about his/her body of work such as themes, influences and motivations. The series, shot and edited with a low budget, aims to be a critical and easily accessible resource for curators, writers, students, academics and anyone who wants to learn more about contemporary artists from the Philippines.
RONALD CARINGAL Born 1980 Works and lives in Manila, Philippines
Solo Exhibitions 2010 Puff the Magic Jargon, Blanc Peninsula Manila 2009 First Impression Lusts, Hiraya Gallery, Manila 2008 Sigh, The Cubicle Art Gallery, Manila 2008 COMMITMENT ReISSUES, Utterly Art Gallery, Singapore 2005 I Hardly Recognize You, Store for All Seasons, Manila 2005 Fuck Art, Sex Sells, and the Science of Body Language, The Cubicle Art Gallery, Manila
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 The Silence of Meaning, Metro Gallery, Manila 2009 Critical Thinking, Whitebox Gallery, Manila 2009 18 x 24, Metro Gallery, Manila 2008 TutoKKK, Blanc Gallery, Manila 2007 The December Show, Blanc Gallery, Manila 2007 BOXED, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila 2006 BOXED, Big Sky Mind, Manila 2005 On Paper, Mag:net Gallery ABS-CBN, Manila 2005 Flippin' Out, Goliath Gallery, New York 2005 Quit Playing Games with my Art, Alliance Francais de Manille, Manila 2004 Everyday Fools, UFO Gallery, Manila 2004 Generating Preview, The Cubicle Art Gallery, Manila 2003 Go Chop Suey Go!, Big Sky Mind, Manila 2003 Lift Me Up, The Cubicle Art Gallery, Manila 2003 Pag-ibig Findings 2, The Cubicle Art Gallery, Manila 2003 Dog Show 2, The Cubicle Art Gallery, Manila 2003 Dog Show, UFO Gallery, Manila 2002 Pag-ibig Findings, The Cubicle Art Gallery, Manila 2002 One, The Cubicle Art Gallery, Manila
More images of Caringal's work at ronaldcaringal.multiply.com
