In this session, four artists will discuss their artistic approaches to media such as video, the Internet, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explore the intersections between traditional and contemporary modes of artmaking. The session will also exchange the artists’ insights on the recent swift shift to the virtual space, forced by the pandemic. How would the digital and online platforms affect our experience and perception of art? Jed Gregorio Marlon Hacla Alfred Marasigan Tanya Villanueva Moderated by Load na Dito (Mark Salvatus and Mayumi Hirano) Watch the event footage on Youtube. About the Speakers Jed Gregorio Jed Gregorio (b. 1990) is a Filipino artist who lives and works in Manila, Philippines. His broad artistic practice encompasses photography, filmmaking, installation, and performance. Often informed by themes of politics of religiosity, masculinity, and post-Internet art histories, Gregorio’s free-ranging poetics manifest as serial and anthological projects that span multiple platforms, exhibitions, and diffusions, each operating in a hermeneutical cosmology developed through hyperfictional and multimedia strategies — from discrete works in assemblage and sculptural installation, to spatially expansive milieu constructed with images, objects, sound, and light. Gregorio’s current project-in-progress “Frat” was introduced in the tail-end of 2020, with “Act 1: Kristo Disco” and “Act 2: Monochrome One” presented in succession in context-specific premises. Gregorio graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Major in Communication, from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2011. Marlon Hacla Marlon Hacla is an artist exploring artificial intelligence as a tool for understanding artistic subjectivity and creative human agency. He lives in Quezon City with his cats. Alfred Marasigan Heavily inspired by emotional geography, slow TV, and magic realism, Alfred Marasigan (b. 1992) conducts serendipitous research and transmedial practices primarily through livestreaming. Marasigan graduated in 2019 with an MA in Contemporary Art from UiT Arctic University of Norway’s Kunstakademiet i Tromsø and is a Norwegian Council of the Arts Grantee for Newly Graduated Artists. Currently based in Manila, he is now a faculty member of Ateneo de Manila University’s Fine Arts Department for half a decade. Tanya Villanueva Tanya Villanueva is a 37 year old artist born in Valenzuela, Philippines. Her work has developed over the years from looking into work and production of art objects through the lens of painting, photography and craft; to exploring the performative nature of this cultural labor through the use of video installations, textile projects and collaborations. Her art is informed by her work as a single-mother, a working-class art practitioner and her struggle with chronic depression and anxiety. Her work has been shown locally at institutions, commercial contemporary galleries and artist-run spaces. She had various art projects outside the county through artist-run spaces in Queens, San Francisco as well as an exhibition at a curator’s residence in Manhattan. Tanya holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines and a Dressmaking certificate from Miriam College. She works and lives in Quezon City, Philippines.

We explore with Xlvrbk (@xlvrbk), squirterer (@hidetheblade) and Shelly Soneja (@shellysoneja) on how and when they first heard about crypto and crypto art. Why did they take the plunge? What has been their experience in the space thus far? Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Xlvrbk Xlvrbk is an experimental digital artist based in Cebu, Philippines. Exploring the edges of digital art, from VR, 3D, video art, and sound design and currently experimenting with the distribution of digital art assets using blockchain technology through non-fungible tokens (NFT). Click here to see Xlvrbk, Shelly Soneja and squirterer on The Artist Journey: A Chat with Three Artists and Their Journey into Making NFTs. squirterer A fine artist from Mindanao, Philippines, Vyankka started getting interested in cryptocurrencies and the blockchain in 2018, which led her to discover NFTs in March 2020. She is widely known as ”squirterer” in the cryptoart space. Her works range from traditional and digital paintings, GIF art and photography. She explores themes about self-exploration, identity, and human experiences and fantasies. Click here to see Xlvrbk, Shelly Soneja and squirterer on The Artist Journey: A Chat with Three Artists and Their Journey into Making NFTs. Shelly Soneja Shelly Soneja is an Art Director for mobile and blockchain games. While she has been an artist for blockchain games since 2018, she only started minting her own digital art as NFTs in September 2020 while under lockdown. She is now on a number of NFT art platforms, has had her work exhibited in several art galleries in the metaverse, and helps maintain and update the Narra Art Gallery in Decentraland for different events and exhibits. Click here to see Xlvrbk, Shelly Soneja and squirterer on The Artist Journey: A Chat with Three Artists and Their Journey into Making NFTs. Moderated by: Chris Fussner of Tropical Futures Institute. Gabby Dizon of Narra Gallery Learn more about Chris and Gabby from our Curators Page.

Harm van den Dorpel, artist and co-founder of left gallery, shares some of pre-NFT artwork exhibited by his gallery. These digital pieces explored some early blockchain-related concepts that expand the digital artspace today. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Harm is a Berlin based artist and co-founder of left gallery. His work dedicated to discovering emergent aesthetics by composing software and language, borrowing from disparate fields such as genetics and blockchain.

The art of fine print has a long history in the Southeast Asian region, dating as far back as pre-colonial times. Contemporary printmakers continue to traverse through its traditional techniques and processes as well as to expand the forms and contexts of this graphic medium. Malaysian printmaker Juhari Said proposes the session title “Expanded Printmaking”, a trajectory which he and colleagues in the region have pursued for over a decade. Together with Filipino printmaker Ambie Abaño, they will discuss how artists have expanded the ways in which printing techniques or the printed image are employed in visual art practice. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Juhari Said Juhari Said gained his formal art education from MARA University of Technology(UITM)graduating in 1983.Eight years later,he won the Permodalan Nasional Berhad Prize and the main prize in the printmaking category at Salon Malaysia. Ambie Abaño Ambie is an artist-printmaker who specializes in woodcut. Her explorations in printmaking afforded her to produce hybrid prints in large scale wall bound works, installations, and sculptural works. She is a Professor at the UP College of Fine Arts Diliman and a Board Member of the Association of Pinoyprintmakers. She was a grantee of the Philippine Artist Residency Program (PARP) for a residency in France, the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) for residency in New York and has gone for other residencies and art camps in India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia. She has won in local art competitions and international printmaking competitions.

While 2020 will forever be remembered as the year of COVID-19, it was also witness to the rise of cryptocurrency and a popularised, mass-cultural form of the scarcity-based art market. This international panel-discussion will focus on the recent hype surrounding nonfungible tokens (NFTs), or cryptocurrency’s answer to the unique art object, and assess what it means for the practice of art around the world. Tracking the impact of NFTs on economic, technological, societal and practical levels, the panel will look at the rise of the NFT from the point of view of artists, collectors and critics. Are NFTs just a passing fad for a global artworld that’s currently grounded? A means by which to consume energy now that global travel is (largely) off the cards? How might they change the practice, collection and distribution of art around the globe? To what extent are NFTs a sign of the revenge of popular culture against the elite cultures, gatekeepers and tastemakers of traditional fine arts? Might paintings be phased out in favour of JPEGS? And, more basically, how do NFTs function as artworks and are they any good? ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Rahel Aima, writer, editor and critic Rahel Aima is a writer, editor and critic based in Dubai. Her writing has appeared in ArtReview Asia, The Atlantic, Bidoun, Bookforum, Garage, New Republic, Vogue Arabia and World Policy Journal, and covers among other subjects, emergent technologies, technology as a politically non-neutral space, and postwesternism in the Arabian Gulf. Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Tina Rivers Ryan is a curator of modern and contemporary art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and an expert on the history of art and technology, including the early decades of video and digital art. Her exhibitions include the first solo museum show of Aria Dean (2018) and, with Paul Vanouse, the upcoming survey “Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art” (2021). Her essays have appeared in numerous catalogues and academic journals and magazines including Art Journal and Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media and Artforum, which features her take on NFTs in its current issue. Speak Cryptic, artist Farizwan Fajar, professionally known as Speak Cryptic, is a visual artist based in Singapore. Inspired by the visual language prevalent within the cultures of comics and underground music, his works primarily deal with the issues pertaining to the human condition. Utilising personal iconographies and a cast of characters that he has developed over the years, he applies them to various narratives inspired by his observations on current affairs and his immediate environment. He was among the first Singaporean artists to produce and sell NFT artworks. Moderated by JJ Charlesworth, Editor of ArtReview JJ Charlesworth is a writer, art critic and editor at ArtReview. He studied art at Goldsmiths College in London in the mid-1990s, before turning to writing criticism. His reviews, articles and commentaries have also appeared in publications and websites including The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and CNN Style. His take on NFTs and the artworld can be read at artreview.com

Katya Guerrero (Founder), Lara de Los Reyes (Digitization and Photo Restoration), Miguel Gomez II (Post-Processing and File Management), Louis de Mesa (Printing and Framing) with special guest JPaul Manzanilla (Independent Researcher) will give annotations about Philippine photography as the Luzviminda team discuss their challenges ABOUT THE SPEAKERS LUZVIMINDA Katya Guerrero (Founder) Lara de Los Reyes (Digitization and Photo Restoration) Miguel Gomez II (Post-Processing and File Management) Louis de Mesa (Printing and Framing) Luzviminda is an archive of Philippine photography under development at Pioneer Studios. Their main interests are in photographs that correspond to important moments in Philippine history, represent the history of Philippine photography, unique personal photo-based works, and of the world at large by Filipino photo practitioners. JPaul Manzanilla (Independent Researcher) JPaul S. Manzanilla finished his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore focusing on the history of photography in the Philippines. In his dissertation, he examined the optical unconscious in American colonial era photographs; the problem of place in postwar newspaper and magazine pictures; the interrelationship of photography, revolution, and historical consciousness in protest demonstration photos; and the crisis of witnessing in the documentary photographs of the drug war. He has engaged in research and presented papers at conferences in the Philippines, India, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Canada, the UnitedStates, and Thailand. He would be happy to contribute to building a photography and visual culture archive in the country

A panel discussion with the five residency program hosts to inaugurate the newly-launched section of the fair, ArtFairPH/Residencies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Don Papa Rum Established in 2012, Don Papa Rum is a locally produced rum made in Negros Occidental, Philippines from distilled from sugar cane molasses. Learn more at donpaparum.com Speakers: Fr. Jett Villarin, SJ of Manila Observatory Fr Jose Ramon Villarin SJ is the immediate past president of the Ateneo de Manila University. He holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Tech, an MS in Physics from Marquette University, and BS in Physics from Ateneo de Manila. He is a member of the National Panel of Technical Experts of the Climate Change Commission of the Philippines. His past commitments include serving as lead reviewer of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in which capacity he audited the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries; and as member of the UN Consultative Group of Experts, which helped strengthen the capacity of developing countries to deal with climate change. He was also a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a global group of scientists that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with former US Vice President Al Gore. He is coordinating author of “The 2016 Philippine Climate Change Assessment: The Physical Science Basis” which was written with several Filipino scientists to evaluate the state of climate science in the country. He continues to serve as Senior Science Adviser of the Manila Observatory, and to chair Synergeia, an NGO dedicated to public education reform in the country. He is currently on sabbatical and is preparing to go back to teaching and research. Manny Garibay of Linangan Art Residency Emmanuel “Manny” Garibay b. 1962 is known for his expressionist figurative style and the keen socio-political content of many of his works. He believes art can help awaken people’s consciousness so they can pull themselves out of their despondency and bring about empowered change. Aside from being a prolific internationally established painter, he’s also an active cultural organizer who has headed various art and cultural organizations since his student days. He is currently chairman of Artletics, an artist-led organization that empowers communities through art education. Artletics runs the Linangan Art Residency Program in Alfonso, Cavite which hones artistic and leadership skills in young talents through mentored studio practice, art classes, and immersion in community-building projects. David Loughran of Emerging Islands David Loughran is an independent curator and creative director based in La Union. In 2018, he co-opened LIMBO, a midnight gallery and bar in Makati that gave way to emerging contemporary artists finding their experimental voice in a community built on creative symbiosis. He employs a fiction-as-framework approach in his curatorial practice, and is interested in alternative world-making projects, and the conceptual spaces that exist between art and design. Nicola Sebastian of Emerging Islands Nicola Sebastian is a writer, surfer, and National Geographic explorer living in La Union. She is interested in “islandness,” both as space and sensibility. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, New York, where she also taught fiction writing to undergraduates. She is working on an ecological memoir on disaster, discovery, and the Philippines. Alexis Oshima of Butanding Barrio Alexis grew up swimming in El Nido waters when the coral reefs were still clinging onto life, before living out her formal education years in small, medium and large cities: Oxford, London and Manila, perpetually vacillating between science and art. She now finds herself back in nature trying to meld the two. Charlie Co of The Orange Project Artist Residency (b.1960, Negros) has produced more than 40 solo exhibitions since 1983, presented internationally in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and The Philippines. A mature and prolific career, Co established his own distinctive style early on, an individuality that has awarded him many accolades among them the 13 Artists Award (1990), Juror’s Choice of The 6th Philip Morris ASEAN Art Awards (1999), an Artist in Residence in Japan, China and Australia, Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan (Pintura) (2003), and the Dr. Jose Rizal Award for Excellence (2007). Furthermore, Co has represented the Philippines in important regional surveys including Brazil’s 23rd Sao Paulo Biennale (1996), 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial (Australia 1996),“Asian Modernism” at the JapanFoundation Asian Cultural Centre, Tokyo (1995, traveling to Bangkok and Jakarta). Despite his successes Co’s practice has remained deeply rooted to his home of Bacolod City, where he runs and co-owns Orange Project supporting emerging Visayan talent. Co was pivotal in establishing VIVA EX-CON (Visayan Visual Art Exhibition and Conference) in 1990 and is currently the longest running biennial in the Philippines. Through his career, Co has consistently recorded our times: socially alert, politically astute, and globally concerned. His paintings are loaded with symbols, deeply personal and allegorical with a vibrant palette and quick sketchy style. Co is also known for his multi-disciplinary works, turning to clay and mixed media, oil pastel, pen and ink and most recently, acrylic modelling paste on canvas. Charlie Co is represented in major public collections including the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery Australia, Metropolitan Muse- um and Lopez Museum Manila, the BenCab Museum Baguio, Philippines and private collections globally.

Sam Hart is a strategist, organizer and publisher working across the decentralized web. His energies are currently directed toward the Interchain Foundation, Other Internet, and various crypto art projects. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Sam Hart (@hxrts) Sam Hart is a strategist, organizer and publisher working across the decentralized web. His energies are currently directed toward the Interchain Foundation, Other Internet, and various crypto art projects. Chris Fussner of Tropical Futures Institute. Learn more about Chris from our Curators Page.

Join Daata founder David Gryn, artists Petra Cortright, Jeremy Couillard, and Keiken, in a discussion of their work presented for Art Fair Philippines 2021. The talk is moderated by Tyler Woolcott of Founder and Director, StudioVisit. Watch the event footage on Youtube. Daata Founded in 2015 by David Gryn, Daata is the leading platform for digital artworks. Daata commissions original, digital artworks by established and emerging artists, allowing viewers to stream or download high-quality digital artworks on any device. Daata offers a simple way to build, curate, and display a collection of high-quality digital artworks without the additional costs of space, storage and security. About the artists: Petra Cortright Petra Cortright (b. 1986, Santa Barbara, CA) is a contemporary artist whose multifaceted artistic practice stems from creating and manipulating digital files. Cortright’s digitally-conceived artworks physically exist in many forms – printed onto archival surfaces, projected onto existing architecture, or mechanically carved from stone. A notable member of what became known as the ‘Post Internet’ art movement of the mid-to-late-2000s with her YouTube videos and online exhibitions, Cortright later began to laboriously craft digital paintings by creating layer upon layer of manipulated images in Photoshop which she then rendered onto materials such as aluminum, linen, paper, and acrylic sheets. Cortright’s role as an artist is a blend of painter, graphic designer, editor, and producer; culminating in a singular artistic reflection of contemporary visual culture. Jeremy Couillard Educated as a painter, Couillard is a self-taught new media artist who has made numerous well-received and internationally exhibited video, virtual reality, and video game works, accompanied by installations, paintings, and ephemera. His works often deploy humorous narratives about future dystopias to explore what motivates us as humans to work, live, and create. Jeremy Couillard was born in 1980 in Michigan. He received his MFA from Columbia University and his BA from Michigan State University. Couillard has exhibited at Zabludowicz Collection (London, U.K.), Phillips Auction House (co-commissioned by daata editions) (New York, NY), yours, mine & ours gallery (New York, NY), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Louis B. James (New York, NY), Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), and has screened his work at the New Museum and Rhizome (New York, NY), Salon 94 (New York, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA). Couillard’s work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, VICE’s The Creators Project, The Washington Post, FAD, artnet news, ARTNews, the Huffington Post, and the Observer. Couillard’s work is in important collections including the Zabludowicz Collection. Read more about the artist on this link. Keiken Keiken are a collaborative practice, co-founded by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015, who frequently work with multiple collaborators. Based between London and Berlin, they come from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican/Japanese/European/Jewish). Keiken, the Japanese word for experience, create speculative worlds, using moving-image, CGI, gaming software, installation, virtual and augmented reality, programming and performance to merge the physical and digital. Their work simulates new structures and ways of existing, exploring how societal introjection governs the way we feel, think and perceive. Recent exhibitions and projects include: E-motion Graphics, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2021, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo (2021); The Time Complex, Yerevan Biennial, Online; Augmented Empathy, FACT, Liverpool; The Metaverse Womb, 3hd 2020, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Ghosts & Apparitions, Sheffield Doc Fest, Online; Metaverse: We are at the end of something, Mira Festival, IDEAL, Barcelona; Sessions, Block Universe, Online; The Artist is Online, Koenig Galerie, Online; How to Make a Paradise, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, The Eternal Network transmediale 2020, Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW, Berlin (2020); Image Behaviour, ICA, London; Jerwood Collaborate!, Jerwood Arts, London (2019).

This illustrated talk will explore the unique career of artist and collector Fernando Zóbel (1924–1984). Born into a Spanish family in the Philippines, where he was raised, and educated in Europe, Manila, and the United States, Zóbel truly belonged to three continents. In 1955 he became enamored with the unique vitality of Spanish abstract art upon visiting the gallery of Fernando Fe in Madrid, where he saw works by Antoni Tàpies, Eduardo Chillida, Antonio Saura, and Luis Feito, among others. In collecting their paintings and sculptures, Zóbel recognized the importance of promoting and securing their legacy in Francoist Spain, which at the time was culturally isolated and lacked an infrastructure to support the artistic avant-gardes. His belief in their work, and in the visual language of abstraction, led him to establish, together with the artists, the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in 1966. This presentation will illuminate details of the museum’s curatorial project during its first two decades, as well as Zóbel’s development as an artist during this period. Watch the event footage on Youtube. Anna Wieck, Ph.D. Anna Wieck (PhD University of Michigan, 2016) is an art historian and museum professional. She has taught at the University of Michigan and George Washington University, and has recently held positions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid. Dr. Wieck is currently an adjunct professor in the Arts & Humanities Division at IE University, Segovia. Adjunct Professor, Arts & Humanities Division, IE University

Cebuano artists, Russ Ligtas, Kolown, Ivy Marie Apa, and Ronyel Compra will discuss their creative practices that expand their local geographical connection, explore unusual artistic forms, and engage relevant societal issues. Moderated by Fr. Jason Dy, S.J. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Russ Ligtas Russ Ligtas presents performance, installation, choreography, and film from a practice emanating from a set of alter egos of which he uses as avatars to confront the vagaries of his immediate reality. From the universal intimacy of personal struggle to the specificities of the spectrum of contexts he inhabits, his multiple personalities express themselves, as presence, persona and myth, manifesting in a diversity of platforms that unravel the nuances of e-democracy, gender politics, and post-colonial identity. His work and collaborations have been presented across the Philippines, the US, Europe, and Asia— most recently at the Yokohama Triennale 2020 last year. In 2017, he was awarded the AET Koryograpiya Award for his movement practice based on Butoh and the pedestrian body. In the same year, he received an Asian Cultural Council Grant to investigate performance forms in New York, Thailand, and Indonesia. He has been granted residencies by the Academy of Everything is Possible(Dublin), Tentacles Art Space (Bangkok), Pier 2(Kaohsiung), Cudamani Institute(Bali), and Earth Island Insitute(USA) among others. He is currently a resident artist of the Casa San Miguel Center for the Arts in San Antonio (in Zambales, Philippines) and is one of the artist-mentors of the GlobalGrace Art in Residence program for LGBTQIA+ Artists in Laguna. Kolown They are a showbiz reporter. Maybe an artist. Failed street magician. Ivy Marie Apa Ivy Marie Apa is a practicing artist and academic. She worked as an illustrator for children’s literature of international publications before entering the academe. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and her master’s degree in Anthropology at the University of San Carlos, Cebu. She teaches art history and studio courses at the University of the Philippines Cebu. Ivy also teaches part-time in the Fine Arts program of the University of San Carlos. She is the former Chairperson of Regional Art Forum (RAF), a non-profit organization or network of visual artists, writers, community workers, and scholars that promote art reception and contemporary art practices in the regions. Ronyel Compra Ronyel Compra is a visual artist based in Cebu. He earned his BFA from the University of the Philippines Cebu. Compra creates his works mainly on various techniques within the production, the process involves different procedures that were mimicked from local crafts upon his observance of the practical trades of Nipa hut-weaving, boat-building and charcoal-making. What interests him are memories, history, and experiences which he often integrates in his art practice and his interest on the stories and ephemerality of things and situations, through his immediate surroundings and interactions. He explores his themes into multimedia, I.e. video, sculptural-installations, performances and printmaking. Shortlisted for 2019 Ateneo Art Awards for his work exhibited at Fundacion Sanso. His current work includes a series of LUTA which translates to frottage or rubbing. These were created through transferring a precise image from an actual texture or object into a piece of cloth or paper. Like the rubbings practiced by the ancient Chinese printers to come-up an exact ratio of 1:1 scale. He collaborated with a group of artists and non creative individuals to create a body of works. From 2015 and 2017, He immersed and collaborated with the Talaandig tribe artists who are known for using soil as the main ingredient of their paintings. He Co-founded KLMTW (kalimutaw) who participated and represented the Philippines in Georgetown festival in Penang and the PTTTK in Jogjakarta Indonesia last 2016 and 2017. During the concluded VIVA EXCON Capiz last November 2018, He, together with KLMTW, created a full scale rubbing of an old cemetery’s facade in Capiz. Employing the technique of rubbing with the use of local soil as main ingredient fusing parallel narratives into his own vocabulary. Fr. Jason Dy, SJ. Jason Dy, SJ (b. 1977, Philippines) is a Jesuit priest and Filipino contemporary artist who is currently lecturing at the Fine Arts Department of the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City. He is a self-taught artist who developed his artistic interests by attending art workshops, art classes, art conferences and art exhibitions as well as integrating art into his studies in theology and his priestly work in pastoral ministry. In 2009, he founded the Alternative Contemporary Art Studio (ACAS) at the garage of Sacred Heart Parish, Cebu City in order to promote contemporary art. After being a parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Parish and holding his solo exhibition Testimony of What Remains at the Fernando Amorsolo Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, he pursued his graduate studies in the arts, namely, MA by Creative Practice and MA in Art History and Curating at Liverpool Hope University, UK in 2013. Through his graduate studies, he is able to articulate his current creative practice that investigates “the community and studio-based responses to changing religious and cultural circumstances, locations and events” (LHU). Some of his important art projects include In Loving Memory, a participatory art ritual of remembering the dead that started during the All Souls’ Day at the Sacred Heart Parish, Cebu City, PH in 2009 and was included in the contemporary Christian art exhibition Arte + Fe curated by Maria Tarruella at the Pons Fundacion, Madrid, Spain (2011); Barter, an art project that reacted to the 2016 Kidapawan Protest seeking rice subsidy from the government rather than the violent treatment of farmers as well as appropriating the traditional mode of exchange through the barter system to reflect on the various exchanges that is happening in Lucban, Quezon, PH, in collaboration with Barangay Piis, Lucban at the Project Space Pilipinas (2016); and Procesion de los Camareros in response of Japanese invasion in 8 December 2018 on the day of an important Marian procession in Intramuros during the Spanish colonial period was a commissioned art project of the first Manila Biennale Open City curated by Ringo Bunoan with the participation of the fifteen pedicab drivers from Barangay 655, Intramuros, Manila, PH (2017-2018). His latest curatorial project was Yellow Ambiguities at the Ateneo Art Gallery (August 2019-January 2020) together with the poet and art writer Carlomar Daoana. The co-curated exhibition explored the complexity of the color yellow in the Philippine context. Currently, since the lockdown in March 2020 because of the pandemic, Dy has been arranging flowers as part of the ongoing art project Arrange/Enliven. These floral arrangements are installed either at the studio of Jesuit Communications, Sonulox Building or at the Church of the Gesú, Ateneo de Manila, for the daily online masses. Photographs of these arrangements are posted on his Facebook page.

A talk by UK-based Painting Conservator and Art Historian Angelica Pediconi. Moderated by Boots Herrera. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Angelica trained as a Painting Conservator and Art Historian in Rome prior to moving to London where she received a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Art /V&A Museum with a specialization in Renaissance Material Culture. Since then she has worked as an independent Old/Modern Masters Paintings Restorer for public and private institutions and as an Art Historian. She has published several articles focusing on the Patronage of XVI c. Cardinals in Rome. She is a passionate collector of Fine Art Photography.

Luis Buenaventura, a blockchain entrepreneur and crypto artist conducts a ‘how to NFT’ session directed towards everyone that wants to participate in the cryptoart ecosystem. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Luis Buenaventura (@helloluis) Luis Buenaventura is a crypto artist and entrepreneur based in Manila, Philippines. He has been working in the Bitcoin industry since early 2014. His illustrations are his contribution to his community and he aims to make the complicated world of crypto a little bit more accessible, familiar, and fun. Chris Fussner of Tropical Futures Institute. The founder of Tropical Futures Institute, a multi disciplinary think tank and studio based in Cebu. The gallery’s program focuses on cultural research and production in the tropics. This Filipino-American designer continues to look towards new ideas, models, practices, and communications. Tropical Futures Institute participates in art fairs and contemporary art events such as Art Dubai, SEA Focus, and Art Fair Philippines. Click here to see Chris speak about Narra Gallery, and with other artists and thought leaders as they share insights and trends on NFT.

Narra Gallery co-founder, Colin Goltra, sits down with one of the most prominent crypto artists in the space to discuss all things NFTs and some thoughts looking into its future. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Colin Galtra of Narra Gallery A Filipino-American technologist and financier based in Metro Manila and current Director of Southeast Asia at Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform. An avid collector of NFT-based crypto art, he co-founded Narra Gallery, a virtual gallery space and cultural capital fund meant to help bridge the divide between the Philippines and the crypto world. He runs Speculations, a well-followed crypto newsletter. His thoughts on the crypto art movement have also been featured globally in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Magazine, as well as numerous other crypto and NFT ecosystem publications. Chris Fussner of Tropical Futures Institute. The founder of Tropical Futures Institute, a multi disciplinary think tank and studio based in Cebu. The gallery’s program focuses on cultural research and production in the tropics. This Filipino-American designer continues to look towards new ideas, models, practices, and communications. Tropical Futures Institute participates in art fairs and contemporary art events such as Art Dubai, SEA Focus, and Art Fair Philippines. Nathaniel Parrott @itsparrott Nathaniel Parrott is a Seattle-based NFT artist that has already taken great steps forward into the growing NFT market. He has stated that NFTs are less about looking at the art and more about owning it. Parrott believed for years that he could only make it as an artist if he worked in the games or film industry, which would hamstring his creativity. Now, thankfully with the power of NFTs, he is able to create artwork that inspires him, as well as allowing him to make a very decent living off of the back of it.

Join us as our panel share reminiscences and personal stories of the artist. With Ambeth Ocampo, Andy Locsin, Tina Bonoan, and Malu Gamboa. Moderated by Boots Herrera. #ArtFairPH/Talks is presented in partnership with the Ateneo Art Gallery, Museum Foundation of the Philippines, and the international publication, Art Review. Watch the event footage on Youtube. Image courtesy of Ambeth Ocampo (Arturo Luz in his studio, 2014) ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Join us as our panel share reminiscences and personal stories of the artist. Photo Credit: Arturo Luz in his studio, 2014 Photo: Ambeth Ocampo

Ding Gerrous is a Paris-based Filipino photographer who will demonstrate the archaic ambrotype process of developing photographs taken with a vintage camera and printed on glass. Ding Gerrous is a Paris-based Filipino photographer who will demonstrate the archaic ambrotype process of developing photographs taken with a vintage camera and printed on glass. Moderated by Sandra Palomar and Cristina Herfort of Art/n23. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Ding Gerrous (@lagalagsaparis) Paris-based Filipino photographer Ding Gerrous brings to the fair the archaic process of wet plate collodion.

A workshop on basic paper engineering techniques to create pop-up collages. Participants will learn how to build three-dimensional pages for movable books. Participants will provide their own materials easily found at home. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Jel Suarez (b. 1990) is a self-taught artist based between Manila and Bacolod. She primarily moves as collector, hunter, gatherer, de/constructor, arranger. Suarez has been exhibiting her works since 2014, and has participated in art fairs in Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore. Her solo exhibitions with West Gallery (2018) and MO_Space Gallery (2019) were shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards, where she became the first recipient of it’s Italian Embassy’s Purchase Prize. Recent exhibitions include small bones, holding a mountain at West Gallery (2020), A will for prolific disclosures at The Drawing Room Gallery (2020), and her participation at ALT Philippines through MO_Space Gallery (2020).

Join visual artist Claude Tayag as he demonstrates the wet on wet watercolor techniques he has developed over more than forty-five years of exploring the medium. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Claude Tayag (born 1956, Angeles City, Pampanga) is a polymath who has pursued multiple careers to last several lifetimes. He is an accomplished painter, wood sculptor, furniture designer and manufacturer, an award-winning kusinero, a best-selling book author, a columnist for the Philippine Star, and a TV host for Chasing Flavors on the Metro Channel. Tayag is primarily a self-taught artist, taking up architecture and economics courses at the University of the Philippines. He considers his mentor, writer/painter, Emilio “Abé” Aguilar Cruz as his greatest influence in painting. He first entered into the Manila art scene in 1977, winning second prize award for his painting Ati-Atihan in the Art Association of the Philippines (AAP) annual art competition. A year later, he held his first one-man exhibition of watercolor paintings of Philippine folk festivals, folk santos, and Cordillera landscapes – works characterized by a colorful and forceful spontaneity and raw vigor. The succeeding years he went on to explore more in depth these same themes, but each focusing on specific subjects, i.e. Moriones, Kristos, a watercolor travelogue resulting from an eleven-month grand tour around the world in 1979-80; Cordillera landscapes (having lived in Baguio in 1983-84); and the Bokuseki Series in black and white using Japanese sumi or ink on rice paper. Tayag has had 18 one-man exhibitions since 1978, both in paintings and wood sculptures. He also has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Manila, Beijing, Wachington, D.C., and Madrid. His art is part of many private and public collections such as the Bangko Central ng Pilipinas, Bank of Philippine Islands, and PLDT. His more than forty years in the art scene culminated in a retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of the Philippines in July-September 2019.

Visual artist, Carina Santos will take you through the process of bookmaking with simple materials. This workshop is suited for ages 13 years old and up. Moderated by Boots Herrera. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Carina Santos Carina Santos is an artist, writer, and designer based between Manila and London. She utilizes different mediums to interrogate notions of subjectivity and space.

A demonstration by the Design Center of the Philippines, together with photographer Neal Oshima, on hand-making paper from piña and abaca fibers. Moderated by Alexis Oshima. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Special thanks to Rhea Matute and Jo Cruz of Design Center of the Philippines Neal Oshima Neal M. Oshima is an independent commercial, editorial and fine art photographer based in Manila, Philippines. Early training includes work as laboratory and field photographer at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii and as fine art photographer in San Francisco, California. After receiving his Masters of Art degree at California State University of San Francisco, Oshima began his career as a commercial photographer in Manila in the late 70’s, co-founding the Shadow Visual Design Group that serviced the advertising and design requirements of major retail groups in the Philippines, SM and theSari-Sari stores among them. After Shadow, he became an independent fashion and advertising photography for major clients such as Pepsi, Unilever, Coca-Cola, San Miguel, Levi-Strauss, Bench and Avon. Selected assignments include audio visual presentation for the Inno Sotto fashion show in Paris, France; fashion assignment for the Toppy group in Hong Kong and Maui, Hawaii; and multi-year Asian regional advertising campaigns for Levis. Oshima’s corporate photography for the Ayala Corporation helped them win awards for best annual report for two consecutive years. His advertising work has won numerous awards locally, in Europe and the US, as well as Cannes and the Cleo awards. Most recently he handled photography for the Coke Zero launch, as well as the 25th anniversary book for Toyota Motors Philippines, In the past decade, Oshima has turned his efforts to editorial work, specializing in large format photographic books with cultural, culinary or travel themes. His books include Dreamweavers, a documentation of the T’nalak weavers of the T’boli tribe in Lake Sebu, Mindanao; and Treasures of the Philippine National Museum published by Bookmark. Earlier works like Philippine Ancestral Houses by Dr. F. Zialcita and Subli by Dr. Elena Mirano have become significant Filipino reference sources. Other published work includes Flavors of the Philippines by Glenda Barretto, Beyond Rice by M. Paterno, Bamboo by M. Paterno and Philippine Forests by K. Delgado. Recent titles include Museum Treasures of SE Asia, a survey of the collections of the ASEAN national museums; Philippinas Incognitas, a book of unique travel images for the Philippine Pavilion of Aichi World Expo and Memories of Philippine Kitchens by Besa and Dorotan. His books have won over a dozen Philippine National Book Awards and Memories of Philippine Kitchens received a major citation from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP’s Jane Grigson award) and was named one of the top ten food books by the Times of London. In the past year Oshima has photographed a book on the pina and the barong, Garment of Honor and the best-selling Kulinarya on traditional Philippine foods. He recently completed photography for anniversary book of the Lopez Memorial Museum collection and Naimas, on the food of Ilocos Sur, as well as a book on the fashion designer Salvacion Lim Higgins and large-format travel books on Palawan, Puerto Princesa and Bukidnon. Recent exhibitions of Mr. Oshima’s work include Personal Visions: A Survey of Contemporary Photography at the Ayala Museum in 1999; Barot, a solo exhibit of photograms of traditional Philippine garments that opened the Sepia International Gallery in Soho, NYC; and Lovelock, an exhibit of hair landscapes at the Alliance Francaise, Manila in 2001. This year, at Silverlens Gallery he exhibited Play, a series of photograms exploring contemporary patterns of play among children. He has worked extensively with traditional silver-based print techniques. His platinum prints are part of major corporate and private collections in Europe, Asia and the United States. Two of his large photograms recently sold at auction in Sotheby’s HK. Mr. Oshima finished a Master of Arts in Fine Arts, concentrating on photography at the California State University at San Francisco following a Bachelor of Arts degree in archeology at the University of Hawaii and studies in architecture at Wesleyan University and the University of the Philippines. Mr. Oshima has won many international awards for his advertising and fine art work. He is currently working on several books and continues to experiment with alternative printing processes.

Learn about the technique of relief printmaking and create your own prints using found objects alongside visual artist and printmaker Mars Bugaoan. A workshop kit will be provided. This workshop is for participants based in Metro Manila due to shipping constraints. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Mars Bugaoan Mars Bugaoan (b. 1988) graduated cum laude with a degree in Advertising Arts at the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design in 2009. His range of works includes prints, drawings, mixed media, videos, sculptures to installations. Active in the local art scene, he has been featured in a two-man exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines as well as six solo exhibitions at Kapitana, Artinformal, Vinyl on Vinyl, and Pinto Art Museum. Aside from numerous local group shows, he has also been invited to join exhibitions internationally. He was shortlisted for the Ateneo Art Awards 2018 Fernando Zóbel Prizes in Visual Art and was voted People’s Choice for his exhibition “Becoming” at Artinformal. He is also a member of the Association of Pinoyprintmakers.

Tahanan Pottery Shop brings to Art Fair Philippines 2021 an ONLINE POTTERY MUG-MAKING WORKSHOP that offers participants the experience of working with clay at the comforts of their own home! Participants learn to hand-build their own clay mug using the slab-making technique and embellishing it with their choice of surface textures. Tahanan offers a unique range of glazes ang glaze combinations to enhance the mugs further. The workshop fee is inclusive of clay, tools, patterns, glazing, firing, packaging materials and all shipping requirements to and from Tahanan Pottery Shop and the participant. The workshop agenda, reminders and policy, references of texturing materials, pictures of sample mugs for inspiration and invitation to the zoom workshop link shall be sent to participants upon registration. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Rita B. Gudiño The workshop was facilitated by Prof. MA. RITA B. GUDIÑO, MFA from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UPCFA). Rita propelled the founding of the UPCFA Ceramic Studio in 2008 and continues to direct its programs and operations to this day. Her pioneering efforts in developing local stoneware clay body and creating a kiln within a sculptural volume in her creative work, LUAL Kiln Art has been academically and internationally acclaimed. Rita runs Tahanan Pottery Shop together with her potter-husband, Vicente Gudiño. Follow Rita and Vicente at Tahanan Pottery’s Instagram @tahananpottery.

The founders of Narra Gallery take us on a tour of their virtual gallery, share their origin story, and showcase some of the artists they have in their collection. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Chris Fussner The founder of Tropical Futures Institute, a multi disciplinary think tank and studio based in Cebu. The gallery’s program focuses on cultural research and production in the tropics. This Filipino-American designer continues to look towards new ideas, models, practices, and communications. Tropical Futures Institute participates in art fairs and contemporary art events such as Art Dubai, SEA Focus, and Art Fair Philippines. Colin Goltra A Filipino-American technologist and financier based in Metro Manila and current Director of Southeast Asia at Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform. An avid collector of NFT-based crypto art, he co-founded Narra Gallery, a virtual gallery space and cultural capital fund meant to help bridge the divide between the Philippines and the crypto world. He runs Speculations, a well-followed crypto newsletter. His thoughts on the crypto art movement have also been featured globally in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Magazine, as well as numerous other crypto and NFT ecosystem publications. Gabby Dizon An entrepreneur in the technology space for over 20 years. He is the co-founder of Altitude Games and Yield Guild Games and has been active in the NFT space since 2018. Gabby is also the co-owner of Narra Gallery, a metaverse art gallery and cultural capital fund.

In April 2020, contemporary art powerhouse, König Galerie, launched König Digital, a virtual gallery space for creating experiences online, presenting solo shows by new media artists such as Manuel Rossner and Thomas Webb. In March 2021, the gallery held its first NFT auction as part of the group show THE ARTIST IS ONLINE, which was on view at KÖNIG in Decentraland. These digital venues join the gallery’s roster of imaginative physical spaces at vibrant art hubs, from their original base of a former church in Berlin, to a renovated underground car park in London, to the MCM retail spaces in Tokyo, and Seoul. Listen as the gallery’s founder, Johann König, talks to ArtFairPH/ Projects curator, Chris Fussner, on how to show great art in two realms, from IRL to URL. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Johann König (@johann.koenig) Johann König is an entrepreneur and art mediator. In 2002, he founded KÖNIG GALERIE for contemporary art in Berlin, which today represents over 40 artists and focuses on interdisciplinary, concept-oriented, and space-based approaches that find expression in a variety of media. Chris Fussner The founder of Tropical Futures Institute, a multi disciplinary think tank and studio based in Cebu. The gallery’s program focuses on cultural research and production in the tropics. This Filipino-American designer continues to look towards new ideas, models, practices, and communications. Tropical Futures Institute participates in art fairs and contemporary art events such as Art Dubai, SEA Focus, and Art Fair Philippines.

The founders of Narra Gallery take us on a tour of their virtual gallery, share their origin story, and showcase some of the artists they have in their collection. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Chris Fussner The founder of Tropical Futures Institute, a multi disciplinary think tank and studio based in Cebu. The gallery’s program focuses on cultural research and production in the tropics. This Filipino-American designer continues to look towards new ideas, models, practices, and communications. Tropical Futures Institute participates in art fairs and contemporary art events such as Art Dubai, SEA Focus, and Art Fair Philippines. Colin Goltra A Filipino-American technologist and financier based in Metro Manila and current Director of Southeast Asia at Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform. An avid collector of NFT-based crypto art, he co-founded Narra Gallery, a virtual gallery space and cultural capital fund meant to help bridge the divide between the Philippines and the crypto world. He runs Speculations, a well-followed crypto newsletter. His thoughts on the crypto art movement have also been featured globally in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Magazine, as well as numerous other crypto and NFT ecosystem publications. Gabby Dizon An entrepreneur in the technology space for over 20 years. He is the co-founder of Altitude Games and Yield Guild Games and has been active in the NFT space since 2018. Gabby is also the co-owner of Narra Gallery, a metaverse art gallery and cultural capital fund.

Studio tours of six Baguio artists. Nona Garcia, Abbie Lara and Kawayan de Guia visit the studios of Carlo Villafuerte, Leonard Aguinaldo, John Frank Sabado, Mark Tandoyog, Rocky Cajigan and Olie Olivete. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Carlo Villafuerte (b. 1978) Showcasing his work in fabric art, Baguio-born Villafuerte pieces together recollections and impressions of the northern city using hand-sewn fabric. As a visual artist, Villafuerte works mainly with fabric, reworking used thread, cloth and small objects into new compositions. First producing functional pieces, Villafuerte eventually made works that were featured in group exhibitions at the Victor Oteyza Community Arts Space (VOCAS) in 2010, the 2013 Singapore Biennale, and the 2014 exhibit titled ‘Markets of Resistance’ held in Baguio. He currently has an exhibition at the Drawing Room Gallery in Makati. Leonardo Aguinaldo Leonard Aguinaldo’s work with rubbercut and woodcut medium serves as vivid records of local culture: a reverent, sometimes satirical, snapshot of people’s practices and customs, and the animating beliefs-the spiritual and inner worlds-that hover quietly within them. Spanning an artistic career of almost two decades , Aguinaldo has crafted depictions of highland and lowland life, traditions, indigenous and christian beliefs intertwined with social commentaries. A recipient of CCP’s Thirteen Artist Award in 2003 and the grand prize in the Asean Art Awards in Bangkok in 2004. Aguinaldo is recognized for championing ethnographic art, notable not only for how his chosen subject matter pays homage to the story of a people but also for how his technique and medium hark back to the place where they are made. Having been raised in Baguio, Aguinaldo takes inspiration from inherent craft, citing as his artistic influences the humble wood carver, weavers and artisans in his home town. The artist likewise revels in the ubiquity of folk art during fiestas and trade fairs in the province. John Frank Sabado He is a self-taught artist born in Mankayana, Benguet and now based in Baguio City. Sabado is known for his intricate artworks with themes that draw inspiration from Cordillera culture and beyond. In 2000, he was a recipient of the 13 Artists Award of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. In 2001, he was Juror’s Choice in the Philippine Art Awards and finalist to the 2002 ASEAN Art Awards in Bali, Indonesia. He was also a finalist to the Philippine Art Awards in 2003 and 2013. Sabado held a series of solo and group exhibitions in local and in prestigious international venues since 1990 to the present, such as the 3rd Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art Triennial in Brisbane, Australia (1999), 16th Asian International Art Exhibition in Guangdong, China (2001), 2nd Fukuoka Asia Art Triennale in Fukuoka, Japan (2002), and at the Gallery Rho in Seoul, Korea (2005) among others. Mark Tandoyog Mark Tandoyog’s works retrofit the anarcho-punk into everyday slogans on local politics. He also marks canvasses with pop satire that read as absurd more than the shock of conventional punk visuals. In one of his works, “SUGAR COATED EMPTINESS” is painted over an image of stacks of Coca-cola bottles.Tracing his ethnicity to the Kankanaey community, he lives and works in La Trinidad in the Cordillera Region where his graffiti line the streets. Mark Tandoyog, like most artists based in Baguio City and its peripheral towns, has no art school training. He practiced as a professional nurse before his shift into art-making. The rare union of “indigenous” and “punk” informs his “making,” pairing pop and folk imagery, humor and agitated sloganeering. The slogans are linguistically layered, satires are understood in different tones to dialect readers and readers in English. His wordplay is a testimony to the multilingual culture of his hometown where even the lingua franca is a mix of mountain Ilocano and Filipino. To Mark, his focus on dualities is more an engagement with his community as it assimilates to global capital. It is more than a strict philosophical construct in art-making. Rocky Cajigan His work in assemblage, installation, and painting are often focused on identity, transition, indigeneity, and decolonization. Works he has produced range from boxes filled with spiritual and ritual objects to installations of back strap looms repurposing discarded protest banners into threads. 
Cajigan’s work includes co-organizing and co-managing art projects in the Cordillera including the AX(iS) Art Project, an organization that since 2011 has gathered artists to assess what regional art means and public access around contemporary art. He is currently based in Benguet, Philippines where he continues to examine his Bontok indigenous history and what that placement holds in identity formation and representation. Olie Olivete He is a born and bred Baguio artist & he currently uses wood & tile mosaic, as well as mixed media in his artworks. As a Baguio native, he feels disadvantaged in expressing his “roots”since he doesn’t have a Cordilleran heritage compared to the other talented artists we have here in the North. Because of this, he looks for other ways he can express his love of the Cordilleran culture other than using conventional representation. Oliver believes that if an artwork doesn’t affect you either positively, negatively, nostalgically or emotionally, then it is just an ornament. That is why making the audience have a connection to his artworks is also what he aims for. He also wants to influence young artists looking at his artworks to “think outside the square” when expressing themselves. Experimenting with mediums typically not mixed together & pushing his creativity to its limits was brought about by his slow & painful recovery from a life-changing surgery. It was on November 2016 when he underwent a 19-hour surgery in Manila where the doctors removed 2 tumors in his esophagus and upper stomach. The surgery as well as the complications that followed when he was recovering here in Baguio are what “pushed” him to be more fearless when it comes to creating art. It’s as if the fear of dying made him fearless in his pursuit of creative self-expression. Olie won the grand prize in the competition/art exhibit “Kulay ng Siglo” of the 1st Creative Art Festival of Baguio last 2018. This was also at this time when he received a confirmation letter from NCCA that his one-man show proposal was approved. His one-man show titled “Laro Tayo: Pagkabilang ng 3 Nakatago na Kayo” opened on January 2020. Su Llamado Su Llamado lived and worked in the Philippines from 1985 to 1998 and from 2001 to 2005. She moved to Baguio in 1988 as a partner at Cafe by the Ruins. Some of the founding members of the Baguio Arts Guild (BAG) were also partners at Cafe by the Ruins. As a result, Su became increasingly active in BAG and as Secretary-Treasurer assisted in the organization and implementation of BAG’s activities, including the Baguio Arts Festivals. Su returned to the US in 2001 and during that time earned a Masters Degree in Arts Administration, with an emphasis on community development through the arts. Upon Su’s return to the Philippines in 2001, she was based in Manila but continued her work with members of BAG, assisting in the production of the film Showman-Shaman, a posthumous documentary about Robert Villanueva, the posthumous exhibition of Santiago Bose, Memories of a Talisman at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and as manager of the Pinikpikan Band. Abbie Lara Abbie Lara is a director and video editor. She is one of the editors and videographers for Kidlat Tahimik’s 35-year film-in-progress, Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment, that won the Caligari Prize in the Berlinale Forum during the 65th Berlinale Film Festival in 2015. The film also won Best Achievement in Film Editing, as well as Best Achievement in Cinematography and Visual Design at the Young Critics Circle Awards in 2015. Due to her extensive work as an editor and director for television documentary films, such as GMA’s i-Witness, she is often invited as a resource person for various workshops, including the Baguio leg of Film Development Council’s Make the Cut! Film Editing Workshop, which was held in 2016. Nona Garcia Born 1978 Manila, the Philippines Lives and works in Baguio City, the Philippines Nona Garcia probes into the essence of things, setting up a dichotomy between the transparent and concealed, framed and natural, the sublime and the everyday. In 2013, she relocated to mountainous Baguio City in Benguet Province. Since then she has responded to the immediacy of this landscape, creating large-scale, highly realistic paintings of scenes viewed in and around her new home. Garcia’s X-ray works are another key aspect of her practice. Focusing on Cordilleran and indigenous artefacts, reliquaries of saints, or delicate animal bones designed in the form of a mandala, she has created installations using lightboxes as well as window-based works. Paradoxically, the process of exposure results in images that are more mysterious — bathed in luminescent blue light, each flaw made visible, the bones and objects take on a new life. Kawayan de Guia Born 1979 Baguio City, the Philippines Lives and works in Baguio City, the Philippines

Take a studio tour with visual artist Alfredo Esquillo at his new art space, Eskinita Art Farm in Batangas, which also serves as an artist residency and gallery space. Watch the event footage on Youtube. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Alfredo “Eski” Esquillo He graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Sto. Tomas, and not long after started to receive recognition in local and regional art competitions. These include: the Philippine Art Awards and ASEAN Art Awards in 1995 and 1996, and the Thirteen Artists Awards from the Cultural Centre of the Philippines in 2000. As he established his brand of magic cum “social realist” style, his canvases became necessary fixtures in exhibitions that defined junctures in contemporary Philippine Art.