ARTFAIRPH/TALKS

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Archival collections have gained significance in terms of its historical and artistic values as well as for its contribution to the practices of contemporary artists and filmmakers. This panel includes archivists, art historians, curators, and artists involved in managing different archival collections who will share strategies in archival management and approaches in public access while maintaining security and ethical concerns.

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About the Speaker/s

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Eileen Legaspi Ramirez

Eileen Legaspi Ramirez is an Associate Professor of the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Art Studies. Currently working within UP’s Doctorate in Social Development program in line with research on the understudied plight of labor and potencies of cultural work particularly in the context of site-specific community art initiatives across the Philippines. She continues to work across the fields of criticism and art history. She presently serves as editorial collective member of the journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, as well as Research Advisory Committee member of The Flow of History collaborative project between Asia Art Archive and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions. She is Editor of Thirteen Artists: Cipher of Stasis and Flux, an upcoming book on the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists co-published by the CCP and Eskinita Art Farm.


ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Bono Olgado

Benedict “Bono” Salazar Olgado, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies, where he teaches archival theory and practice. He is the founding director of the National Film Archives of the Philippines and has worked on landmark restorations, including Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (1975/2013) and On My Way to India, Consciousness I Reached China (1968/2013). Beyond film preservation, he consults on archiving and collection management for institutional and private art collections, and has advised artists’ archives including that of Danilo Dalena, At Macalungan, and Roberto Chabet. He also collaborates with artists in tracing, interpreting, and writing on the intersections of archival engagement and artistic intervention. He has programmed films for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and has served as editor for NANG (“Archival Imaginaries,” 2021) and Plaridel ("Philippine Cinema and the Archives,” 2018). He is currently working on his book, Reconfiguring the Empire of Memory: Studying the Entanglements of Filipino Archival Practices, Artistic Interventions, and Data Work.


Mayumi Hirano

Mayumi Hirano is a curator, researcher, and the director of the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Center.
She is the co-founder of the artistic platform Load na Dito Projects and teaches in the curatorial studies program at the University of the Philippines Diliman and the Art Management Program at Ateneo de Manila University.

Her recent curatorial work includes Panultol (VIVA-ExCon, 2023), Trace the Tracelessness of
the Ant (PKL Center, 2023), and the book project Standing by a Doorway (2023). A former
Nippon Foundation Asian Public Intellectual Fellow, she has conducted extensive research on
artistic collaborations in the Philippines and Thailand. Her writing and research have been
featured in publications by the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN) and NUS Press.

Yason Banal

Yason Banal is an artist working with various forms, concepts and intersections among systems, mechanisms and nuances especially around crucial times. He obtained a BA in Film at the University of the Philippines, Diliman and an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as various juried artist residencies including brief lectureships at London Metropolitan University and Tokyo University of Fine Arts. His works have been exhibited widely in various contexts, projects, galleries, alternative spaces, biennales and museums both locally and internationally, with recent exhibitions including The Drawing Room Manila (2022, 2023); ALT Philippines (2020-2021); Metropolitan Museum Manila (2019-2020); Asia Film Archive Singapore, SOAS London, 47 Canal New York (2019); Venice Architecture Biennale (2018). As an invited curator and programmer, he has worked on exhibitions and screenings for the Andy Warhol Museum, Osage Art Foundation, Tate Modern, Asia Pacific Triennial, ICA London and UPFI Film Center. Just recently he had a solo exhibition at the Drawing Room, produced a novella and was jury member at the Singapore International Film Festival. He is currently Director of the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) where he is also associate professor and full-time faculty.


Isa Nazareno

Isa Nazareno is an Assistant Professor with the Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University. She was former Executive Director of the Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (ALiWW), a special collection of the Ateneo Rizal Library, and is currently part of its Board of Directors. She also serves as a consultant for the Lopez Museum and Library.