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with Patrick Flores, Jorge B Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines. Part of 'Curating Development' - Autumn Term Seminar Series 2017
This paper contributes to the conversation on the discourse of the curatorial and the implications of development by marking “developmental” as both an aesthetic and an ethic. It explores the museum as the site of the developmental that is co-implicated in a range of decisions with regard to the production of exhibitions, formation of publics, and the circulation of art worlds. It revisits the concept of “developmental art” by Raymundo Albano who worked as a curator at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in the seventies. Alongside this reflection, it discusses the recent initiatives of the Vargas Museum to widen its commitments as a university museum as it engages with efforts in the social sphere to participate in political critique. In this paper, the curatorial and the developmental come in contact to generate a different scheme of the institutional and the (inter)national.
About the speaker
Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003, and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He was one of the curators of Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art in 2000 and the Gwangju Biennale (Position Papers) in 2008. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellow in 2004. Among his publications are Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (1999); Remarkable Collection: Art, History, and the National Museum (2006); and Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008). He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council (2010) and a member of the Advisory Board of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 (2011) organized by the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and member of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council (2011 and 2014). He co-edited the Southeast Asian issue with Joan Kee for Third Text (2011). He convened in 2013 on behalf of the Clark Institute and the Department of Art Studies of the University of the Philippines the conference “Histories of Art History in Southeast Asia” in Manila. He was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. He curated an exhibition of contemporary art from Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe titled South by Southeast and the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
Image used- ‘Vargas Museum with a Bamboo Theatre, Fuminori Nousaku in collaboration with Rosario Encarnacion-Tan
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| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 29 Nov 2017 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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