Tacloban City, a short by Maria Julie Anne T. Culibar Whether natural or man-made, disasters can destroy vast assets, lives and memories in a matter of seconds, or can be protracted and impact over time. Disasters can be incredibly complex events that can quickly set developmental gains back decades in a country or region. I…
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October – December, 2015 Introduction By The Curator Field Trip Project Asia is a multi-site artistic intervention that provokes questions on environmental sustainability, disaster in heritage sites, and the creative strategies for place-making to respond to these challenges. Using the Japanese backpack as trope, the project bridges artists with publics, involving them as participants in…
View MoreParticipating artists and co-curators of Field Trip Project Asia gather at 98-B Headquarters to “unpack” their insights on their artistic practice and engagements in the local. How do particularities within local contexts compel an international project to adapt? What issues arise out of this?
View MoreUniversity of Asia and the Pacific Ortigas Pasig City, Metro Manila November 11, 2015 Together with cultural workers, student organizations and scholars who were involved in relief operations and long-term recovery programs in Leyte, Daisuke Takeya presented as one of the resource persons at the Symposium on Disaster Studies at the University of Asia and…
View MoreUniversity of the Philippines Vargas Museum, Metro Manila November 12 – December 11, 2015 Field Trip Project Asia Philippines is a multi-site artistic intervention to stimulate conversations about disasters, resilience, and place-making. Having travelled from Japan, Canada, and Singapore until they reached the Philippines, the artistically transformed Japanese backpacks or randoseru were brought to Baguio…
View MoreNovember 4 – 6, 2015 Cabuynan Elementary School Tanauan, Leyte Cabuynan Elementary School in Tanauan, Leyte became the site of a mobile art exhibition and workshops involving students, parents, and teachers. Five collaborators visited the school. Aside from co-curators Daisuke Takeya and Laya Boquiren, three artists gave workshops in relation to their art work, as…
View MoreField Trip Walk in Post-Earthquake Sites Baguio City is a disaster waiting to happen all over again. On July 16, 1990, the Great Northern Luzon Earthquake struck and brought the entire city to ruin. Millions worth of infrastructure crumbled to the ground. Worse, many human lives were lost. After that followed a series of urban…
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View MoreA day before the field trip around post-earthquake sites around Baguio City, curators Daisuke Takeya and Laya Boquiren conversed with local artists in Baguio about their praxis — how does advocacy and identity shape their approach to art? Some of the randoseru were also displayed in a pop-up exhibit at Cafe Yagam where participants were invited to…
View MoreOctober 26- 28, 2015 Before artist-collaborators touch down in Leyte, co-curators Daisuke Takeya and Laya Boquiren first traveled to Baguio City to collaborate with Baguio-based artist-teacher Jhoan Medrano. Together with her students at the University of the Philippines, they walked around sites that were once damaged by the Great Earthquake of Northern Luzon in 1991…
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