Jun 10, 20184 minYield Recording: Some notes On “Attitude of the Mind”by Lara Acuin ▶︎ Despite the wordiness of the visual-archival matter, it is the mixture of sound-music in “Attitude of the Mind” that...
Jun 5, 20183 minMonsters in white sneakersby Arnold Alamon ▶︎ CITIZEN Jake is a timely film deftly made by one of Philippine cinema’s living national treasures. Just like his...
May 30, 20185 minThrowback: The Singapore Biennale 2016 and Its Excess of Rhetoricby Katrina Stuart Santiago ▶︎ The mapping of art and nations through a biennale is a foregone conclusion when it is both premise and...
May 16, 20186 minThe Search for an Arts Communityby Katrina Stuart Santiago ▶︎ The promise of Asia Society’s Arts and Museum Summit held in November 2016 is one worth fulfilling: a...
Feb 16, 20185 minA Nation of Tensionsby Katrina Stuart Santiago ▶︎ We are at a point in nation when the burden weighs heavy on art and creativity to be relevant and current,...
Jan 20, 20186 minProtest in the Time of Post-Truthby Katrina Stuart Santiago ▶︎ This is the necessary context of Green Go Home as it happens in the Philippines at this historical...
Jan 10, 20188 minThe Politics of Rememberingby Andrea Macalino ▶︎ What makes memory so powerful? Is it the ability to whip out loss after loss? Is it some Freudian trap, from which...
Oct 20, 20174 minEating Our Feelingsby Katrina Stuart Santiago ▶︎ Kalye Kolektib’s Salu-Salo Espesyal happens alongside a larger exhibit within the same gallery and at least...
Oct 14, 20174 minBeyond Catharsis: A review of "Respeto"by Arnold Alamon ▶︎ IS THIS what we have become as a nation? A people reduced to the gutter morality of survival, haunted by the ghosts...
Oct 9, 20176 minHindi Hinihingi Ang Respetoni Teo Marasigan ▶︎ Klasiko ang “Gangsta’s Paradise,” kanta ng rapper na si Coolio na lumabas noong 1995. Pumapatungkol ito sa kahirapan,...