WMH Exhibits
Posted by Ginny Mata on May 24, 2008
DUMAGUETE
Silliman Library, Silliman University
Opens June 20, 2008 at 6:30 P.M.
June 20 – June 23, 200
BACOLOD
Orange Gallery, Bacolod City
Opens June 27, 2008 at 5:00 P.M.
June 27 – July 5, 20
A multimedia exhibit by WMH artists Arahmaiani, Brenda V. Fajardo, and Kai Syng Tan and guest Western Visayan artists Dulce Cuna, Kitty Tanaguchi, Esperanza Garces, Merlie Alunan, Mercedita Garcier, Sharon Dadang-Rafols, Susan Caloy and many more!
Brenda Fajardo shall show a series of ink and tempera paintings that deal with the concepts of “woman”, the babaylan (priestess), and the heroine, with the intention of making its viewers confront and question their own preconceived notions of gender, sexuality, and femininity.
Kai Syng Tan will showcase her interactive installation piece, “The Rather Terrible Slaughter of the Tour Guide”.
She explains:
“The audience goes on a ‘Detour’ of the ‘Amazing Shiny City’ with a ‘Tour Guide’ / Artist who gets killed! The City is the A-Lister Protagonist in this campy B-movie -mini- philosophical- & -poetic- & -personal-essay.
The work is a self-reflexive urban fantasy that is a gentle critique and celebration of The City (Singapore), by a die-hard Singapore woman who was born and bred there. Jarring, unapologetically urbane and contemporary, perhaps the Sita that I will seek / create will inevitably be an urban warrior-heroine…”
