https://londonbiennale.cargo.site London Biennale Tue, 19 May 2020 07:24:48 +0000 https://londonbiennale.cargo.site en https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Splash-Page Fri, 08 May 2020 17:00:40 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Splash-Page David Medalla: Founder and Director Adam Nankervis: International Co-ordinator Masks, Mirages, and the Morphic MirrorLondon Biennale 2020May 1 - December 31 (please scroll) inspired by OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK.(To Confront a Portrait.) 1OUT from behind this bending rough-cut mask,These lights and shades, this drama of the whole,This common curtain of the face contain'd in me for me, in youfor you, in each for each,(Tragedies, sorrows, laughter, tears-O heaven!The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)This glaze of God's serenest purest sky,This film of Satan's seething pit,This heart's geography's map, this limitless small continent, thissoundless sea;Out from the convolutions of this globe,This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars,This condensation of the universe, (nay here the only universe,Here the idea, all in this mystic handful wrapt;)These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time,To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate,To you whoe'er you are-a look.2A traveler of thoughts and years, of peace and war,Of youth long sped and middle age declining,(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this thesecond,Songs, ventures, speculations, presently to close,)Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,As on the road or at some crevice door by chance, or open'd win-dow,Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,Then travel travel on.Walt Whitman 1892. https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Info Fri, 08 May 2020 17:00:41 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Info Masks, Mirages, and the Morphic Mirror London Biennale 2020 In Manila in July of 2019, David Medalla and I sat and spoke through the theme of the 2020 London Biennale. Its theme, its installations, locations, global pollinations.Using the mask as theme, the mirage, the morphic mirror, we were obviously unaware of the pandemic we are now living. David pointed to a poem of Walt Whitman, from The Leaves of Grass, to be the theme,&nbsp;that would mark the proposal for this years untimely and absurd prophetic concurrence with the global pandemic, OUT FROM BEHIND THIS MASK. (To Confront a Portrait.) W. Whitman 1892.We were furthermore inspired later in the year, of the civil actions of protests of populations globally and the stories that may lay behind the mask. From tribal, to celabratory, performative, to shield, camouflouge and disguise.In light of the current situation, we are encouraging artists, to send images of their masks with a decription of their masks, the whys, the necessities, the fable, the introspection of each manifest to be&nbsp;put online as a virtual home. The artist or participant can author their work or remain anonymous if politically sensitive.These works, these odes to a political or the current health pandemic, a pre-existing ID of identity, or desire of self change, internally or an altered guise, an individuals choice to create non-identity or amplified identity, or joyous or apocalyptic manifests will be video beamed on sites world wide with accompanying texts, and if physical manifests can be sent, the masks will find home in diffrent locations of the world, within the walls of galleries, or spaces yet determined with accompanying texts.We are currently in the final stages of building a website for this project, www.londonbiennale.net and hopefully will also be able to include manifest of past biennales from 2000 on. This is now the tenth&nbsp;London Biennale. We appreciate so much the thousands of artists that&nbsp;have participated over the years.Please send your photographic submissions to anvaspace@gmail.comIf you have images texts or invitaions of past participation please&nbsp;also send to anvaspace@gmail.com&nbsp; We dedicate this London Biennale 2020 manifest to all front line workers during this current pandemic of 2020, protesters of human rights and justice, prisoners of conscience, fellow artists and the art loving public. In great admiration and gratitude of and for all. With our warmest wishes to all, the participants, and non- partcipants alike, please stay safe.David Medalla and Adam NankervisLondon Biennale 2020Berlin/ Manilalondonbiennale.netwith many thanks to Daniel Kupferberg for construction of the websitephoto- David Medalla and Adam NankervisMasks, Mirages, and the Morphic MirrorDaniel Kupferberg, avs. 2014 https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/David-Medalla Fri, 08 May 2020 19:39:28 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/David-Medalla David Medalla Philippines <img width="720" height="960" width_o="720" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bffc6344361e8651b941bf6588a2dd42346bbd707b4ec266448905ce399df33/73278413_3054640361231714_7549955651942744064_n.jpg" data-mid="70228559" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/9bffc6344361e8651b941bf6588a2dd42346bbd707b4ec266448905ce399df33/73278413_3054640361231714_7549955651942744064_n.jpg" /> David Medalla London Biennale 2020 Masks, Mirages and the Morphic Mirror founder and director London Biennale 2000-2020 David Medalla (b. 1942) is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance. He lives and works in London and Berlin.Born in Manila, Medalla moved at the age of 14 to New York where he was admitted as a special student at Columbia University on the recommendation of American poet Mark van Doren. There, he studied ancient Greek drama with Moses Hadas, modern drama with Eric Bentley, literature with Lionel Trilling, philosophy with John Randall and attended the poetry workshops of Léonie Adams. In New York, David met the american actor James Dean and the filipino poet José Garcia Villa who encouraged Medalla’s early interest in painting. In the late 1950s he returned to Manila and met the poet Jaime Gil de Biedma and the painter Fernando Zóbel who became the earliest patrons of his art.In the early 1960s he moved to the United Kingdom and co-founded the Signals Gallery in London in 1964, which presented international kinetic art. He was editor of the Signals news bulletin from 1964 to 1966. In 1967 he initiated the Exploding Galaxy, an international confluence of multi-media artists, significant in counterculture circles, particularly the UFO Club and Arts Lab. From 1974 to 1977 he was chairman of Artists for Democracy and director of the Fitzrovia Cultural Centre, both in London. In 1994 he founded the Mondrian Fan Club in New York with Adam Nankervis, and in 2000 the London Biennale, the idea for which occured to him while he was on a boat en route to Robben Island, off Cape Town, South Africa, during the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale in 1998.Medalla’s work was the subject of the solo exhibition Anywhere in the World, curated by Guy Brett, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 2005. His work was included in the Harald Szeemann–curated exhibitions Weiss auf Weiss (1966) and Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969) at the Bern Kunsthalle, and in DOCUMENTA 5, Kassel (1972).Important group exhibitions featuring the artist’s work include How Art Became Active: 1960 to Now at Tate Modern (2016); Other Primary Structures at The Jewish Museum, New York (2014); Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789-2013, Tate Liverpool (2013–14); Thresholds, TRAFO, Szczecin (2013); When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013, Fondazione Prada, Venice (2013); Une exposition parlée, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2013); Migrations, Tate Britain, London (2012); À la vie délibérée, Une histoire de la performance sur la Côte d’Azur de 1951 à 2011, Villa Arson, Nice, France (2012); Art at the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London (2004); Happiness–A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2003); Pulse: Art, Healing and Transformation at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2003); Century City, Tate Modern, London (2001); Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic at the Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the Hayward Gallery, London (2000); Century City at the Tate Modern, London (2001); Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2000) and the Museu do Chiado, Lisbon (2001); Micropolitiques at Le Magasin, Grenoble (2000); Force Fields at the Hayward Gallery, London (2000); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and MAK, Vienna (1998), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1999); Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966–1996 at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1997); Live/Life at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1996) and the Centro Cultural do Belem, Lisbon (1997); L’Informe at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1996); FluxAttitudes at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); and The Other Story, curated by Rasheed Araeen at the Hayward Gallery, London (1989).The artist participated in the 8th Asian Pacific Triennale, Brisbane (2015); the 9th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2013); the 16th Sydney Biennial, Sydney (2008); Performa 07, New York (2007); and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale , with Adam Nankervis, the Mondrian Fan Club(1998). The 57th Venice Biennale (2017), solo Arsenale, Mondrian Fan Club with Adam Nankervis Giardini.Medalla has lectured at many international institutions and universities including the Sorbonne, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of New York, Silliman University and the University of the Philippines, the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the New York Public Library, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury, Warwick and Southampton in England, and the Slade School of Fine Art, London.Medalla has won awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation of America. In 2016, he was shortlisted for the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. <img width="1340" height="1786" width_o="1340" height_o="1786" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06608128a726dd700277d199939f7111311638d84d3c7c5852eb39b691004432/IMG_0519_1340_c.jpg" data-mid="71798572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06608128a726dd700277d199939f7111311638d84d3c7c5852eb39b691004432/IMG_0519_1340_c.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="960" width_o="960" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa966c44a8fd3bc7653efb7d3950703be8f59a41efd8fa5a36e59bd40a5284c7/93383935_3473471066015306_2040392130282651648_o.jpg" data-mid="71571452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/fa966c44a8fd3bc7653efb7d3950703be8f59a41efd8fa5a36e59bd40a5284c7/93383935_3473471066015306_2040392130282651648_o.jpg" /> <img width="3584" height="2018" width_o="3584" height_o="2018" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed35c7df38eea83833eb45771b3fe8b4664c8ed5c8947ac18ba587f892ca73f0/Screenshot-2020-04-18-at-14.13.28.png" data-mid="71571303" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed35c7df38eea83833eb45771b3fe8b4664c8ed5c8947ac18ba587f892ca73f0/Screenshot-2020-04-18-at-14.13.28.png" /> anothervacantspace.com eros︎ https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Daniel-Kupferberg-Visor-I-II-III Fri, 08 May 2020 21:25:18 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Daniel-Kupferberg-Visor-I-II-III Daniel Kupferberghomo express <img width="1067" height="600" width_o="1067" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34ced88e43ce5cd7db2bad63e37a5fee5e232ce2667f3bccbd95a12bd19502b8/visir-2009.jpg" data-mid="70238656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34ced88e43ce5cd7db2bad63e37a5fee5e232ce2667f3bccbd95a12bd19502b8/visir-2009.jpg" /> Daniel Kupferberg Visir I / II / IIIc-print on paper, 2009 LB public relations &amp; social media -ask bask burn fast flip flap bird back beak break hide slide turn tongue stick slick twist wrist mouth risk teen mean true type hype ripe no mike head hunt barn blunt hay say nay day gay grow old fold in to pack stack whack snack skip hack done deal real feel oh dear more fear yes but not hot well then tough luck stop when throat stuck big chunk mean task very heavy rip off your m- danielkupferberg.dk eros︎ https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Adam-Nankervis-Morphic-Mirror Fri, 08 May 2020 19:58:49 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Adam-Nankervis-Morphic-Mirror Adam Nankervis <img width="3024" height="3024" width_o="3024" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06d0ca636f1abb1e055b0a405c2f547076fc907bfb39d7c55fe036f46719f11d/morphic.mirror.jpg" data-mid="79841307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06d0ca636f1abb1e055b0a405c2f547076fc907bfb39d7c55fe036f46719f11d/morphic.mirror.jpg" /> Adam NankervisMorphic Mirror2020 international co-ordinator Morphic MirrorAdam Nankervisanother vacant space.found another vacant spaceMarch 1 1992 – Present 2020Adam Nankervisdedicated toDavid Medalla(my soul mate, my husband, my best friend)Piet Mondian.Lon Chaney. Luciano Fontana.Erich von Stroheim. Asger Jörn.Hart Crane. Marriane Moore.Mei Lan Fan.brion gysin.dsh.wilfred owen.rilke.cavafi.walt whitman.arthur rimbaud.guy brettSeptemeber 30 2020(due to corvid 19 by appointment only)Adam Nankervisfound another vacant spaceMarch 1 1992 – PresentAdam NankervisBorn: Melbourne, Australia.Married: David Medalla Manila 2017Lives: U.K./ Berlin/ Syracause/ Rome/ NYC/ Sydney/ London/ Aarhûs / Lightning Ridge Australia/ Manila/ Hobart/ Brisbane/ AuklandDirector, Museum MAN, Berlin 1997-ongoingInternational Coordinator, London Biennale 2000-2020Founder, Changing ChannelsLondon Biennale Pollinations, 2003 - Exhibitions (selected)2020Morphic MirrorAdam Nankervisanother vacant space.Wedding BerlinDeutschlandGermany2019An Opera For Animals#skybluecurator Cosmin CostinasPara-siteShanghai MuseumAn Opera For Animals#skybluecurator Cosmin Costinas2017Should The World Break In IIAutogestion: DIYAdam NankervisMuseum ManJoan Miro FoundationBarcelona SpainMondrian Fan ClubDavid Medalla + Adam NankervisVenice Biennale 57Viva Arte VIVA!curator. Christine MarcelGiardiniVenice BiennaleItaly2015The Letter PMondrian Fan ClubDavid Medalla + Adam NankervisDaniel KupferbergPeggy GuggenheimVenice Italysattelite project of The Phillipine Pavillioncurator: Patrick Flores2013 Black Stars On A White SkyA Hommage to MallarmèArtist In ResidencyChateu de SacyHermine Demorian2011Adam Nankervisre-foundanother vacant space.Berlin Germanyongoing2010The Secret History of the Mondrian Fan Club IIIDavid Medalla + Adam NankervisBARÓ GALERIASep 18th – Nov 20th 2010São Paulo, Rua Barra Funda, 216 Santa CeciliaBrazil2010 IZOLATSYIADonetsk UkraineLuba Mikhailova2009A spires EmbersLuba Mikhailova+Ludmila Bereznitska Arsenal, Kiev, Miystskiy Arsenal (collection)Should the World Break InLudmila Bereznitska+Partner Gallery, KievReliquaries of Empires DustAdam NankervisMuseum MANLudmila Bereznitska+Partner, BerlinLudmilla Bereznitska GalleryBerlin Germany2008Museum MANAdam NankervisShould The World Break InLudmilla Bereznitska GalleryKievBouquets For A Dead End Street, Royal Academy London event horizon - curator temporary contemporaryIndifference (is bliss)Berlin - curated by Johannes BussMuseum MANValparaiso, ChileReliquaries Of Empires DustAdam NankervisMuseum MANLudmilla Berezsnitska Gallery BerlinBerlinGermany2007Adam NankervisMuseum MANSantiago de ChileMetropolitana GalerrieMuseum MAN ValparaisoHistory of DisappearanceFranklin Furnace Archives, Museum MAN, Chile Centro Culturelle, Palicio de La Moneda, Metropolitana Gallerie, Santiago, ChileMuseum MANInneROUTErAdam Nankervis (curator/ artsist)3 exhibitions over time. ongoingYokahama Boogie Woogie ZaimKyoto, Japan - curator Koan Baysa2006 BlurprintsAdam Nankervis (curator/ artsist)Museum MAN’s Another Vacant Space, Liverpool BiennialBouquets For A Dead End StreetDeformes-First Latin American Performance, Biennale, ChileFlagenationsconcept for the inaugural opening of The London Biennale2006 - Adam NankervisLiverpool Biennal IndependentsA global manifestation with 160 artists worldwide participating in cities from New Delhi, Sydney, NYC, Liverpool, London, Naples, TokyoBlueprintsCurator / Assemblage, Berliner Kunstsalon, BerlinAnywhere in the WorldDavid Medalla’s London Cosmic Wrestling Match - Marcel Duchamp vs Joseph Beuys: performance and installation, Institute Of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London2004 Museum MANLiverpool Biennial 2004 Fireworks Tablet Gallery, Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London - Curator Mark Wilsher2001 Star MapsLos Angeles Biennale - Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica - Curated Koan Baysa1997Museum MANfoundedKastanienallee 72D- 13349Berlin GermanyDeutsclandPansy Takes A Trip: When Summer Has Almost GoneSdB Rotterdam - Curator Sico CarlierCosmic Carco Cult DAADAtelier Dahlem, Berlin - Curator David Medalla1995Life/Live collaboration with David MedallaThe Bird Man of WaikikiCentro Culturelle De Belem, Portugal Musée D’Art&nbsp;Moderne de la ville, Paris - Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist1996LIFE/ LIVEcurator: Hans Ulrich ObristMusee Art de Modern Paris FranceBird Man of Waikikiphoto Sergio Goescurated by Koan Jeff Baysaartist in residence- David Medalla and Adam NankervisUniversity of Oahu Hawaii Hawaii1992Adam Nankervisfoundanother vacant space.Mercer StreetSoHo NYC NY.1991Portraits of AscencionsBillboard Danceteria, NYCDavid MedallaAndrew Cooper ReynerRuby Lyn ReynerPatsy CraigIzhar PatkinJames MooresImpostures, Delusions and Fanatic Missionsanother Vacant Space, Mercer St., NYCfounded by Adam Nankervis1991Mondrian Fan Clubfounded by David Medalla and Adam NankervisChelsea Hotel Rm. 603204 W 23rd St, New York, NY 100111989The Lightning BrothersPolaroids and Hand-Made Jewellery from the elements of The Australian Desert 1988/ 99Remo, Sydney, Australia - Adam Nankervis is an artist and curator who has infused social, conceptual and experimental practice in his lived in nomadic museum, museum MAN, and his ongoing project 'another vacant space.'. His immersion into the experimentation of social sculptural forms and aesthetic collisions are a trademark of his art.His ongoing project 'another vacant space.', has re-manifested in Berlin Wedding 2011, since being founded in an abandoned shoe shop on Mercer Street NYC in 1992. The project focuses on the re-emergence of the hidden in subject, content and theory, the ephemeral, exploring the art of creative destruction and reconstruction inviting contemporary artists and the historical.His curatorial practice is infused within his own projects, and singularly, Johannesburg Biennale 1997,curated by Okwui Enwezor and Gerardo Meesquera, LIFE/LIVE Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Los Angeles Biennale 2001, curated by Koan Baysa, Museum MAN/ Blurprint of The Senses Liverpool Biennale, 2004/ 2006, aFoundation and Arts Council England. Centro Cultural Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago, Chile, curator, Isabel Garcia. A Spires Embers, Arsenal Kiev 2009,’ iIsolation’, Izolyatsia Donetsk, Luba Mikhailova, Ukraine 2010, Dumbo Arts Center, NYC November 2012, Peggy Guggenheim Collection 2015, Foundacion Joan Miro 2017, Venice Biennale 57, 2017.Nankervis, in collaboration with David Medalla, formed The Mondrian Fan Club, &amp; is the International Coordinator of the London Biennale 2000–2014 which was founded as a free-form artist initiative.Adam Nankervis is represented in the collection of Arts Council England, aFoundation, James Moores Collection, Leo Keulbs Luba Mikhailova Collection, Ludmilla Bereznitzka Collection, QAGOMA Queensland, Australia and private collections worldwide. another vacant space. eros ︎ https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Marta-Leite-Frau-Nestkopf Fri, 08 May 2020 17:00:42 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Marta-Leite-Frau-Nestkopf Marta LeitePortugal /&nbsp;Berlin, Germany <img width="1181" height="1747" width_o="1181" height_o="1747" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3718992fd2b295f87ae9439a99eb6d3af0ca48c029ec6589c0cf16fa521cca9e/2010_Frau-Nestkopf_1.jpg" data-mid="70222059" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3718992fd2b295f87ae9439a99eb6d3af0ca48c029ec6589c0cf16fa521cca9e/2010_Frau-Nestkopf_1.jpg" /> Marta LeiteFrau Nestkopfwood, 2010 Frau Nestkopf is a lady dressed in black using a mask made of small pieces of wood, similar to a nest.Frau Nestkopf is someone that feels trapped and searches the contact with pigeons and seagulls.These animals easy adapt to any climacteric condition, represent to this woman a symbol ofresistance and adaptability, states that she is unable to reach. In her loneliness, she is secure but notfree. Her confrontation with these birds show us the dichotomy between choking/freedom,detention/shelter. I used this mask in my video Frau Nestkopf, done 10 years ago. Now during thepandemic period, I feel that the motivations I had back then still make sense. <img width="992" height="773" width_o="992" height_o="773" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01c49ce8f402674ad92dbeaaad34d17dc86b107e310e68c862d3e18f251fcb5b/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-10.32.10.png" data-mid="73109727" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/992/i/01c49ce8f402674ad92dbeaaad34d17dc86b107e310e68c862d3e18f251fcb5b/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-10.32.10.png" /> martaleite.jimdofree.com &nbsp; eros︎ https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Karenne-Ann-Death-Mask-of-a-Wounded-Woman Fri, 08 May 2020 18:38:43 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Karenne-Ann-Death-Mask-of-a-Wounded-Woman Karenne AnnAustralia <img width="720" height="960" width_o="720" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30ad507345300d989706e7d3c9b28b5c6712b5b300dd75ec84d9c81167debb77/94009653_1121252948220627_2997644481185972224_o.jpg" data-mid="70222229" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/30ad507345300d989706e7d3c9b28b5c6712b5b300dd75ec84d9c81167debb77/94009653_1121252948220627_2997644481185972224_o.jpg" /> Karenne Ann Death Mask of a Broken Woman 2017 karenneann.com eros︎ https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Reynolds Fri, 08 May 2020 18:43:38 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Reynolds Reynolds Baltimore/NYC, USA <img width="721" height="960" width_o="721" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d4c11b83a122121b43a49151618c18372c19efc2d7c0a582b1b978f9b9301a1/96711724_3143309759048401_3001219895431004160_o.jpg" data-mid="70222647" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/721/i/3d4c11b83a122121b43a49151618c18372c19efc2d7c0a582b1b978f9b9301a1/96711724_3143309759048401_3001219895431004160_o.jpg" /> Reynolds2020 London Biennale 2020 our morphing society is reflected in our mirrors as our masks protect us. Here is New York there is an upsurge of protests against those who think their youth and wealth confers immunity. Our politics reflect the paucity of our cultural imagination, but we can use art to morph our way to a brighter future.I had so much fun doing this, as this mask was made in Brazil by Puki Paraders of the past in my exhibit Imagina A Vagina. The mask needed reinforcing and the Brooklyn Museum wanted it's educators to try paper mache. First I did that, then repainted it and covered it with protective gloss. Then I must have sewed on thirty roses around the border and glued glitter (uteruses palm trees pineapples and breasts) onto the cape for added flash; attached ribbons and sequins and last the pom pomsI plan to do this on a sunny day one more time to nail the annoying maskless joggers and offer them up free fabric squares to make their own mask, or safely sit on another bench to add their own additions to my cape as in David Medalla Stitch in Time . But still I liked the rain: as it added to the reflections and morphed in the mirrors. <img width="960" height="819" width_o="960" height_o="819" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dcf60c3707bb61382aafabc7ad8a94b88bb0dfeaed829ce12d4f035fce18a57/95835717_3521293404566405_1601311980025544704_n.jpg" data-mid="70225738" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/0dcf60c3707bb61382aafabc7ad8a94b88bb0dfeaed829ce12d4f035fce18a57/95835717_3521293404566405_1601311980025544704_n.jpg" /><img width="960" height="711" width_o="960" height_o="711" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eccf67a2fa73f96bcfd824a9f64d2e5b353aebf9b795cf89d7f7685603f10cd7/95847076_3521293407899738_693119734874374144_n.jpg" data-mid="70225739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/eccf67a2fa73f96bcfd824a9f64d2e5b353aebf9b795cf89d7f7685603f10cd7/95847076_3521293407899738_693119734874374144_n.jpg" />reynoldsnart.com eros︎ https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Jason-Dy-SJ-Be-a-Tree-Anotong Mon, 18 May 2020 16:54:55 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Jason-Dy-SJ-Be-a-Tree-Anotong Jason Dy, SJManila, Philippines <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc40497d83ebdfb913c79275dc6ada5d5d642db57911c0211817899bdce6335f/BeATreeAnotong2020.jpg" data-mid="71489260" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc40497d83ebdfb913c79275dc6ada5d5d642db57911c0211817899bdce6335f/BeATreeAnotong2020.jpg" /> Jason Dy, SJBe a Tree Anotongperformance, 2020 During these days, I'm doing a performance of holding branches of trees and covering my face. It's entitled "I am Tree." It's an attempt to be closer to nature. This is informed by the German poet Hermann Hesse and his ideas of trees as sanctuaries. This is perhaps a personal atonement or at-one-ment with nature. This performance is documented via photographs and posted online via FB page as a profile picture.I'm interested to propose this performance because of your curatorial brief to engage the pandemic with a kind of masks that does not only cover the exterior but uncover the interior. Jason Dy, SJ (b. 1977, Philippines) Dy is a Jesuit priest and Filipino contemporary artist who is currently lecturing at the Fine Arts Department of the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City. He is a self-taught artist who developed his artistic interests by attending art workshops, art classes, art conferences and art exhibitions as well as integrating art into his studies in theology and his pastoral ministry. In 2013, after being a parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Parish, Cebu City and holding his solo exhibition Testimony of What Remains at the Fernando Amorsolo Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, he pursued his graduate studies in the arts, namely, MA by Creative Practice and MA in Art History and Curating at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Through his graduate studies, he is able to articulate his current creative practice that investigates into “the community and studio-based responses to changing religious and cultural circumstances, locations and events” (LHU). Some of his important art projects include In Loving Memory, a participatory art ritual of remembering the dead that started during the All Souls’ Day at the Sacred Heart Parish, Cebu City, PH in 2009 and was included in the contemporary Christian art exhibition Arte + Fe curated by Maria Tarruella at the Pons Fundacion, Madrid, Spain (2011); Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, a graduate thesis exhibition at the Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK that essayed on death, mourning, and remembrance in loving memory of his father (2014); Kanlungan ng Awa (Sanctuary of Mercy), an immersive installation of an altar of repose with four interrelated components of a makeshift chapel from its altar, ceiling, carpet flooring, to its stations of the cross in partnership with the Kristong Hari Parish, Commonwealth, PH in 2016 and was part of a two-man show New Order curated by Ricky Francisco at the Lopez Museum, PH (2017); Barter, an art project that reacted to the 2016 Kidapawan Protest seeking rice subsidy from the government rather than the violent treatment of farmers as well as appropriating the traditional mode of exchange through the barter system to reflect on the various exchanges that is happening in Lucban, Quezon, PH in collaboration with Barangay Piis, Lucban at the Project Space Pilipinas (2016); and Procesion de los Camareros in response of Japanese invasion in 8 December 1941 on the day of an important Marian procession in Intramuros during the Spanish colonial period was a commissioned art project of the first Manila Biennale Open City curated by Ringo Bunoan with the participation of the fifteen pedicab drivers from Barangay 655, Intramuros, Manila, PH (2017-2018). <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76c852d29bf7813b6a0dbcdea6f3803139f3a902281949448dd6776f38e15a9e/BeATreeBamboo2020.jpg" data-mid="71489261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76c852d29bf7813b6a0dbcdea6f3803139f3a902281949448dd6776f38e15a9e/BeATreeBamboo2020.jpg" /> Be a Tree Bamboo (2020)<img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/655ae90ab712beb787c1dc08908757818b57af249bd608e3ea28f7f1bf4758ba/BeATreeBanaba2020.jpg" data-mid="71489262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/655ae90ab712beb787c1dc08908757818b57af249bd608e3ea28f7f1bf4758ba/BeATreeBanaba2020.jpg" />Be a Tree Banaba (2020) <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e717832ee8af3548da282e2eb85fe49e99971f89b55a10a9b60f39c16c89f45/BeATreeFlameTreeb2020.jpg" data-mid="71489263" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e717832ee8af3548da282e2eb85fe49e99971f89b55a10a9b60f39c16c89f45/BeATreeFlameTreeb2020.jpg" /> Be a Tree Flame Tree (2020) <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69ec8f8845742e679a2085760703328ab36cab759318c6aeb3e23b1d2b85ba45/BeATreeGoldenShowers2020.jpg" data-mid="71489264" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69ec8f8845742e679a2085760703328ab36cab759318c6aeb3e23b1d2b85ba45/BeATreeGoldenShowers2020.jpg" /> Be a Tree Golden Showers (2020) <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81439c44b5847cfea2e97e7f3c462bef3e935ed4d4a897129b0e341253d98eb0/BeATreeBanana2020.jpg" data-mid="73812029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81439c44b5847cfea2e97e7f3c462bef3e935ed4d4a897129b0e341253d98eb0/BeATreeBanana2020.jpg" /> Be a Tree Banana (2020) <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2f1b0544c26e6e498fe8841fdbdfb7d742630cadcbc0fdc13abfd781ffe3eee/BeATreeKalachuchi2020.jpg" data-mid="73812224" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2f1b0544c26e6e498fe8841fdbdfb7d742630cadcbc0fdc13abfd781ffe3eee/BeATreeKalachuchi2020.jpg" /> Be a Tree Kalachuchi (2020) <img width="967" height="725" width_o="967" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b8fd8c06073889aa2003773fe7e9d9f21224b7b33d964d4e747453a55f15d64/BeATreeOctopus2020.jpg" data-mid="73813319" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/967/i/7b8fd8c06073889aa2003773fe7e9d9f21224b7b33d964d4e747453a55f15d64/BeATreeOctopus2020.jpg" /> Be a Tree Octopus (2020) projectspacepilipinas.blogspot.com eros︎ https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Francesca-Cho-PEACE-WAR-from-leaves-of-grass-petals Tue, 19 May 2020 07:24:48 +0000 London Biennale https://londonbiennale.cargo.site/Francesca-Cho-PEACE-WAR-from-leaves-of-grass-petals Francesca ChoSouth Korea / UK / France <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c772b50f988b1ed8927d12fc7c4ef66bff798f45d657efc4eb804062bc1cfea/20200516_180927.jpg" data-mid="71562365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c772b50f988b1ed8927d12fc7c4ef66bff798f45d657efc4eb804062bc1cfea/20200516_180927.jpg" /> Francesca ChoPEACE &amp; WAR/ from leaves of grass/petals/ Bank Notes IIpoppy mask, impromptu, 2020 ‘Never-ending titles’ How much are you worth? Combien valez-vous? 당신의 존엄성은 얼마입니까? Sacrificed for WHAT? … WHY? Sacrifié pour quoi? … pourquoi? 무엇때문에&nbsp; 희생되셨나요? What do you prefer money, flowers or maybe stars? Préférez vous l’argent, les fleurs ou peut être les étoiles? 무엇을 선택하실래요 돈, 꽃, 스타 ? How famous are you? Etes-vous célèbre? 당신은 얼마나 유명한가요? … courtesy of 291 gallery <img width="2210" height="2725" width_o="2210" height_o="2725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15a3f57b0b4c658d8df11be6f7c49de0e43428c54d31d00483a6455d1a2fdae3/Bank-Notes-II.jpg" data-mid="83120194" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15a3f57b0b4c658d8df11be6f7c49de0e43428c54d31d00483a6455d1a2fdae3/Bank-Notes-II.jpg" /> Bank Notes II <img width="3024" height="3671" width_o="3024" height_o="3671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24a3bf0d4ccaf5494b333875eafc4c9573977e5f4b56591e2fcf284bd8a0f70b/20200516_1827572.jpg" data-mid="71558224" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24a3bf0d4ccaf5494b333875eafc4c9573977e5f4b56591e2fcf284bd8a0f70b/20200516_1827572.jpg" />francescacho.com @chofrancesca (instagram) eros︎