SPARKS: Illuminating the Filipino Self
posted on February 2nd, 2010MFPI Lecture Series “Politics: Pinoy Style”
SPARKS: Illuminating the Filipino Self
With the May 2010 Philippine Presidential elections 4 months away, The Museum Foundation of the Philippines is conducting a series of lectures on Philippine culture and politics entitled “Politics: Pinoy Style.”
The third part of this series is a talk by artist and political satirist, Jose Tence Ruiz, on February 9, Tuesday, 6-7:30pm in Silverlens Gallery. Entitled “SPARKS: Illuminating the Filipino Self,” the talk is on the formation of social realism in Philippine media and its significance on Philippine nationalism and nationhood. Ruiz will be showing ‘how the visual lineage” of social realism can find its roots pre-1975, the year social realism was formally declared. “A whole host of precedent imaginations…sought to articulate an entire world of self recognition,” Ruiz explains. “It would be the basis for a workable nationalism, a community imagined.”
Fitting a time with heightened social consciousness, this lecture series discusses the past’s definition of social realism, i.e. its interpretation of social ills, competencies, and talk, in hope of illuminating the present’s socio-political scenario.
You can download the reply form, fill it up and fax to 404-2685 / 722-9073/ 810-6912. You may also text/call 0928-5039392 (Elvie) to reserve slots.
Image: (left) Vicente Manansala, Wartime Inflation and the Housewife, 1941, (middle) Bag-ong Kusog, How the Imperialists are Provoking and Pitting Us Against Each Other, 1926, (right) Galo Ocampo, Ecce Homo