THE VIVA EX-CON BACKGROUND
For the last twenty years and now the longest running visual arts exhibit-conference in the country, the Visayan Islands Visual Artists (VIVA) bi-annual meet brings together professional and non-professional visual artists from all over the Visayas as a showcase of Visayan visual art conducted in the capacity of a formal continuing education program. The conference also addresses the strengthening of linkages within the islands, discuss directions and strategies for the whole Visayas arts scene, tackle issues confronting visual artists in the region and discuss trends on going global and venturing to broader realms in art. VIVA Conferences also features artistic workshops on various art-making techniques in relation to various materials and processes as a means of expanding individual artist’s skills and technical know-how.
VIVA Exhibit-Conference (Ex-Con) is held every two years at a venue which rotates among all the regional Visayan centers which have reached or have been reached by the VIVA Executive Committee. The leadership of the VIVAA (the association) also rotates among its members. The first VIVA Ex-Con was held in Mambucal, Bacolod City in 1990 and has since been held in Bacolod City (1992), Dumaguete City (1994), Iloilo City (1996), Cebu City (1998), Tacloban City, Leyte (2000), Tagbilaran City, Bohol (2002), Bacolod City (2004), and Calbayog City, Samar (2006).
THE THEME
“USWAG-LAMBIGIT” is the theme of the tenth edition of the VIVA Exhibit-Conference in Cebu. It is composed of two Visayan words that literally mean ‘move forward’ and ‘collaborate’.
This gathering of creative minds from the entire Visayas addresses the need for art to move in new and exciting directions as its artists must also work together and share different fields of expertise to become deeply rooted in Visayan culture in an already globally competitive market. This conference will expose the delegates to the essentials on how to be a professional artist through scientific methods of cataloging and preventive conservation and likewise adhere to international standards of handling, promoting, and exhibiting art. Art-making in the 21st century has also seen new media and technology incorporated into art forms. The workshop component of this conference will impart to the delegates complex methods and innovative techniques in printmaking, mixed-media/ found object sculpture, and advanced digital photography among others.
THE EXHIBITIONS CONCEPT
The exhibit component of VIVA-10 in Cebu will be unlike any traditional exhibitions conducted in previous conferences. The exhibition will be divided into two categories, the VIVA participants’ curated exhibit and the VIVA’s Garbo Sa Bisaya (Pride of the Visayas) tribute exhibit. A Visayan curator, Dr. Reuben Ramas Cañete, PhD. from the Art Studies Department of the College of Arts and Letters in U.P. Diliman will oversee the artists’ works from conceptualization to mounting.
As an innovation to the VIVA Ex-Con, the participant’s exhibition will present carefully planned works done in collaboration at a predetermined site. The artists or groups will be given a specific area to work with and can even utilize the entire floor and wall area through paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media installations. The participant’s exhibition will be formally opened on the first day of the conference proper at the Trade Hall of SM City Cebu.
Also a first in VIVA history, an exhibition in recognition of Visayan artists who have already secured their prestige in the national and international art scene will be presented as a form of tribute to these trailblazing Visayan artists: Charlie Co (Neg. Occ.), Nunelucio Alvarado (Neg. Occ.), Napoleon Abueva (Bohol), Raul Isidro (Samar), Nelfa Querubin (Iloilo), Manuel Rodriguez Sr. (Cebu), Raul Lebajo (Leyte) and Romulo Galicano (Cebu). The “Garbo sa Bisaya” exhibition will serve as the VIVA finale at the Bluewater gallery of Maribago Bluewater Beach resort in Mactan, Cebu.
THE CONFERENCE PROPER
The conference component will accommodate a projected 200 visual artists from all over the Visayas from November 27 to 29, 2008. VIVA Ex-Con 10 will begin the 3-day conference with a series of talks on the state of the visual arts from the different Visayas Islands through their Island Coordinator. A talk by the VIVA-10 Exhibitions Curator will lead to the opening of the VIVA participants’ exhibit in the evening.
The second day of the conference will take up such topics as art-proposal making, cataloguing art, preventive conservation, curatorial concept and practice in the morning session. The afternoon session will enjoin the participants in collaborative art-making in a public space (the Fuente Osmeña rotunda) in the heart of the city. Here the artists will create installation art using indigenous Visayan materials with “Sugbu Sa Akong Panumduman” (Cebu in My Mind) as the underlying theme.
The third day of the conference will introduce the participants to new techniques in found-object sculpture or “scrapology”, advanced printmaking using dry-point etching and collograph, and digital photography. An assessment of the whole VIVA conference followed by the bidding and voting of the next VIVA host will end the conference proper. In the evening, the “Garbo sa Bisaya” (Pride of the Visayas) exhibition will open where a fellowship dinner will follow.
THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Day 1
November 27, 2008
Venue: SM City Cebu Conference Hall A&B
Morning Session:
Registration 10am-12nn
12nn-1pm Lunch at Venue
Afternoon Session:
Venue: SM City Cebu Conference Hall A&B
1pm-2pm Island Reports (Island Coordinators)
2pm-3pm Open Forum
3-4pm Curators Overview
4pm-430pm Panel of Reactors
Evening Session:
Venue: SM Trade Hall
5pm Opening of VIVA-10 Curated Exhibition
530pm Dinner at Venue
730pm-8pm Travel to Hotel
Day 2
November 28, 2008
6am-8am Breakfast at Hotel
8am-9am Travel to Venue
Morning Session:
9am-12nn Talks on Art Conservation and Management by Eric Zerrudo
Venue #1: UP Cebu Conference Hall
9am-12nn Talks on Preparing Exhibits and Exploring Art Issues, A Curator’s Perspective for Artists by Dr. Patrick Flores
Venue #2: University of San Carlos AV Room
Lunch at Venue
Afternoon Session:
1pm-2pm Travel to Venue
Venue: Fuente Osmeña Rotunda, Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City
2pm-5pm Art in the Rotunda (Collaborative Art Making) with the theme “Sugbu sa Akong Panumduman” (Cebu in My Mind)
5pm Dinner at Venue
Day 3
November 29, 2008
6am-730am Breakfast at Hotel
730am-830-am Travel to Venue: Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort, Mactan, Cebu
Morning Session:
9am-12nn Workshops at the Maribago Conference Rooms:
Printmaking Workshop: Collograph and Dry Point Etching
Digital Photography Workshop
Found Object Sculpture: “Scrapology”
12nn -1pm Buffet Lunch at Venue
Afternoon Session:
130pm-2pm Assessment of the Exhibit-Conference
2pm-3pm Bidding for Next Host
3pm-330pm Awarding of Certificates
3pm-500pm Free-Time
Evening Session:
5pm Opening of “Garbo Sa Bisaya” Exhibit
6pm Fellowship Dinner
7pm Onwards – VIVA Solidarity Night
For the last twenty years and now the longest running visual arts exhibit-conference in the country, the Visayan Islands Visual Artists (VIVA) bi-annual meet brings together professional and non-professional visual artists from all over the Visayas as a showcase of Visayan visual art conducted in the capacity of a formal continuing education program. The conference also addresses the strengthening of linkages within the islands, discuss directions and strategies for the whole Visayas arts scene, tackle issues confronting visual artists in the region and discuss trends on going global and venturing to broader realms in art. VIVA Conferences also features artistic workshops on various art-making techniques in relation to various materials and processes as a means of expanding individual artist’s skills and technical know-how.
VIVA Exhibit-Conference (Ex-Con) is held every two years at a venue which rotates among all the regional Visayan centers which have reached or have been reached by the VIVA Executive Committee. The leadership of the VIVAA (the association) also rotates among its members. The first VIVA Ex-Con was held in Mambucal, Bacolod City in 1990 and has since been held in Bacolod City (1992), Dumaguete City (1994), Iloilo City (1996), Cebu City (1998), Tacloban City, Leyte (2000), Tagbilaran City, Bohol (2002), Bacolod City (2004), and Calbayog City, Samar (2006).
THE THEME
“USWAG-LAMBIGIT” is the theme of the tenth edition of the VIVA Exhibit-Conference in Cebu. It is composed of two Visayan words that literally mean ‘move forward’ and ‘collaborate’.
This gathering of creative minds from the entire Visayas addresses the need for art to move in new and exciting directions as its artists must also work together and share different fields of expertise to become deeply rooted in Visayan culture in an already globally competitive market. This conference will expose the delegates to the essentials on how to be a professional artist through scientific methods of cataloging and preventive conservation and likewise adhere to international standards of handling, promoting, and exhibiting art. Art-making in the 21st century has also seen new media and technology incorporated into art forms. The workshop component of this conference will impart to the delegates complex methods and innovative techniques in printmaking, mixed-media/ found object sculpture, and advanced digital photography among others.
THE EXHIBITIONS CONCEPT
The exhibit component of VIVA-10 in Cebu will be unlike any traditional exhibitions conducted in previous conferences. The exhibition will be divided into two categories, the VIVA participants’ curated exhibit and the VIVA’s Garbo Sa Bisaya (Pride of the Visayas) tribute exhibit. A Visayan curator, Dr. Reuben Ramas Cañete, PhD. from the Art Studies Department of the College of Arts and Letters in U.P. Diliman will oversee the artists’ works from conceptualization to mounting.
As an innovation to the VIVA Ex-Con, the participant’s exhibition will present carefully planned works done in collaboration at a predetermined site. The artists or groups will be given a specific area to work with and can even utilize the entire floor and wall area through paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media installations. The participant’s exhibition will be formally opened on the first day of the conference proper at the Trade Hall of SM City Cebu.
Also a first in VIVA history, an exhibition in recognition of Visayan artists who have already secured their prestige in the national and international art scene will be presented as a form of tribute to these trailblazing Visayan artists: Charlie Co (Neg. Occ.), Nunelucio Alvarado (Neg. Occ.), Napoleon Abueva (Bohol), Raul Isidro (Samar), Nelfa Querubin (Iloilo), Manuel Rodriguez Sr. (Cebu), Raul Lebajo (Leyte) and Romulo Galicano (Cebu). The “Garbo sa Bisaya” exhibition will serve as the VIVA finale at the Bluewater gallery of Maribago Bluewater Beach resort in Mactan, Cebu.
THE CONFERENCE PROPER
The conference component will accommodate a projected 200 visual artists from all over the Visayas from November 27 to 29, 2008. VIVA Ex-Con 10 will begin the 3-day conference with a series of talks on the state of the visual arts from the different Visayas Islands through their Island Coordinator. A talk by the VIVA-10 Exhibitions Curator will lead to the opening of the VIVA participants’ exhibit in the evening.
The second day of the conference will take up such topics as art-proposal making, cataloguing art, preventive conservation, curatorial concept and practice in the morning session. The afternoon session will enjoin the participants in collaborative art-making in a public space (the Fuente Osmeña rotunda) in the heart of the city. Here the artists will create installation art using indigenous Visayan materials with “Sugbu Sa Akong Panumduman” (Cebu in My Mind) as the underlying theme.
The third day of the conference will introduce the participants to new techniques in found-object sculpture or “scrapology”, advanced printmaking using dry-point etching and collograph, and digital photography. An assessment of the whole VIVA conference followed by the bidding and voting of the next VIVA host will end the conference proper. In the evening, the “Garbo sa Bisaya” (Pride of the Visayas) exhibition will open where a fellowship dinner will follow.
THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Day 1
November 27, 2008
Venue: SM City Cebu Conference Hall A&B
Morning Session:
Registration 10am-12nn
12nn-1pm Lunch at Venue
Afternoon Session:
Venue: SM City Cebu Conference Hall A&B
1pm-2pm Island Reports (Island Coordinators)
2pm-3pm Open Forum
3-4pm Curators Overview
4pm-430pm Panel of Reactors
Evening Session:
Venue: SM Trade Hall
5pm Opening of VIVA-10 Curated Exhibition
530pm Dinner at Venue
730pm-8pm Travel to Hotel
Day 2
November 28, 2008
6am-8am Breakfast at Hotel
8am-9am Travel to Venue
Morning Session:
9am-12nn Talks on Art Conservation and Management by Eric Zerrudo
Venue #1: UP Cebu Conference Hall
9am-12nn Talks on Preparing Exhibits and Exploring Art Issues, A Curator’s Perspective for Artists by Dr. Patrick Flores
Venue #2: University of San Carlos AV Room
Lunch at Venue
Afternoon Session:
1pm-2pm Travel to Venue
Venue: Fuente Osmeña Rotunda, Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City
2pm-5pm Art in the Rotunda (Collaborative Art Making) with the theme “Sugbu sa Akong Panumduman” (Cebu in My Mind)
5pm Dinner at Venue
Day 3
November 29, 2008
6am-730am Breakfast at Hotel
730am-830-am Travel to Venue: Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort, Mactan, Cebu
Morning Session:
9am-12nn Workshops at the Maribago Conference Rooms:
Printmaking Workshop: Collograph and Dry Point Etching
Digital Photography Workshop
Found Object Sculpture: “Scrapology”
12nn -1pm Buffet Lunch at Venue
Afternoon Session:
130pm-2pm Assessment of the Exhibit-Conference
2pm-3pm Bidding for Next Host
3pm-330pm Awarding of Certificates
3pm-500pm Free-Time
Evening Session:
5pm Opening of “Garbo Sa Bisaya” Exhibit
6pm Fellowship Dinner
7pm Onwards – VIVA Solidarity Night
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