Artist's Talk: Kidlat Tahimik @ Lopez Memorial Museum

Artist's Talk: Kidlat Tahimik
January 20, 2007
Lopez Memorial Museum

Filmaker Kidlat Tahimik talks about his experience in Ifugao teaching a village community to document its practices, some of which are fast disappearing.

Thanks to four centuries of missionary zealousness, Thomasite school curricula and TV Eat Bulaga culture, the ancient tribal wisdom is an endangered species. Kidlat Tahimik is exploiting the user-friendliness of video technology so that Ifugaos can themselves document their old civilization which is being buried in the Lahar of Hollywood Images.

One of the take-off points of Kidlat Tahimik for his talk is a life-sized rattan woven mannequin, wearing a red Ifugao G-string which welcomes viewers to Lopez Museum's current exhibition Fuzzy Logic: Art and Technology. As viewers approach him with his Bamboo Kamera, they will see themselves in his lens. The two represent a continuum of Kidlat's lifelong battle to make Filipinos aware of how to Trojan horses of Hollywood trample on our indio-genius strengths as a people.

This talk complements the exhibition Fuzzy Logic: Art and Technology. The exhibition is the Lopez Memorial Museum's contribution to Zero in 5, a collaborative project among Ateneo Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, Bahay Tsinoy, Lopez Memorial Museum and Museo Pambata. In Zero in 5 marks the 5th year that this museum consortium has pooled its efforts to share and expand museum-going audiences and more pointedly focus on bridging formal and museum education modes.

Artist's Talk: Kidlat Tahimik will be held at the Lopez Memorial Museum in Pasig City.

For more details on Artist's Talk: Kidlat Tahimik on January 20, 2007, please call Ms. Fanny San Pedro or Ms. Joy Victoria at 631-2417.