TutoK RE-VIEW: PASANG-MASID opens @ CCP on Feb 15

TutoK RE-VIEW: PASANG-MASID
opens at Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
on February 15, 2007

On National Arts Month 2007, the Cultural Center of the Philippines presents the TutoK Karapatan Project RE-VIEW: Pasang-Masid A site-specific exhibit utilizing cultural diggings, collections and collaborations, with the CCP itself as venue and resource for a visual scrutiny of the intricate workings of culture, power and politics. This scrutiny takes place as a passing review of archival materials and works from the CCP collection, works and appropriations from past exhibits, and progresses towards various interventions by contemporary artists as a way of reclaiming and asserting community initiatives in art practice.

This project is curated by Noel Soler Cuizon and Karen Ocampo Flores, with Patrick Flores as project consultant and writer. Featured as collaborating artists are Noell El Farol, Ruel Caasi, Alwin Reamillo, Lyra Abueg Garcellano, UGAT Lahi, Elvert dela Cruz Bañares, Lotsu Manes, Kirby Roxas and Mervy Pueblo in cooperation with various artists who were asked to contribute clothes and boxes for Yard, an installation/ durational live art project conceptualized by Noell El Farol.

The exhibit takes place from February 15 to April 1 at the fourth floor spaces of the CCP: Bulwagang Juan Luna (Small Gallery), Pasilyo Victorio Edades (Fourth Floor Hallway) and the Atriums. Opening is at 6:00 p.m. to be preceded by a KURO Satellite Meeting from 2:30-5:00 at the MKP Multipurpose Hall also at the fourth floor.

KURO forums are discussions organized by partner local communities dealing with science and technology issues affecting the artistic community and the larger
socio-cultural sphere. In partnership with TutoK, this forum is titled "Art, Technology, Advocacy and Society: Issues and Concerns" and will feature Mideo M. Cruz and Al-Nezzar Buday Ali.

Tutok Karapatan or TutoK is an initiative of visual artists which aims to offer diverse perspectives on the subject of human rights and facilitate its discussion among various audiences. Since November 2006, the project has presented “Publikhaan: Making Human Rights Issues Public, a public arts festival organized by the Neo-Angono Artists Collective in Angono, Rizal; Dos Por Dos at the Boston Gallery; and the traveling exhibit “Perspektiba at the University of Santo Tomas and St. Scholastica’s College. TutoK will also have another National Arts Month event with the presentation of Perspektiba 3 from February 20 to March 1 at the UP Faculty Center Galleries and Hardin ng Mga Diwata grounds in cooperation with the UP Department of Art Studies.

For inquiries about “RE-VIEW: Pasang Masid. please contact CCP at Tel. 832-3702.