Yang Yeung at 98B

One more for the road!

Transi(en)t Manila closes this year's edition with a presentation by Yang Yeung on plans for Project Glocal STAMPED! which documents this art journey over its last few iterations. She will also present primer on soundpocket, the first organization in HongKong dedicated to promoting sound art of which she is the founder and executive director.

Catch Yang Yeung at 98B COLLABoratory this Sunday, November 30 at 3:00 PM in Escolta. Admission is free.

Artists Talk: Concepcion + Huang

Doubleheader Friday

It's a doubleheader this coming Friday! 

Two of our Transi(en)t Manila residents are giving their artists talk at 98B COLLABoratory on 21 November, Friday. 

Taiwan-based Po Chih Huang attended graduate school at the Taipei National University of Arts. His past works were mainly paintings and graffiti, but he is now more interested in video works which explore the relationship between enterprise, economic conditions and self-organization. His talk will start at 3PM. 

Ernest Concepcion has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines. He has since moved to the US in 2002 and participated in art residencies in New York and Beijing. He is now a full time artist dividing his time between Manila and Brooklyn. Ernest will launch his work for Project Glocal and give his talk at 430PM. 

Artist Talk x Kok Yoong Lim: Humans and Digital Footprints

Kok Yoong Lim shows still captures from Super Corridor,
where footprints were recorded at 3AM, when nobody was physically there.

Malaysian artist Kok Yoong Lim delivered his artist's talk last September 12 at 98B COLLABoratory.

Wing explores the relationship of new technologies and human existence, specifically how these technological developments affects how we express our identities.

It was a full house at 98B. 

"When You Are Not Your Body" explored the disembodied culture of chat and e-mail. Wing placed a camera that takes pictures of those which view it. Using a digital video feed, the viewer is then forced to see him or herself as an "other." The viewer is there in the gallery and yet elsewhere. The result is both disconcerting yet comforted by the familiar in a strange space.

Meanwhile, in "Super Corridor," the artist takes a space that is usually ignored: the common hallway where everyone passes and yet barely pays any mind or attention to it. Wing's camera captures the moment in time when a person walks on that corridor and preserves and reinforces that person's presences in a very specific time and space.

Dayang Yraola and Kok Yoong Lim

As existence and the meaning of life are his art's central themes, Wing will continue to work with technology and how everyone's experience of life is mediated and/or drastically altered by cyberspace and other contemporary phenomena related to digital existence.

Wing with the student interns, Marika Constantino of 98B and Dayang Yraola of Project Glocal

Artist Talk: Kok Yoong Lim

Project Glocal Manila is proud to present Kok Yoong Lim from Malaysia as the fifth artist to give a talk this year at 98B. 

Kok Yoong Lim works with new technologies to explore and investigate the human dimension of technological development and discourse. Most of his works take the form of (interactive) installation. He is currently lecturing at the Global School of Media in Soongsil University, Korea. 

The talk will happen in 98B's Collaboratory on September 12, Friday, at 3PM. Admission is free. 

Artist Talk x Urich Lau & Shih Tung Lo

Everyone is invited to the fourth installment of Project Glocal 2014 which features artist's talks by Urich Lau and Shih Tung Lo on Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 98B COLLABoratory. 

Shih Tung Lo is a Taiwanese curator and artist whose works emphasize the temporality in the processes of creating and interacting with the community, networks or spectators. He is interested in exploring the fissures and piecing together the fragments--and even fictionalizing--forgotten history. His works are about seeking one's identity, residence, hometown and city within contemporary society--places which are inhabited by long forgotten and unseen ghosts. 

Singaporean Urich Lau's interest lies in using technology with analogue and digital media to explore modes of presentations in moving and still images, space and time, perceptions and perspectives. His works concern issues in contemporary art, culture and heritage in today's contexts. The subject matters are presented through methods of interaction, intervention and influence between the artist, artwork and audience. He makes art to talk about art. 

Talks will be held at 3PM, 98B COLLABoratory in the First United Building, 413 Escolta Street, Binondo, Manila. Admission is free. 

Artist Talk x Tang Kwok Hin

Project Glocal invites everyone to an artist talk by Tang Kwok Hin on June 13, Friday at 3PM at 98B in Escolta, Manila. 

Join Kwok Hin as he visits Manila once again as part of his participation with Transi(en)t Manila. Kwok Hin largely works with collage of different medium including digital videos. He proposes that artists should hold suspicious attitude towards their living and life. For him combinations of materials are result of processed that has undergone many factors. Exploring their other forms of existence is what motivates his art.

Kwok Hin is based in Hong Kong and has active practice as curator and artist in the region. He was recently resident of Kuandu Art Museum in Taipei and currently a grantee of Asian Cultural Council.

The talk will be held at 98B's COLLABoratory at the Mezanine Level of the First United Building, 413 Escolta Street, Binondo, Manila. Admission is free. 

Witty Fruits

Thai artist Wit Primkanchanapong delivered his artist’s talk in Manila last April 13, at 98B, the Escolta based art collective. Witty Fruits looks at how his art originates from his close observations of the physical and contextual characteristics of a site. There is a great degree of playfulness in his works, as they intervene into existing spaces, reveal invisible structures and refresh the experience of the space. 

Transi(en)t Manila curator Dayang Yraola introducing the artist.

As this was Wit’s initial visit to the city, it would be interesting to see what sort of interplay between the spaces he would come up with for Manila Transi(en)t. 

Wit showing a slide from his Witty Fruits presentation.

Wit Primkanchanapong has previously participated in several internation exhibitions including the Yokohama Triennale (2005), Sharjah Biennale (2007), Singapore Biennale (2008), Asia Pacific Triennale (2009) and Aichi Triennale (2013).