How have Contemporary Artists

expanded the range of mediums and

techniques they utilize?
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Artwork of Contemporary Art are:

Process- Location- Interactive Collaborative

Oriented Specific
 It's exploring  it is to  The value of  they can
and address interactive generate
experimentin socially art lies in its ideas and
g with significant ability to create works
materials issues engage that would
and and/or raise viewers in a be
techniques. social more improbable,
consciousne meaningful if not
ss. way. impossible,
when
working
individually.
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Process- Location- Interactive Collaborative

Oriented Specific
 It's exploring  it is to  The value of  they can
and address interactive generate
experimentin socially art lies in its ideas and
g with significant ability to create works
materials issues engage that would
and and/or raise viewers in a be
techniques. social more improbable,
consciousne meaningful if not
ss. way. impossible,
when
working
individually.
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Process- Location- Interactive Collaborative

Oriented Specific
 It's exploring  it is to  The value of  they can
and address interactive generate
experimentin socially art lies in its ideas and
g with significant ability to create works
materials issues engage that would
and and/or raise viewers in a be
techniques. social more improbable,
consciousne meaningful if not
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when
working
individually.
Mark Salvatus Ikoy Ricio Maria Taniguchi Felix Bacolor

Mark Salvatus born in 1980

worked with the prisoners in
Quezon, South Luzon, his home
province. The Secret Garden 2
(2010), is when the prisoners
secretly broke the prison rules
and collected plastic spoons,
forks and other objects, using
which the “secret garden” was
made. In a way, the secret is
held as the scene is not
completely visible to the
Mark Salvatus Ikoy Ricio Maria Taniguchi Felix Bacolor

This artwork was specifically designed for a

small room at the museum of Vargas. The
location of this works adds value to the
experience of the viewers.

The Secret
Garden 2
(2010) by
Mark
Mark Salvatus Ikoy Ricio Maria Taniguchi Felix Bacolor

In one of Ikoy Ricio works, he printed several trump cards with

pictures of car accidents in the Philippines. He completed them
with statistical data on body count and other information. He laid
the trump cards on a table with matching chairs and invited the
viewers to “play” the morbid game. It also mocked the
commercial adoration of speed and excessive material
possessions.
Mark Salvatus Ikoy Ricio Maria Taniguchi Felix Bacolor
Mark Salvatus Ikoy Ricio Maria Taniguchi Felix Bacolor

Maria Taniguchi is a Dumaguete artist who lives and

works in manila. In her work Untitled (Mirrors), she
used the conventional style of acrylic on canvas and
the contemporary style of abstraction. This was the
hallmark of the Modern Art of the 20th century. Using
these styles, she gave her artwork a modern touch of
meditation on form. The process of painting is crucial
mode of creation and reception; it no longer remains
only “pictorial”. It gives an idea that the artist painted
the canvas grid by grid, carefully and patiently. The
painting and observing activities make the process
similar to meditation.
Mark Salvatus Ikoy Ricio Maria Taniguchi Felix Bacolor

This work of Maria Taniguchi is a Conceptual

Performance that can be site-specific,
sculptural, and environmental. At the Vargas
Museum, this piece is a part of Echo Studios
installation (2011). Another unit of this
installation is quite simple. It is a wall made
up of a network of bricks that are only visible
up close. Set up in the West Wing of the
museum, it sets a positive space in contrast
to the door that leads to the next hall. It is
both a painting and a sculpture that
communicates with the atmosphere of the
museum.
 Mark Salvatus Ikoy Ricio Maria Taniguchi Felix Bacolor

Felix Bacolor converted an independent space at the

Museum of Modern Art and Design into the simulacrum
(a ‘false’ representation that is not necessarily ‘original’
but is replicated or recreated) it is set up as the waiting
room of a terminal with fixed metallic chairs and a
digital clock that painstakingly logs the passage of time.
The installations allows the
viewers to weave the stories of
travel space, stuck between
motion and rest. It connects them Waiting (2012)
with the atmosphere, by Felix Bacolor
dramatization and narration by
being interactive and site-specific.
 Modern art combines form and process. It bridges the fields of
art and science as well as mediums and techniques. The artforms
are a mix of modern and conventional styles, along with
electronic and digital techniques.

For example, Ian Jaucian takes inspiration from

science and connects it with visual art through
different types of artworks. He created a line of
robotics-based works. One of his works is called
“liquid robot”, which is triggered by music. He
emerged the principles of mechanics and
computers with conventional techniques and
mediums to create artworks that present the
question, “What is it to be human?”
 Is an abstract creative item by
Dumaguete based artists who
presented as excavators of
exotic creatures they shape
out of earthenware procured
from surrounding areas, was
shown in Mariyah Gallery in
Dumaguete City in 2013.

Anonymous
Animals
 Cristina Taniguchi Mark Valenzuela

Michael Teves Benjie Ranada

are the artists who gathered scientific data

Danilo Sollesta (including the scientific and common animal
names, taxonomy, morphology, history etc.)
for the animals they (actually made)
“excavated”.
 Hersley Ven Casero,
he displayed the
terracotta animals as
specimens.

The curator, Flaudette

May Datuin, wrote
fictional stories around
these artists in the form
of a journal or field
notes.

It is inspired from the works of Joan Fontcuberta

and Pere Formiguera and their book Fauna (1999,
In addition to being part of the exhibition, Arte y Proyektos Editoriales, SL, Seville, Spain).
the project is also a performance and Although Fauna is the book-form inspiration,
concept. Anonymous Animals is also virtually displayed.
“Anonymous Animals” spans
over the fields of art (terracotta
sculpture), theatre, fiction and
photography, environmental
ang human research, and
humanity. It is also a
simulacrum – a “fake” real-that
creates a highly realistic
(hyperreal) world that does not
have a real equivalent.