PRESS RELEASE
Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 3 PM
Online Talk | General Public
The climate emergency is a challenge that needs collaborative effort, with artists and creatives as crucial voices. Whether it be through practical design or compelling messaging, artists create ideas that spark possible solutions. Creativity opens up avenues for collaboration across disciplines and so, with the right synergy, artistic ideas may well be seeds that can germinate plausible responses to climate change.
Recognizing the relevance of artists and creatives in contributing to the effort, the museum presents an online talk with visual artist Norberto Roldan and writer and creative director Erwin Romulo that focuses on creative ways in addressing the climate crisis. Demonstrating a re-thinking of art practice and production of new knowledge, the talk covers previous projects that “plot paths from this present to other less troubling futures.” Norberto Roldan of Green Papaya talks about Storm Signal while Erwin Romulo discusses the Masungi Electrocardiograms project, an unrealized project and the other still in the planning stages, the conversation focuses on the re-imagining the environment and artists’ engagement with it.
About the Speakers
Norberto Roldan
Norberto Roldan, a practicing visual artist represented in several landmark survey exhibitions abroad, took his AB-Philosophy from St. Pius X Seminary, BFA-Advertising from the University of Santo Tomas, and MA-Art Studies/Museum Studies Program at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. One of the founders of the Black Artists in Asia in 1986, he also was the founding artistic director of VIVA EXCON (Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference,) launched in 1990 in Bacolod City. He remains the artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects which he co-founded in 2000. Storm Signal is one of Green Papaya’s projects.
Erwin Romulo
Born and based in Manila, Erwin Romulo is an award-winning writer, magazine editor, music producer, and creative director. He is most known for being the founding editor-in-chief of the Philippine edition of Esquire magazine as well producing musical scores for films such as On the Job, Honor Thy Father, and Buy Bust as well as the sound design of A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery.
Source: https://www.nangmagazine.com/ten-years-after/erwin-romulo
To learn more about our current exhibition Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern, click here.
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