Greetings!
2) My primary interest during this trip is to research on new creative cultures, particularly new tendencies/trajectories in visual art, non-gallery based contemporary art practice, media-based art, new music, film- and video-making practice in Saigon."
Below is something you can relay to the people I'm meeting this Friday. Since we'll be meeting mostly film and video people, I've written something the highlights my film/video-related activities:
I'm a curator, cultural activist and research-based arts practitioner based in Metro Manila, Philippines and Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
My creative activities started in late 1999, at first exploring poetry, text-based art and performance, later investigating video and new media then various forms experimental documentation and animation techiniques. My curatorial activities in film started in 2001 by holding film screenings and discussions platforms. Since 2005 I've been involved in several film and video screening, as well as media-art related platforms. My current affiliations in film and video include being programmer-at-large for Urban Nomad Film Festival, programming consultant for University of the Philippines Film Institute and founder of SHRT-CRCT touring short-format film and video screening platform. I'm also part of the organizing committee of the Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas, which organized the recently concluded Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference at Golden Central Hotel, July 1 to 4.
For the purposes of the meeting this Friday, my main interest is in short work, since a lot of my curatorial work involves that--especially in my upcoming/ongoing screening platforms, exhibitions and festivals (such as: http://urbannomadfilmfest.blogspot.com/).
I do hope some of the artists will be able to bring samples of their work.
I do hope this will suffice. Thanks again, Himiko. See you.
All the best!





















