The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley is delighted to host a virtual talk by the eminent Manila-based academic, curator, and art historian, Patrick D. Flores .
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DATE: Friday, May 8, 2020
TIME: 6pm Berkeley | 9am Manila (+1 day) | Calculate Your Local Time
This event will also be live streamed on the Institute's FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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Talk Abstract
This talk is mainly a reflection on my practice in writing art history and curating contemporary art. When I mention terms like art history, curating, and contemporary art, I reconsider certain procedures that have rendered them conceptually persuasive; stake out the shifting localities within which they may achieve another social thickness and political valence; and open them up for reconstruction between and beyond their spheres of hegemonic and transformative effects. Prompted by the harrowing pandemic in our midst, the talk will likewise try to reflect on the nature of the discipline through the nature of the historical image and the naturalesa of the artistic agency. Naturalesa derived from Spanish refers to nature, but in the Philippine language translates into a disposition or a bodys immunity in relation to external forces. Taking a more generous conception of nature as at once ecology and mediation, I complicate art history with the difficult processes of migrancy, convergence, and intimacy partly through curatorial work.
Speaker Bio
Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He was one of the curators of Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art in 2000 and the Gwangju Biennale in 2008. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and an Asian Public Intellectuals Fellow in 2004. Among his publications are Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art (1999); Remarkable Collection: Art, History, and the National Museum (2006); and Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia (2008). He was a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council (2010).
The South Asia Art Initiative, inaugurated in Spring 2018, is the culmination of a comprehensive art program, built over the past several years, that promoted conversation around the visual cultures of South Asia through talks, conferences, and exhibitions. The goal of the Initiative is to move onto the next level with local, national, and international collaborations that combine creative energies with insights drawn from scholarly research. To read more about the Initiative or to help support its various fundraising goals, please click HERE.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
