There Is No Up Or Down, Only Attraction is something someone said to me in a dream while I was falling down an endless hole.

The short animation is about finding love in dehumanizing experiences, when it feels like all is lost and everything is endlessly collapsing into a late capitalist digitized hellscape there are still opportunities to be human, spaces where we can pull ourselves away from the rigorous grid of living and working in a giant city and momentarily connect with each other.

An original Daata commission.

About Jeremy Couillard

Educated as a painter, Couillard is a self-taught new media artist who has made numerous well-received and internationally exhibited video, virtual reality, and video game works, accompanied by installations, paintings, and ephemera. His works often deploy humorous narratives about future dystopias to explore what motivates us as humans to work, live, and create.

Jeremy Couillard was born in 1980 in Michigan. He is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University and his BA from Michigan State University. Couillard has exhibited at Zabludowicz Collection (London, U.K.), The Bass Museum (co-commissioned by Daata) (Miami Beach, FL), Phillips Auction House (co-commissioned by Daata) (New York, NY), yours, mine & ours gallery (New York, NY), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Louis B. James (New York, NY), Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), and has screened his work at the New Museum and Rhizome (New York, NY), Salon 94 (New York, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA).

Couillard’s work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, VICE’s The Creators Project, The Washington Post, FAD, artnet news, ARTNews, the Huffington Post, and the Observer. Couillard’s work is in important collections including the Zabludowicz Collection.

Inspired by the phrase ‘Don’t hate the player, hate the game’, this collection examines the ways in which digital artists turn to gaming to examine our relationships with power, beauty and reality. Blurring definitions of high and low, digital artists are increasingly creating games as art and vice versa. For many artists, this genre-bending approach allows dark and complex issues (such as greed and inequality) to be explored in a space free of real-world consequences, raising moral questions about our responsibility to future generations. For others, the gaming industry’s technological advancements open up a whole new world of aesthetic expression, enabling them to transcend reality and revel in the sheer pleasure of pixelated environments.

Jeremy Couillard

1. Prelude

2017, HD video, mp4, 00:03:00

An original Daata commission

Titles and digitally altered music from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV 1008 form the backdrop for this environment where a rat duck man named Uncle Sad Bedroom travels through fantastical video game versions of different moons in our solar system trying to find his place.

Keiken

Dream Time Life Simulation

2021, HD video, NFT, 00:04:19

An original Daata commission

Dream Time Life Simulation explores emancipatory imagined technologies, structures and worlds that could exist in the metaverse. Following Keiken's recent works, Viral Energy and Battle of Reality, Dream Time Life Simulation is the third episode that follows a protagonist called ME. In Dream Time Life Simulation, ME activates ALL, a decentralised reflection technology that allows you to subvert your reality. In this new reality ME's avatars are MA and MX. Using MA's metathinking they decide to create a technology called Dream Time Life Simulation that allows them to portal into their memories and dreams. Here they explore their multiple consciousness, ancestral wisdom and diasporic memories and dreams of their motherland, Veracruz, Mexico.

Maria Mahfooz

30 q’s with Maria Mahfooz

2019, Video with sound, 00:02:48

An original Daata commission

Maria Mahfooz 2019 film 30 Questions with Maria Mahfooz is a parody of Vogues’ ’73 questions with...’ series in which the magazine interviews celebrities as they walk around their house. In Mahfooz’s version the artist created a surrogate digital representation of herself situated on the physical streets of Manor Park in London, an act of reframing and restaging tropes as a signifier of her dislocation of identity in a loss of what constitutes as her selfhood. Superficial questions being asked of the artist subtly shift to inquiries regarding racial abuse and embedded prejudice, as well as echoing the duality of her cultural background.

Elliott Dodd

The Race (Sunlit Uplands)

2019, HD video, mp4, ​00:03:09

An original Daata commission

A brief meditation on a journey. revolving toward a fictitious, undecipherable future.

A disorientated empty void, obscured by damp, turgid flesh and a will to regain control. The uplands are sunny, and we're headed toward them.

Takeshi Murata

Tennis

2015, HD video, mp4, 00:00:33

An original Daata commission

Murata’s 6 videos are 3D animated vignettes of an old man in a white suit aggressively “making it rain”, A silently cynical Popeye and a witch character–a hybrid of a Kabuki theatre villain and a generic Disney witch–gesturing its fingers as if scheming and cupping its ear listening suspiciously. Each are short and a gestural vignette of various combined TV, film and fairy tale archetypes. The sound is by Robert Beatty.

Letta Shtoryn

Algorithmic Oracle (3)

HD video, mp4, 00:04:08 

An original Daata commission

Algorithmic Oracle attempts to grasp multiple realities at the same time. Letting a simulation game algorithm decide according to its own standards how a real-life event could have unfolded. One of the scenarios was witnessed IRL. SIMS3 is used here as a way to employ a "higher" algorithmic power to find out possible "what-if" scenarios of the experienced event. 

All the players in the video are crafted to fit their real characteristics and looks. The game starts every scenario with a single directed action, controlled by the player. After the action is completed the game runs scenarios based on its own probability algorithm without interference resulting in a multitude of outcomes.

Jacky Connolly

Amygdala

2017, HD video, mp4, 00:03:00

An original Daata commission

In Anhedonia (2017), a machinima film with six chapters, Jacky Connolly turns her filmmaking practice towards a mysterious group home in the virtual American South. Several avatars live in three small buildings near the town's railroad yard, where their lives are punctuated by hours spent in front of a screen. 

Images from elsewhere begin to intrude with mounting intensity, as the boundaries of the film are fractured by the characters’ visual and auditory hallucinations. These moments of psychosis give insight into the characters’ shared histories, as well as the dissociative atmosphere of their cultural landscape.

Rachel Rossi

Recursive Truth

2019, HD video, mp4, 00:02:55

An original Daata x Phillips commission

Recursive Truth is a new video work based on generative AI research, using video game mods and deep fakes to explore loss, memory, and truth as a medium. Bugs created inside the work expose the fragility of memory and ultimately either destroy the video game or function only as visual gags

Founded in 2015 by David Gryn, Daata is the leading platform for digital artworks.

Daata commissions original, digital artworks by established and emerging artists, allowing viewers to stream or download high-quality digital artworks on any device.

Daata offers a simple way to build, curate and display a collection of high-quality digital artworks without the additional costs of space, storage and security.

Voluntary Associations is an anarchist fantasy animation in a video game aesthetic. Workers leave their factory to join a psychedelic concert put on by three giant heads who are blowing up instruments of oppression while everyone cheers them on. Eventually, all the factories collapse and a giant monster twerks above the stage while UFOs plant a forest on top of the crowd. The video ends with the monster lounging in the newly planted forest. Artefacts from the previous society are strewn about, only used as kitschy decoration. I'm fantasizing that a crisis could be used not as a way to exploit peoples' disorientation to further empower a small elite, but rather as a moment to imagine a new future where we can eliminate so much of the bullshit we've been coerced into upholding.

An original Daata commission.

About the Artists

Educated as a painter, Couillard is a self-taught new media artist who has made numerous well-received and internationally exhibited video, virtual reality, and video game works, accompanied by installations, paintings, and ephemera. His works often deploy humorous narratives about future dystopias to explore what motivates us as humans to work, live, and create.

Jeremy Couillard was born in 1980 in Michigan. He is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University and his BA from Michigan State University. Couillard has exhibited at Zabludowicz Collection (London, U.K.), The Bass Museum (co-commissioned by Daata) (Miami Beach, FL), Phillips Auction House (co-commissioned by Daata) (New York, NY), yours, mine & ours gallery (New York, NY), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Louis B. James (New York, NY), Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), and has screened his work at the New Museum and Rhizome (New York, NY), Salon 94 (New York, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA).

Couillard’s work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, VICE’s The Creators Project, The Washington Post, FAD, artnet news, ARTNews, the Huffington Post, and the Observer. Couillard’s work is in important collections including the Zabludowicz Collection.

Tad Mol, The Inventor of the Letter G shows a couple fighting in their living room when they are suddenly interrupted by a commercial for a shamanic energy drink. They decide to make a pilgrimage to the shaman to imbibe the mysterious beverage. Once they consume it, they take on different stylistic forms and go on a short adventure through a mechanical universe created by the shaman.

The shaman inhabits a satirical “renaissance-man” space. He knows Tai Chi, lives in a hut on a hill and also runs a mystical energy drink corporation from his home. At some point, according to the title of the piece, he also may have had something to do with the invention of a letter. It’s funny to think about someone actually inventing the letter ‘G’, or any letter of the alphabet. The more information that envelops our lives the easier it is to forget that there is an evolution of human actions and labour and ideas creating almost everything we see and experience in civilization. Every bit of an object or information has stories or emotions behind it that are totally forgotten and oftentimes claimed or manipulated by those who probably didn’t have much of a role to play in them.

An original Daata commission.

About the Artists

Educated as a painter, Couillard is a self-taught new media artist who has made numerous well-received and internationally exhibited video, virtual reality, and video game works, accompanied by installations, paintings, and ephemera. His works often deploy humorous narratives about future dystopias to explore what motivates us as humans to work, live, and create.

Jeremy Couillard was born in 1980 in Michigan. He is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University and his BA from Michigan State University. Couillard has exhibited at Zabludowicz Collection (London, U.K.), The Bass Museum (co-commissioned by Daata) (Miami Beach, FL), Phillips Auction House (co-commissioned by Daata) (New York, NY), yours, mine & ours gallery (New York, NY), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Louis B. James (New York, NY), Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), and has screened his work at the New Museum and Rhizome (New York, NY), Salon 94 (New York, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA).

Couillard’s work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, VICE’s The Creators Project, The Washington Post, FAD, artnet news, ARTNews, the Huffington Post, and the Observer. Couillard’s work is in important collections including the Zabludowicz Collection.

Jeremy Couillard’s Fuzz Spiral had its global premiere in October 2021, from 11.57pm to midnight, across 80 synchronized screens in New York’s Times Square as part of Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment programme, the world’s largest, longest-running digital art exhibition. This is its premiere screening in Asia.

An original Daata commission.

About the Artists

Educated as a painter, Couillard is a self-taught new media artist who has made numerous well-received and internationally exhibited video, virtual reality, and video game works, accompanied by installations, paintings, and ephemera. His works often deploy humorous narratives about future dystopias to explore what motivates us as humans to work, live, and create.

Jeremy Couillard was born in 1980 in Michigan. He is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University and his BA from Michigan State University. Couillard has exhibited at Zabludowicz Collection (London, U.K.), The Bass Museum (co-commissioned by Daata) (Miami Beach, FL), Phillips Auction House (co-commissioned by Daata) (New York, NY), yours, mine & ours gallery (New York, NY), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Louis B. James (New York, NY), Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), and has screened his work at the New Museum and Rhizome (New York, NY), Salon 94 (New York, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA).

Couillard’s work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, VICE’s The Creators Project, The Washington Post, FAD, artnet news, ARTNews, the Huffington Post, and the Observer. Couillard’s work is in important collections including the Zabludowicz Collection.

Inventing Quotidian Monsters: Bjorn Calleja/Doktor Karayom/Ryan Jara/Wyndelle Remonde: A Conversation with Carlomar Daoana and Norman Crisologo

From this crop of artists featured in the Special Exhibitions, a commonality of styles and themes emerges—from the expressive dynamism in their works to the distortions of human figures to the unstinting commitment of portraying the “ugly.” Does inventing quotidian monsters a nascent trend, or has it been there along? What are their shared affinities and aspirations? How does technology aid the creation of their works? Amid the chaos and uncertainty in the world, what ideas do they hope that their works to contribute?

Norman Crisologo and Carlomar Daoana will converse with Bjorn Calleja, Doktor Karayom, Ryan Jara, and Wyndelle Remonde on their creative strategies, their common influences, as well as their radical figurations that constitute some of the most striking images in Philippine visual arts.

Art making is a constant process of mediation between the real and the imagined, the abstract and the symbolic. These artists traverse through their lived realities and conveyed them into woven, mended, constructed, and painted forms.

The World According to Nune: A Discussion on the Life and Work of Nunelucio Alvarado

Nunelucio Alvarado, who lives Sagay City, Negros Occidental, is considered as one of the grand old men of Negrense visual arts. Coming of age during the Martial Law, he was the main chronicler of the life of the sacadas, the contractual sugarcane workers whose plight encapsulated the height of oppression and social injustice in the 1970s. During the ‘90s, Alvarado became one of the most successful artists, winning the Philippine Art Awards twice and exhibiting in important art institutions and festivals. Recently, he was featured in a documentary, Kalibutan ni Nunelucio Alvarado (The World of Nunelucio Alvarado), by the artist’s daughter-in-law, Candy Nagrampa.

In this talk, moderated by Carlomar Daoana, Norman Crisologo, Candy Nangrampa, Karen Flores, and Charlie Co will talk about the importance of Negros as the context of Alvarado’s works, his notable contributions to Social Realism, as well as his lasting influence to a generation of artists.

NFTs: A Year Later with Chris Fussner (Moderator), Luis Buenaventura, Gwen Bautista and Clara Peh

Listen to the Loom: A conversation with the artists and curators of the Philippine Pavilion in the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale de Venezia

Cris Rollo, Abe Garcia, Bing Carino and Tessa Maria Guazon (moderator)

In the Philippines, despite millions of pesos worth of support from the private sector, funding for arts and culture is often deemed insufficient. There has been no formal research on the state and history of arts and culture philanthropy in the Philippines in the private sector - until now. This talk launches the much awaited study commissioned by the British Council on Arts and culture philanthropy in the Philippines – trends, perspectives and opportunities.

Join this panel discussion with Anna India Legaspi of Aklan, Marienell Venegas of Antique, Aina Shane Martinez of Capiz and Margaux Blas of Iloilo. Moderated by Marika Constantino.

Join Daata Curator Olivia Bright in conversation with artist Leeroy New and author Eliza Victoria to discuss their recent commissions for the Daata x AFP AR Art Trail, Aparisyon.

About the Artists

Leeroy New is a Manila-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice overlaps and intersects with different creative industries: fashion, filmmaking, theater, public installations, product design, and performance. This practice of moving across different modes of creative production has become the backbone of his work, driven by concepts of world building, hybrid myth-making, and social change.

Eliza Victoria is the author of several books including the Philippine National Book Award-winning Dwellers, the novel Wounded Little Gods, the graphic novel After Lambana (a collaboration with Mervin Malonzo), and the science fiction novel-in-stories, Nightfall. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several publications, most recently in LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, The Best Asian Speculative Fiction, The Dark Magazine, The Apex Book of World SF Volume 5, Fireside Fiction, and Future SF. She has won prizes in the Philippines’ top literary awards, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Her one-act plays have been staged at the Virgin LabFest at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Dwellers, Wounded Little Gods, and After Lambana are scheduled to be released internationally by Tuttle Publishing in 2022. Visit her at elizavictoria.com.

Artists Jira Duguid (Berlin) and Jeremy Couillard (New York) meet online and create a game space together using a database of their creations. While building together they discuss current ways video games are used as art forms both in the Art world and the Video Game world, they go over cultural production trends, collective consciousness, tropes in video games as well as video games as performance art.

About the Artists

Jeremy Couillard 

Educated as a painter, Couillard is a self-taught new media artist who has made numerous well-received and internationally exhibited video, virtual reality, and video game works, accompanied by installations, paintings, and ephemera. His works often deploy humorous narratives about future dystopias to explore what motivates us as humans to work, live, and create.

Jeremy Couillard was born in 1980 in Michigan. He is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. He received his MFA from Columbia University and his BA from Michigan State University. Couillard has exhibited at Zabludowicz Collection (London, U.K.), The Bass Museum (co-commissioned by Daata) (Miami Beach, FL), Phillips Auction House (co-commissioned by Daata) (New York, NY), yours, mine & ours gallery (New York, NY), Lincoln Center (New York, NY), Louis B. James (New York, NY), Zhulong Gallery (Dallas, TX), Flux Factory (Queens, NY), and has screened his work at the New Museum and Rhizome (New York, NY), Salon 94 (New York, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA).

Couillard’s work has been featured or reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, Art in America, VICE’s The Creators Project, The Washington Post, FAD, artnet news, ARTNews, the Huffington Post, and the Observer. Couillard’s work is in important collections including the Zabludowicz Collection.

Jira Duguid

Jira Duguid is a professional Nontent Creator and self-taught new media artist working with game engines in order to commodify dreams / nightmares / memories for mass distribution online.

Jira releases both solo work and collaborations with her two conspirators on collective / label Fantasia Malware, exploring video games as a form of live performance. From 2015-2020 Jira worked predominantly with art game collective AAA Software releasing three video games (Dystropicana, Data Mutations and Utopias: Navigating Without Coordinates). Jira also cohosts the unhinged podcast New Genesis Online investigating such topics as trans life, queer sex and the dreamcast.

Jira Duguid was born in 1990 in Australia. She has been commissioned by the Royal Opera House and National Gallery (London) and Overkill Festival (Enschede). She has exhibited at transmediale (Berlin), A MAZE. (Berlin), Electromuseum (Moscow), SIGHT + SOUND (Online), Slamdance DIG (Los Angeles), Retune Festival (Berlin), panke.gallery (Berlin).

Duguid's work has been featured or reviewed in publications from Serpentine Galleries (London), Royal College of Art (London), ARTE Tracks, VICE, Syousetsu Subaru Magazine and Edge Magazine.

Join the selected artists of ArtFairPH/Residencies 2021: Faye Abantao (Butanding Barrio), Jao San Pedro (Emerging Islands), Hannah Nantes (Linangan Art Residency, Derek Tumala (Manila Observatory) and Alwin Reamillo (Orange Project) as they share their residency experience. Moderated by Dindin Araneta.

About the Artists

Faye Abantao is a visual artist who was born and raised in Bacolod, Negros Occidental. She collects and deconstructs archival prints and expands with a cluster of disciplines which includes origami, digital collage, image transfer and painting. The artist’s multifold process emanates an interplaying mixture of contents, patterns and images.

Jao San Pedro is a visual artist and interdisciplinary designer working on the intersection of the body and its performativities, spanning movement, imaging, textile, and installation. Her recent explorations examine the body and its capacity to process, break down, transgress, and transgender binary code and structure.

Hannah Nantes is a visual artist based in Antipolo City and an alumna of UP Fine Arts. Through expressive figurative paintings and atmospheric assemblages, her imagery tackles the absurdity of the mundane as well as existential anxieties. She often uses found objects to challenge the passivity in direct images and uses their histories, associations, and presence to negotiate with conflict, both personal and in society.

Derek Tumala is a visual artist that works with the moving image, emerging technologies and industrial materials. Tumala often uses the ambiguity of experience and knowledge in his practice to explore personal politics, interconnectedness, cosmic and scientific thinking.

Alwin Reamillo is an multi-disciplinary artist based in Las Piñas City. His artistic practice encompasses mixed media works, paintings, sculptures, installation art, video art and performance art.

Forms of Intervention, Interventions in Form looks into the distinct art practices of artists Rosa Zerrudo and Angela Silva.

Known for her socially-engaged art projects, Rosa Zerrudo interweaves existing artistic traditions, rituals, and diverse processes through contextual exchange, cultural interventions, and participation to navigate ideas relating to trauma, healing, biodiversity, heritage preservation, and community.

Angela Silva, on the other hand, hauls, invents, and reinvents historical narratives, associations, representations, and nuances, embedded in both image-making and meaning-making in the traditions of photography. Intertwining printmaking, cyanotype (camera-less photography), and mixed-media collage techniques, Silva explores ideas relating to identity, memory, time, and place to conjure layered nuances and meanings.

Moderated by Leslie de Chavez

About the Artists

Known for her socially-engaged art projects, Rosa Zerrudo interweaves existing artistic traditions, rituals, and diverse processes through contextual exchange, cultural interventions, and participation to navigate ideas relating to trauma, healing, biodiversity, heritage preservation, and community.

Angela Silva, on the other hand, hauls, invents, and reinvents historical narratives, associations, representations, and nuances, embedded in both image-making and meaning-making in the traditions of photography. Intertwining printmaking, cyanotype (camera-less photography), and mixed-media collage techniques, Silva explores ideas relating to identity, memory, time, and place to conjure layered nuances and meanings.

Moderated by Leslie de Chavez

What precisely makes a good artist? Why does an artist succeed where others fail? Is there a particular formula? Is it talent? Maybe money? Passion? His ability to construct a social network? Being at the right place at the right moment? Or simply his working capacity as Picasso would have argued? In other words: what do some artists do correct and what do others do wrong?

In the seminar WHY ARE SOME ARTISTS SUCCESSFUL WHILE OTHERS ARE NOT? PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR YOU TO SHOWCASE YOUR ARTWORK we will highlight specific examples of how artists successfully drew attention to their artwork and were able to set up a fruitful network. We will look particularly at a series of “infiltration” and “DIY strategies” that will help you gain more visibility through some concrete examples that will allow you to develop your own strategies with view to the establishment of a fruitful network of personal relationships. Likewise, we will address the most common errors that artists make in the artworld and how to develop successful soft selling ideas. There are many ways of accessing the art system and each artist must elaborate those strategies that fit best with his artwork and his personality. It’s time to analyze and revitalize yours!

About the Artists

Paco Barragán holds an International PhD by the University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain with a residency at the Alvar Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Barrag n is an art theorist, international curator, art advisor and Contributing Editor of the American magazine Artpulse.

Between 2015 and 2017 he was Head of Visual Arts of Cultural Centre Matucana 100 in Santiago de Chile. In 2005 he was one of the co-curators of the International Prague Biennale (IBCA), the Lanzarote Biennial in 2009 and Nuit Blanche Toronto in 2016. Between 2002 and 2021 he has curated 91 international exhibitions in four continents: Europe, USA and Canada, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Barragán has written extensively about the art market and collecting, and he has interviewed major international collectors like Francesca von Habsburg and Han Nefkens. Some of his essays about the art market have appeared in prestigious readers like A History of the Western Art Market: A Sourcebook of Writings on Artists, Dealers, and Markets (2017) published by the University of California Press.

Among his books are included The Art to Come (Subastas Siglo XXI, Madrid, 2002), a survey of 159 artists from all around the world; he is author of the first book written on art fairs The Art Fair Age (CHARTA, Milan, 2008); and the recently released From Roman Feria to Global Art Fair, From Olympia Festival to Neo-liberal Biennial: On the Biennalization of Art Fairs and the Fairization of Biennials (Artpulse Editions, Miami, November 2020), the only book that gives a historical perspective of art fairs and biennials since ancient Greece and Rome until today

What precisely makes a great collector? Is it knowledge? Is it vision? Money? Passion? Or is it his reputation? What does 2678 years of collecting tell us? Are there specific typologies that represent the successful collector per se? And what can we say about the nature of successful collections? Is there a magic formula or a specific curatorial strategy that guarantees success where others fail?

In THE YET UNTOLD STORY OF 2678 YEARS OF COLLECTING: FROM WARRIORS, PHILANTHROPISTS AND MAECENAS TO CONNOISSEURS, AFICIONADOS AND COSMOPOLITES we will review together the fascinating and untold story of 2678 years of collecting and point out who were the successful collectors and what made them stand out. And we will also analyze case studies of booming collections and the curatorial strategy behind that successfully provided more visibility and social acknowledgement to the collector. Whether you’re an artist or an artistic agent, this knowledge will allow you to have more sophisticated and productive relationship with collectors.

About the Artists

Paco Barragán holds an International PhD by the University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain with a residency at the Alvar Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Barrag n is an art theorist, international curator, art advisor and Contributing Editor of the American magazine Artpulse.

Between 2015 and 2017 he was Head of Visual Arts of Cultural Centre Matucana 100 in Santiago de Chile. In 2005 he was one of the co-curators of the International Prague Biennale (IBCA), the Lanzarote Biennial in 2009 and Nuit Blanche Toronto in 2016. Between 2002 and 2021 he has curated 91 international exhibitions in four continents: Europe, USA and Canada, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Barragán has written extensively about the art market and collecting, and he has interviewed major international collectors like Francesca von Habsburg and Han Nefkens. Some of his essays about the art market have appeared in prestigious readers like A History of the Western Art Market: A Sourcebook of Writings on Artists, Dealers, and Markets (2017) published by the University of California Press.

Among his books are included The Art to Come (Subastas Siglo XXI, Madrid, 2002), a survey of 159 artists from all around the world; he is author of the first book written on art fairs The Art Fair Age (CHARTA, Milan, 2008); and the recently released From Roman Feria to Global Art Fair, From Olympia Festival to Neo-liberal Biennial: On the Biennalization of Art Fairs and the Fairization of Biennials (Artpulse Editions, Miami, November 2020), the only book that gives a historical perspective of art fairs and biennials since ancient Greece and Rome until today

Professor Sofia Guillermo from the Department of Art Studies will contextualize the works and significance of Soriano within Philippine contemporary art practice. Joining her in this conversation is visual artist Pandy Aviado, who knew Soriano especially during their European sojourn. Moderated by Boots Herrera.

Sofia G. Guillermo is a lifelong art history student and current Chair of the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Following the successful Baguio studio visits screened last year, Nona Garcia, Abbie SJ Lara, and Kawayan de Guia usher us into the studios of six artists who helped develop the artistic community of the summer capital since the 1980s. These include National Artists BenCab and Kidlat Tahimik together with Katrin De Guia, Tommy Hafalla, Rene Aquitania, and Willy Magtibay. Among them are founding members of the Baguio Arts Guild and contributed in making Baguio a major center for contemporary art nationally and internationally.

Bolipata and Borlongan Talyer: Playground of Dreams

Moderated by Boots Herrera

Meet our participating galleries and gain insight into their exhibitions for #ArtFairPH 2022:

• Boston Gallery

• CANVAS.PH

• Galerie Roberto

• Galerie Stephanie

• Lawig Diwa x Gallery Down South

• Salcedo Private View

Meet our participating galleries and gain insight into their exhibitions for #ArtFairPH 2022:

• Art Verité

• Avellana ArtGallery

• District Gallery

• Ibagiw Art Fest x Gallery 2600

• Luzviminda

• Tin-aw

Meet our participating galleries and gain insight into their exhibitions for #ArtFairPH 2022:

• Art Underground

• Paseo Gallery

• Silverlens

• Strange Fruit

Meet our participating galleries and gain insight into their exhibitions for #ArtFairPH 2022:

• a\terHEN

• Gajah Gallery

• Mayoral

• Pinaglabanan X

• Qube Gallery

• White Walls Gallery

Meet our participating galleries and gain insight into their exhibitions for #ArtFairPH 2022:

• 1335/Mabini

• Art Elaan

• Art For Space

• Eskinita Art Gallery

• Kaida Contemporary

• VIVA ExCon Dasun Bacolod x Orange Project

Meet our participating galleries and gain insight into their exhibitions for #ArtFairPH 2022:

• Art Cube Gallery

• LANGGIKIT x Museo De Oro x Art Portal Gallery

• Artery Art Space

• J Studio

• MONO8

• Ysobel Art Gallery

Meet our participating galleries and gain insight into their exhibitions for #ArtFairPH 2022:

• Altro Mondo

• Art Agenda S.E.A.

• Grounded Holistic Arts and Culture Studio

• The Crucible

• The Metro Gallery

• YOD Gallery

Meet our participating galleries and gain insight on their exhibitions for #ArtFairPH 2022:

• Cyber Baat

• León Gallery

• Modeka Art

• Secret Fresh

• Yavuz Gallery

As one ventures into pottery the basic fundamentals are are important to grasp. We are lucky to have Jezzel Wee and Marco Rosario who have lived and experienced pottery-making in Japan. They will demonstrate the three essential techniques of handbuilding (pinching, coiling and slabs) before the final step of wheel-throwing.

Curated by Pablo Capati III and in collaboration with J Studio.

About the artists

Marco Rosario is a potter based on Rizal. He set up his studio after working on Tsugaru Kanayama Pottery, a traditional Japanese tableware company known for making unglazed ceramics located in Aomori, Japan. He likes exploring different clay bodies and effects on different firing processes. He gained his knowledge on ceramics by working with known local and international potters. He's currently exploring electric kiln firings but also experienced in gas and wood fuel kilns.

Jezzel Wee is a ceramic artist based in Quezon City. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts major in Painting. She finished a 3-year apprenticeship from the Tsugaru Kanayama Pottery, Aomori, Japan in 2017. In 2018 she was selected for a residency in Adelaide, Australia under Box Plot Projects and TU Collab. She taught at the UP College of Fine Arts from 2018 to 2021. Through the years, she has worked with various local and international ceramic artists.

She is currently practicing her profession full-time. Currently, she finds inspiration in the complexities and organic forms of marine life and nature.

Clay is quite a difficult medium. Local avantgarde ceramic installation artists Krista Nogueras and Ella Mendoza will be joining us today to discuss their process. They will draw upon their residency experience in Singapore as they teach us how to create installations in a foreign country.

This project is made possible through the sponsorship of TU Collab.

Curated by Pablo Capati III and in collaboration with J Studio.

About the Artists

Ella Mendoza (b. 1993) completed her second degree in Art History from the University of the Philippines. A painting major by training, she started doing ceramics in 2015 and has since been an active presence in the field.

With an extensive engagement in the process of making functional wares in her early years of working with clay, she later realized how this familiarity materialized in the themes and forms of her latter works — of which were conceptual and sculptural in nature – and which, gravitated towards a play on contemporary counterparts of traditional vessels.

As a full-time visual artist, she continues to produce and exhibit these works and, at the same time, pursues functional pottery on the side as means to support her art-making.

Krista Nogueras earned her BFA from the University of the Philippines in 2009. Nogueras creates sculpture and installation works that explore human psyche and historicities. She works predominantly with ceramics using traditional hand building techniques as her backbone, while exploration and experimentation are fundamental to her practice. She combines surface and form with various stain and glaze painting, print and mark-making techniques. She has exhibited her work locally and internationally. Her first solo exhibition Lake Predicament at Artinformal Gallery was shortlisted for the Fernando Zobel Prize for Visual Arts at the 2019 Ateneo Art Awards. In 2018, Nogueras was selected for and participated in T U Collab Singapore Art Residency and Exhibition.

We are joined today by two of the most seasoned Philippinel potters, Mr. Jon Pettyjohn and Mr. Joey de Castro. Choosing a path in clay is full of challenges. Both artists, who have found success in their craft, will discuss events in their past, present and future, that fueled their pursuit of pottery as a career.

Curated by Pablo Capati III and in collaboration with J Studio.

About the artists

Considered as one of the most inquisitive and experimental ceramic artists, Master Potter Joey De Castro is known for his unique clay textures, and alchemy of glazes that gives his pieces a distinct earthy depth of character. Joey has been actively participating and spearheading the movement to unify the local community of contemporary stoneware potters. His aim to put pottery to the level of awareness of the regular Filipino led to teaching pottery in UP College of Fine Arts, and the opening of Sierra Madre Gallery in 2018 as a platform for emerging local ceramicists.

Jon Pettyjohn is a Filipino-American potter who learned ceramics in Barcelona in the early 1970’s and returned to the Philippines in the mid 70’s to establish, with his wife Tessy, a workshop at the foothills of Mt. Makiling in Calamba. They have specialized in functional stoneware and porcelain in the Asian tradition fired in high temperature gas and wood kilns. They have exhibited their works at many galleries and museums in the country and have participated in events and residencies in Korea, Japan, China and Thailand. They established a pottery school in Manila in the mid 1980’s which continued for 20+ years that trained a new generation of artist-potters.