ARTFAIRPH/TALKS

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Archival collections have gained significance in terms of its historical and artistic values as well as for its contribution to the practices of contemporary artists and filmmakers. This panel includes archivists, art historians, curators, and artists involved in managing different archival collections who will share strategies in archival management and approaches in public access while maintaining security and ethical concerns.

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About the Speaker/s

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Eileen Legaspi Ramirez is an Associate Professor of the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Art Studies. Currently working within UP’s Doctorate in Social Development program in line with research on the understudied plight of labor and potencies of cultural work particularly in the context of site-specific community art initiatives across the Philippines. She continues to work across the fields of criticism and art history. She presently serves as editorial collective member of the journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, as well as Research Advisory Committee member of The Flow of History collaborative project between Asia Art Archive and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions. She is Editor of Thirteen Artists: Cipher of Stasis and Flux, an upcoming book on the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists co-published by the CCP and Eskinita Art Farm.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Benedict “Bono” Salazar Olgado, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies, where he teaches archival theory and practice. He is the founding director of the National Film Archives of the Philippines and has worked on landmark restorations, including Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (1975/2013) and On My Way to India, Consciousness I Reached China (1968/2013). Beyond film preservation, he consults on archiving and collection management for institutional and private art collections, and has advised artists’ archives including that of Danilo Dalena, At Macalungan, and Roberto Chabet. He also collaborates with artists in tracing, interpreting, and writing on the intersections of archival engagement and artistic intervention. He has programmed films for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and has served as editor for NANG (“Archival Imaginaries,” 2021) and Plaridel ("Philippine Cinema and the Archives,” 2018). He is currently working on his book, Reconfiguring the Empire of Memory: Studying the Entanglements of Filipino Archival Practices, Artistic Interventions, and Data Work.