#karnabal

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#karnabal #köln (at Cologne, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bucjb_Elt_x/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rtblbephweq9

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Salingpusa. #karnabal (at Pinto Art Museum)

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With Pinto's pièce de resistánce by Salingpusa artists #karnabal #salingpusa (at Pinto Art Museum)

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Teach Yourself Macho Dance Manual

The work invites a person to teach macho dancing based on his/her understanding of the manual.

ARTIST PROFILE

Eisa Jocson

Eisa Jocson is a contemporary choreographer and dancer from the Philippines. From pole to macho dancing, Eisa investigates the labour and representations of the dancing body in the service industry, and exposes gender formation, seduction politics, and Filipino social mobility. Her next work will uncover the world of ‘Japayuki’ – the foreign entertainers hired from the Philippines to perform for the pleasure of ‘salary-men’ in clubs throughout Japan.

* Photos, poster, details, and artist profile from Karnabal Festival 2015 Facebook page and website

[watari-mono-blog]

mouth.mumu

INNER VOICES FORBIDDEN SPEECHES GHOSTS OF THE MOUTH Tell me what it is that you can’t say out loud. If you’ll let me, I will give it a voice.

ARTIST PROFILE

Russ Ligtas

Russ is a visual artist exploring alternative possibilities in performance. A transplant from Cebu, he has continued his intermedia art practice in Manila since 2013. During performances, Russ oftentimes deploys his various alter egos—aspects of his psyche with specialized roles to confront and process specific realities. He situates his alte egos in various conditions, allowing them to exist and evolve as their own distinct personalities, while simultaneously mapping out their histories, and when elucidated, their narratives are transcribed into performances that communicate their origins, preoccupations, and ultimately their fates. At present, Russ contains seven alter egos, however he also performs as personages other than these that have yet to be named or identified.

* Photo, posters, details, and artist profile from Karnabal Festival 2015 Facebook page and website

[watari-mono-blog]

This Too Shall Past

A contemplation on the concept of ephemerality experienced through framed sounds in a performance structure.

ARTIST PROFILE

Teresa Barrozo

Teresa is a Filipino composer and sound artist with a wide range of work for film, theater and dance. Her compositions have been featured in the Asian Composers League Festivals in Japan and Thailand, and in the Asia-Pacific Weeks in Germany. Her film music works have been part of major international film festivals in Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Locarno and Berlin, to name a few. Barrozo recently returned from a fellowship in the U.S. from the Asian Cultural Council, focusing on composition, sound design, sound art, and contemporary sonic practices in deep listening, neuromusic, acoustic ecology, field recording, and electronic and computer music.

* Photo, poster, details, and artist profile from Karnabal Festival 2015 Facebook page and website

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Karnabal Festival 2015 is a pioneering contemporary and alternative creative laboratory for performance and social innovations in the Philippines.

Karnabal Festival 2015 will be a two-week multi-site festival in Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, engaging more than 200 artists and around 3,000 audiences through different platforms for performances and exhibitions, training, dialogue and idea-presentations. Since September 2014, a series of workshops, discussions, and brainstorming gatherings among invited artists and speakers have been held in preparation for the Festival. KARNABAL 2015 will be from May 6 to 17.

* Posters and details from Karnabal Festival 2015 Facebook page and website

[soundslikeascam]

KARNABAL: A DEF. DEFYING FESTIVAL: Works Beyond Definitions

"Def.” stands for “definition”, best explaining the mix of programmed performances as transgressing norms and going beyond definitions of art and what it should be. 

Karnabal aims to highlight works on the edge, in between the lines, dynamic, bold, liminal, death- and depth-defying; and to explore new modes of production and performance-making. It serves as a shared avenue for companies and solo artists to freely test new works and/or develop existing ones, as well as share and generate new audiences for the Philippine performance scene.

Karnabal is set to take flight on November 17 (Sun), 20-24 (Wed-Sun) within Intramuros. Multiple venues will be used to simultaneously house performances, and functions, indoors and outdoors, all throughout the duration of the festival. Events fall under three different types of platforms:

• The Main Performance Platform, which features the original works of invited independent companies and solo artists, programmed throughout the duration of the festival. As of now, participants include the Sipat Lawin Ensemble, Kolab Co., Transitopia – Contemporary Dance Commune, Shaharazade Theater Company, Eisa Jocson, Ea Torrado and Daniel Darwin.

• The “Tsubibo” Open Platform, which features programmed performances from individuals and companies from different fields who want to test their works. This platform is offered on the last two days of the festival, November 23 and 24.

• Gatherings involves all the festival’s community offerings – workshops, talks, forums, panel discussions, get-together functions curated by the festival team engaging artists from different media.

For more information, contact [email protected] or Mobile: [phone].