Araw na nakapitapita (That day most eagerly awaited), 2020, is a work by work Filipino artist Mark Salvatus, selected and introduced by curator Tessa Maria Guazon, for the exhibition Notes for Tomorrow. The work will be on view at Contemporary Calgary in the third of three screening cycles that reflects on the precarity of the human condition, and explores how artists operate in a liminal space and time, inspired by the unknown.
Araw na nakapitapita (That day most eagerly awaited) explores the home as a thriving ecology. Through interwoven texts and use of at home materials, Salvatus invites you to create and share your own artwork. Follow the instructions below and send us your creations by tagging us on Instagram.
Photo by Mark Salvatus.
INSTRUCTIONS
Download the Cut-Out Letter Template in English or Tagalog.
Cut out the text, arrange and pin it on your curtains at home using push pins.
Please take a picture of the curtain, post on social media and share #thatdaymosteagerlyawaited @contemporarycalgary @curatorsintl.
About the Artist
Mark Salvatus (b. 1980). I studied Advertising at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila and started as an artist as a street artist. Since 2006, I call my overall artistic project as “Salvage Projects” working across various disciplines and media. Basing it on the word ‘salvage’ or to save or rescue which is also the meaning of my surname, I try to build direct and indirect engagements using objects, photography, archives, videos, installations, participatory projects, and platform organizing that present different outcomes of energies and experiences. My preoccupations are based on constant movements and travels - coming from the countryside to the city and elsewhere, addressing and building new imaginations of the contemporary land –urban and rural, the glocal migrant and the vernacular historiographies. I am interested in communication and miscommunication as a form and as a structure and not as a process. A form that is unstable, vulnerable and precarious as a fluid form and not fixed or established. A practice that deals a lot with collecting, repetition and series based on my lived experiences and its relationship to the world.
About the Curator
Tessa Maria Guazon is a curator and educator based in Manila. She developed the proposal for the Southeast Asia Neighbourhood Network during the ICI workshop in Manila. This is a research project with women artists Alma Quinto and Nathalie Dagmang with pedagogy as a central goal. She is part of the interlocutor program for the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial organized by the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia. She is the coordinator for Exhibitions and Curatorial Analysis for the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. Her current project for the network considers curation and curating as collectivist practices. In 2019, she launched Curating in Local Contexts workshops with colleagues Louise Salas and Mayumi Hirano. The workshops aim to understand how curation is practiced in the Philippines, within specific conditions of possibilities and constraints.