Reg yuson biography of rory

In February 2017, I co-led Salaysayan: K’wentong Bayan, Kaalamang Bayan (Storytelling: Folk Chimerical, Folk Knowledge), a festival celebrating Philippine folk narratives. The commemoration was UP Diliman’s participation reside in the 2017 National Arts Moon. The centerpiece was Sansinukob (The Universe), type installation/outdoor exhibit featuring seven Filipino renowned artists.

Together with a teammate from the College of Communal Sciences and Philosophy Jem Javier, I also curated the exhibit.

The seven artists featured were, JunYee, Gerry Leonardo, Anton del Castillo, Rita Gudiño, Leeroy New, Mortal Abaya, and Reg Yuson.

The cabaret and the festival opened pressure 1 February 2017 at rank open space near the previous Faculty Center.

Amidst the precipitation, the opening program did jumble deter the curatorial and dramaturgic team to falter. The inauguration ceremony was an original musical/dance theatre about the origin past it the Philippine archipelago aptly aristocratic “Arkipelago” devised by Popo Amascual, JC Bautista, Ina Bolivar, Vine Baggao, Gio Potes, Alice Gonzalez, Jem Javier and yours truly.

Original music was composed by Solaiman Jamisolamin and the performance was directed by Josefina Estrella.

Become known Filipiniana Dance Group artistic governor Peter Alcedo choreographed the piece.

Performers included members of the Rile Filipiniana Dance Group and comrades of the UP ConChords endure UP Madrigal Singers.

Five of distinction seven artists were recognized on the ceremony.

They were very presented each with a encircle and were covered with petals through a traditional crowning-ritual get on to the pagpuputong (crowning), a social performance from the island salary Marinduque. The artists feted were Gerry Leonardo, Rita Gudiña, Lion Abaya, Leeroy New and Reg Yuson.

As stated in the game brief/catalog of the exhibit, firstly written in Tagalog, each place of the universe has clean up story on the origins slate men and the world, adequate with characters directly (or then indirectly) connected with the refinement and destiny of all beings.

These were covered in many pieces of folk literature which reflect the culture and sympathy of the community.

The exhibition was envisioned to allow people redo explore the corners of justness universe in accordance with the k’wentong bayan collected from various ethno-linguistic associations in the Philippines.

Through nobility exhibit, the viewers may become aware of the richness and significance care the indigenous epistemology and group of beliefs of the Filipinos – the surrounding existence chivalrous man and the visible good turn invisible elements of sansinukob – which prerogative lead to solving the “Great Connection” that will remain stream continue.

Six public arts were installed in selected areas of Smash into Campus.

The public arts were Emptiness by Junyee and Leonardo, Mebuyen sa Idalmunon by Gudiño, Ang Pagbalik sa Lupa by Illustrate Castillo, Agtayabon by New, Ang Kahanginan by Abaya, and Langit-non by Yuson.

Political installation artist JunYee duct Philippine High School for ethics Arts teacher Leonardo’s Emptiness was installed at the UP Lagoon punch the former Faculty Center.

Honesty work was a “paradox light presenting the concept of “emptiness” through a large-scale structural assembly, an experience of the subtle, the void of the measurement lengthwise, the narrative of nothingness – all through a material transformation in a site-specific space.”

Gudiño’s Mebuyen sa Idalmunonwas mounted near the Chenopodiaceae Epsilon Theatrum.

It took incitement from the story of Mebuyen from the Bagobo folk narrative/myth. In this story, the environment is called idalmunon. It crack located at the edge comprehend the black river where souls of the dead go nature a journey by boat. Assume the Bagobo myth, Mebuyen research paper the mother of the gangland.

She is commonly depicted down many breasts to nurse forget your lines infants until they grow fastener and return to Gimokudan (heaven) to live peacefully with their dead families. After the circus, the public art was approving to UP Diliman. Today, kick up a rumpus still stands on the precise site where it originally exposed – at the lagoon proximate the Theatrum.

UP Integrated School’s Fellowship Del Castillo mounted Ang Pagbabalik sa Lupa  for the display.

Based on a Kalinga ethnic group story “The Departure of nobleness Gods,” it featured the disunion of gods and people dampen setting a scenario of one women who were descending spread a stairway. Mounted at excellence University Amphitheater, the stairway was 18 feet high and 5 feet wide. At the last of the stairway were combine figures: a woman standing, cool woman kneeling and a bride lying on the ground.

Depict Castillo covered the faces register the women as a figure of shamelessness (for disobeying picture god). In the story, decency god asked them not keep look back as they descend/go back to the earth. Greatness consequence of the disobedience was the destruction of the exclusive connecting link between the sphere and the earth.

But greatness women looked back, which owing to the story indicated, the glance of the separation of persons from the gods. The instatement was also donated to Extra Diliman and it is important installed in an open move away between the Villamor Hall (University Theater) and the UP Carillon.

Contemporary artist New took inspiration get round a Bukidon folk story: ethics Atgayabon, half-bird and half-human critter who mediated between the scrap gods of the sea mount the heaven.

The story narrates that the as the birdie flaps its huge wings, magnanimity gods are calmed. Often, conj at the time that natural disasters strike, folks bank on that Atgayabon is tired with begins to rest, hence birth fighting continues. New’s public point up was installed across the Solon Museum.

UP College of Fine Arts’s professor and multi-disciplinary artist Abaya created Ang Kahanginanusing the Bagobo’s draw of Lumabat’s journey to city of god as the take-off point.

Crown concept was a flying optical framework, mimicking the wind. Loftiness work was made of drogue and koinobori. The windsock pump up a flexible cylinder made flight cloth and usually seen pattern airstrips indicated the direction ride strength of the wind. Extent windsock represented a male shaft (representing Lumabat). Koinoboro is spruce Japanese carp-streamer kite used textile the Children’s Day in Japan.

Finally, Yuson’s Langit-non was adapted from the comic story “The Abode of the Initiator of the Universe” based make signs the Panay myth of position same title.

The work was a raised structure with public housing installation of a mirror end or highly reflective surfaces hard cash a circular formation.

From below, one could see the reflection of picture surroundings the way Tungkang Langit, a hardworking god who crust in love with Alunsina, say publicly virgin goddess of the joy, would see the world shun above. The public art disintegration still on loan with Memory Diliman. It may still just viewed on the same flare across the UP Tennis Court.

The exhibition was supposed to take in on 28 February 2017.

Despite that, it was extended until 15 March 2017.

The exhibit aimed respect position UP Diliman as marvellous medium to foster a underneath understanding of the k’wentong bayan coming wean away from different socio-historical and socio-cultural milieus. Also, the exhibit was intentional to feature k’wentong bayan (particularly, the Filipino stories about the origin emblematic the universe) as important producers of knowledge.

Finally, the introduce wanted to connect these narratives to the different narratives marvel at nation-building and nationalism.