AVA CCL Talk Series - Memory as medium
How do artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is the relationship of images and objects to the archive? To what purpose do these artworks "recall"? And for whom do they remember? The artist will present his works while discussing what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering, disremembering and forgetting in both personal and cultural memory.
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How do artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is the relationship of images and objects to the archive? To what purpose do these artworks "recall"? And for whom do they remember? The artist will present his works while discussing what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering, disremembering and forgetting in both personal and cultural memory.
Jon Cuyson
Jon Cuyson is an artist, filmmaker and educator based in Manila. In 2010, he received his MFA from Columbia University in New York. His interdsiciplinary practice investigates and interrogates the intersections of labor, movement, identity, and postcolonial entanglements. He has exhibited his works locally and internationally including the Bronx Museum and Sculpture Center in New York, Brunei Museum in London, Times Museum in Guangdong and the Metropolitan Museum in Manila. In addition, Jon Cuyson has exhibited his experiemental films in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He currently serves as Dean of the School of Design and the Arts at iACADEMY in the Philippines.
Shin Gyung Jin