[Oct. 15 – 26] IN SITU: PERFORMANCE AS EXHIBITION – The Philippine Edition

PRESENTED BY:

Cultural Center of the Philippines and  Belarmino&Partners, supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation and Danish Arts Foundation

DATE/ VENUE:

October 15 – 26, 2024

Various Venues: Rajah Sulayman Park to CCP Liwasang Kalikhasan via Roxas Boulevard | CCP Front Lawn | CCP ASEAN Park | I Manila Cathedral and Gen. Luna Street, Intramuros, Manila | Metropolitan Theater | National Arts Center, Mount Makiling, Los Baños, Laguna| La Union Beachfront

 DESCRIPTION:

InSitu, Performance as Exhibition, The Philippine Edition reimagines the concept of performance as an exhibition, unfolding in a mountain, seaside, and urban spaces. Curated by Vanini Belarmino, the program features eight works by Danish visual and performance artists Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Molly Haslund, Sophie Dupont, and Filip Vest, along with choreographer Kai Merke. These artists will collaborate with Filipino choreographers, performers, and multidisciplinary artists, including Christine Crame, Daloy Dance Company, Ea Torrado, Jeremy Mayores, Kyle Confesor, and Sasa Cabalquinto.

TICKET INFORMATION:

FREE & open to the public

 

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES:

 “Marking Breath” – Sophie Dupont

Tuesday | October 15, 2024 | Sunrise to Sunset

Pugad Adarna Executive House, National Arts Center, Mount Makiling, Los Baños, Laguna

 

 

 

 

 

“Flower Drop” – Molly Haslund with Ea Torrado

Wednesday | October 16, 2024 | 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Manila Cathedral and Gen. Luna Street,  Intramuros, Manila

 

 

 

 

 

“Mobile Mirrors” – Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen with Daloy Dance Company

 

Wednesday | October 16, 2024 | 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Rajah Sulaiman Park and CCP Liwasang Kalikasan

 

 

 

 

 

“Breathing Beings” – Sophie Dupont with Christine Crame

 

Thursday | October 17, 2024 | 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

CCP ASEAN Park

 

 

 

 

 

“Magic” –  Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

 

Thursday | October 17, 2024 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM

CCP Front Lawn

 

 

 

 “Bunk” – Filip Vest, with Jeremy Mayores, Kyle Confesor, and Sasa Cabalquinto (Choreography: Filip Vest and Kai Merke)

 

Friday | October 18, 2024 | 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Manila Metropolitan Theater, PPO Rehearsal Hall

 

 

 

 “Mis United” –  Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

 

Friday | October, 18, 2024 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Manila Metropolitan Theater Lobby

 

 

 

 

 

“Infinite” – Molly Haslund, with Ea Torrado and the Community of La Union

 

Saturday | October 26, 2024 | 6:00 AM – 8:00 AM

La Union Beachfront

 

 

 

About the Artists

Ea Torrado (PH) is an award-winning choreographer and dance artist.  She is the founder and Artistic Director of Daloy Dance Company, a dance theater group that advances, produces and tours her creations and workshops. Her creations manifest in choreographies, film, installation, site-specific work, and improvisational performance. Ea’s pieces reflect body politics, social issues, cultural identity, Filipina feminism and spirituality. A recipient of the Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship, Ea has performed and toured extensively across Asia and the United States of America.  She is currently based in La Union.

Christine Crame (PH) is a choreographer, dancer and educator.  She serves as the Artistic Director of Seven Contemporary Dance Company, WifiBody, CCP Choreographers’ Series and Neo Filipino. She was also the Chairperson of the School of Design and Arts Academic Dance Program from 2010-2019 at the De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB), where she currently serves as a faculty member. Trained as a classical ballet dancer, Crame was a soloist at Ballet Philippines from 1994 to 2005 and has performed and toured across Asia,  Australia, Europe and the U.S.   She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts,  majoring in Dance from DLS-CSB and an MA in Educational Management from the Philippine Women’s University.

Daloy Dance Company (PH) is an innovative and thought-provoking contemporary dance group based in the Philippines, showcasing the works of multi-disciplinary Filipina artist Ea Torrado.  Established in 2014,  Daloy Dance Company is known for its collaborative spirit working with dancers, actors, and artists from diverse backgrounds.  Through its unique approach of blending various movement techniques, storytelling, and interdisciplinary collaborations in contemporary dance, Daloy continues to provoke thought and conversation with its immediate community and audiences.   Within a decade as an independent company, it has produced 10 full-length works and a dance film series presented across the Philippines and abroad.  The works reflect current issues addressing socio-political, environmental, and other topics pertinent to the Filipino experience. The company prides itself in crafting its movement dialectic, the Daloy Movement, an embodied and evolving research practice accessible to all.

Filip Vest (DK) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores queer love, loneliness, and desire in the 21st century through performances, installations, films, and texts. Performing identities and relationships are central to their practice. Vest employs rehearsal methods from theater to examine the tension between script and body. Trained in mime from a young age and an avid reader, Vest draws from a wide range of practices to articulate a distinct artistic language. With an MFA from Malmö Art Academy, their work weaves together a vast network of elements that influence each other: climate change and crumbling relationships, role play, doomsday karaoke, re-enacted kisses, a bird falling in love with a statue, and a frog having a breakdown in the middle of a striptease. Vest’s work has been exhibited at Arken, Copenhagen Contemporary, Den Frie, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Møstings, MMCA/National Museum of Modern Art Korea, SMK National Gallery Denmark, Nikolaj Kunsthal, and Tallinn Kunsthal.

Kai Merke (DK/DE) is a dancer, choreographer, dramaturg, and somatic voice coach, educated at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT). After relocating to Copenhagen in 2020, Merke co-founded Dance Cooperative, a studio with an intersectional approach, alongside fifteen other performing artists. Their work explores human connections with the natural world, focusing on collaborations with plants that inspire performances and workshops across Europe. Merke’s degree in Natural and Cultural Heritage Management further informs their expertise in promoting engagement with the living environment. In addition to choreography, they curate, facilitate, and organize events and workshops. Merke will be choreographing Filip Vest’s Bunk 2024 in the Philippines.

Kyle Confesor (PH) is a performer and director for various art spaces in the Philippines. He earned his degree in theater arts, majoring in performance from De La Salle University College of St. Benilde. He is also a theater educator at Colegio de San Juan de Letran. Currently, he’s a performer for Infinite Cantina’s Umbilical, the dramaturg for Langgam Performance Troupe’s Infinitely, a dancer for Museum of Contemporary Arts: Heidi Bucher’s Body Shells, and a director and writer for Macbeth On Slippers.

Lillibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (DK/PH) is an internationally acclaimed performance and visual artist exploring themes of identity, culture, religion, gender, and social relations. Drawing on her Filipino and Danish heritage, she crafts narratives that blend personal and cultural insights, often incorporating text, music, costumes, and stringent scenography. With a critical yet humorous approach, Cuenca Rasmussen examines issues like ethnicity and affiliation, creating a unique space in her art that transcends traditional boundaries. A professor of time-based and performance art at the University of Bergen’s Art Academy in Norway, she has performed and exhibited globally, including at prestigious institutions like Akademie der Künste, Ateneo Art Gallery, AROS Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Copenhagen Contemporary, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, KIASMA Art Museum, Tate Modern, National Gallery Denmark, and National Gallery Singapore. Her work has earned her numerous accolades, including the Ecksberg Medal (2008), Thorvaldsens Medal of Honor (2023), New Carlsberg Foundations Art Price (2023), Anne Marie Telmanyi and Carl -Nielsens Foundation Award (2023).

Molly Haslund (DK) is an artist whose work intervenes with various public spaces and objects, both mundane and historical. She straddles performative and sculptural modes, allowing for a range of performances– from installations to musical and group performances. Ultimately, Haslund uses shifting strategies to explore the ways individuals, social hierarchies, and norms are embedded in and negotiated through gestures, cultural rituals, and the configurations around people. She has participated in various residencies, such as the ISCP  International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, Absolute Art Space in Tainan, Taiwan, and Kyoto Art Center in Japan. Her works are in the collections of the SMK National Gallery of Denmark, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark, and Wanås Konst Sculpture Park, Sweden. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Haslund is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Glasgow School of Art. She was conferred the Franciska Clausen Medal (2024) for her work “Infinite”,  an award given to a single work of outstanding artistic quality within the liberal or fine arts.

Jeremy Mayores (PH) acts and dances in theatre, television & film. As a Kapampangan performing artist, he graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Manila with a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts majoring in Theatre Arts, with specialization in Acting and Performance. Recently, he won the 14th Gawad Buhay Awards for Best Ensemble Performance in a Play for Laro (2023) by Barefoot Theatre Collaborative.

Sasa Cabalquinto (PH) is a dance artist who works in the tradition of Butoh dance, which she studied in Japan. She founded Kapwa–Movement, an independent platform that sought to reintroduce Butoh in the Philippines while integrating it with ritualistic practices and indigenous wisdom and contexts. Cabalquinto was granted the Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship for 2022-2023 in Japan and the USA,  Para Site NoExit Grant for Unpaid Artistic Labour in the Philippines, and the Asia Arts and Culture Grant of Japan Foundation Manila for her work Kapwa— Movement Project. A prize-winning choreographer, Cabalquinto has participated in international dance platforms such as the Asia Butoh Forum and the Vienna Butoh Arts Festival. She received academic training in theater at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Sophie Dupont (DK) is a visual artist who examines pictorial questions concerning figure and ground, abstraction and figuration, fluidity and stagnation using her body as the primary artistic research and existentialist tool. Her practice makes use of diverse media such as performance, photography, sculpture, and painting grounded in 20th-century performance and avant-garde tradition. As she examines the conditions of the human being, through simple acts of breathing and sleeping, Dupont performs physically and mentally demanding pieces showing interconnection in the world. Dupont received a BFA and an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has studied Contemporary Dance at the London Contemporary Dance School (The Place). Her works are in the collection of The National Gallery of Denmark, The New Carlsberg Foundation, and the Danish Arts Foundation. She has performed and exhibited in Bosnia, Costa Rica, China, France, Finland,  Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

 

ABOUT THE CURATOR AND ORGANIZER

Vanini Belarmino (PH/SG) is an independent curator, producer, and writer. She is the Managing Director of Belarmino&Partners, a company set up in Berlin in 2008 and Singapore in 2011, to realize interdisciplinary collaborations. Her curatorial interest focuses on the productive potential of encounters by identifying and facilitating collaborations between artists across genres. Over her three-decade career, Vanini has led initiatives in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, holding key positions at the Asia-Europe Foundation, Ballet Philippines, and National Gallery Singapore.  During her tenure as Assistant Director  (Programmes) for the National Gallery Singapore, she curated three editions of the Gallery Children’s Biennale (2017, 2019, 2021), the Children’s Festival: Small Big Dreamers (2018), focused on the reinterpretation of works by Singaporean artist Lee Wen (2018).  She also organized special commissions with artists such as David Medalla, Ho Tzu Nyen, Lee Mingwei, Mark Justiniani, Pinaree Sanpitak, and Sissel Tolaas.  She was the co-curator for Afterlude-Prelude, Responses to Nam June Paik (2021), a special program co-organised with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA).  She has received multiple fellowships, including the Asian Cultural Council New York Fellowship (2014) and the Global Fellowship from the International Society for Performing Arts (2009, 2011).

 

Organizer
Belarmino&Partners is an international art consultancy that seeks to cultivate exchange that encourages artists to go beyond their comfort zone. Founded by curator and producer Vanini Belarmino in Berlin in 2008 and in Singapore in 2011, the consultancy pursues collaborations with artists, collectives, artist-run spaces, galleries, museums and foundations in realizing exhibitions, festivals, public programmes, conversations and artistic interventions.

Supporters

The New Carlsberg Foundation was established in 1902 by brewer Carl Jacobsen and is funded mainly by dividends from shares in Carlsberg A/S. Today, the Foundation continues the realize Jacobsen’s vision of promoting art in society and making it available to the widest possible audience.

The Danish Arts Foundation is Denmark’s largest arts foundation that promotes Danish art internationally.  It supports over 6,000 artists and projects annually through 60+ funding programs. Covering visual arts, film, literature, music, performing arts, architecture, and more, the Foundation awards grants via 16 expert committees. It fosters creative dialogue and invites everyone to engage in the arts.

Programme Partner

Alfredor F. Tadiar Library

Contributors

Curma | Daloy Dance Company | DOERS | Emerging Islands | Hiraya Collective | Kurrent | Normi’s | Red Cross | Union Christian College (UCC)