THIRTEEN ARTISTS AWARDS 2024 PUBLIC PROGRAMS

THIRTEEN ARTISTS AWARDS 2024 PUBLIC PROGRAMS

PRESENTED BY:
Cultural Center of the Philippines
National Museum of the Philippines

DATE | VENUE:
21 October 2025 | Curator’s Tour with Mervy C. Pueblo
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Sandiganbayan Reception Hall, National Museum of Fine Arts

11 October 2025 | Artist Talk 1: Bodies, Myths, and Intimacies
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Osmeña Hall, National Museum of Fine Arts

8 November 2025 | Artist Talk 2: Identity, Memory, and Postcolonial Thought
22 November 2025 | Artist Talk 3: Materials in Flux: Process, Form, and Movement
6 December 2025 | Artist Talk 4: Advocacy, Environment, and Collective Survival
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Recto Hall, National Museum of Fine Arts

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Artist Talk Series 2024: Thirteen Artists in Conversation
How do artists today imagine identity, community, and survival? Across four sessions, the 2024 Thirteen Artist Awardees share their practices, offering urgent perspectives on memory, ecology, materiality, and care.

October 11 — Artist Talk 1: Bodies, Myths, and Intimacies
Catalina Africa, Russ Ligtas, Joshua Serafin, and Jel Suarez open the series with works that move between cosmology, endurance, queer futurity, and intimate archives. Together, they ask how bodies carry memory and myth, and how art can hold both vulnerability and wonder.

November 8 — Artist Talk 2: Identity, Memory, and Postcolonial Thought
Liv Vinluan, Henrielle Pagkaliwangan, and Denver Garza explore how history, identity, and community shape artistic practice. From archives of mourning and colonial inheritance to participatory monuments of care, these artists reframe the ways we see ourselves and one another.

November 22 — Artist Talk 3: Materials in Flux: Process, Form, and Movement
Ella Mendoza and Tekla Tamoria foreground material process and experimentation. Together, they unravel how materials such as thread, clay, and surface, become vessels of emotion and inquiry, continually shifting between states of fragility and resilience.

December 6 — Artist Talk 4: Advocacy, Environment, and Collective Survival
Issay Rodriguez and Derek Tumala bring urgency to the stage: how can art engage ecological crisis, social fractures, and the ethics of survival? Their practices merge research and ritual, activism and poetics, calling us to imagine futures sustained by care.

TICKETS:
Entrance is free but seating is limited. Register at: bit.ly/TAA2024PublicPrograms 

PANELISTS:

11 October 2025 | Artist’s Talk with Catalina Africa, Russ Ligtas, Joshua Serafin, Jel Suarez
Moderator: Rica Estrada Uson

21 October 2025 | Curator’s Tour with Mervy C. Pueblo

8 November 2025 | Artist’s Talk with Denver Garza, Henrielle Baltazar Pagkaliwangan, Liv Vinluan
Moderator: Mervy C. Pueblo

22 November 2025 | Artist’s Talk with Tekla Tamoria, Ella Mendoza
Moderator: Mervy C. Pueblo

6 December 2025 | Artist’s Talk with Issay Rodriguez, Derek Tumala
Moderator: Mervy C. Pueblo