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Visual Pollution

tutoK 2talk:creative convergence
Sambalikhaan, Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music (AILM)
275 E. Rodriguez Avenue, Quezon City
February 28 and 29, 2008, 10:00AM to 4:00PM


Visual Pollution is all about focusing our own visual perception. This idea supports the concept of the video installation… wanting the audience to feel suffocated by simultaneously  playing various films and videos by local video and filmmaking practitioners, within one space.  This is reflective of the various ideas and opinions we are bombarded with on a daily basis.  Moreover, this connotes the struggle within one’s self to understand the diversity of the world we move in. In order to understand and process the assortment of thoughts, we must be able to prioritize and focus on what is deemed important to us as individuals.  This concept also promotes the collaboration of dialogues between the artists/filmmakers who are involved in this project.


visual pollution
an infestation of (de)synthesized video installations

the artists:
Anino Shadow Play Collective
Artist Arrest Movement
Elvert de la Cruz Bañares
Sigfried Barros-Sanchez
Ramon Bautista
Herbert Commendador
Khavn Dela Cruz
Ivan Despi
Tad Ermitaño
Ging Flores
Lea Lim
Treb Monteras II
Jet Pascua
RA Rivera
Jemina Rodriguez
Jun Sabayton
Rights
Southern Tagalog Exposure
Syke Dolero

Curated by J.Pacena II


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Visual system is part of the nervous system which allows organisms to see. It interprets the information from visible light to build a representation of the world surrounding the body. The visual system has the complex task of (re)constructing a three dimensional world from a two dimensional projection of that world. The psychological manifestation of visual information is known as visual perception.

Pollution is the introduction of pollutants (whether chemical substances, or energy such as noise, heat, or light) into the environment to such a point that its effects become harmful to human health, other living organisms, or the environment.

“Visual pollution is a man walking outside the realms of his own home looking up, down, then up again…at buildings, billboards, celebrities endorsing a new super product and the sky, colored dark gray, sometimes red and violet or violent greenish looking buses along the Ortigas Avenue. It is the man wearing his ragged clothes then her skinny pants… walking along the intersection of Cubao, meeting once or maybe two hundred times before and not even glimpse nor a smile on their faces. It is the weird looking overpass wherein you can almost bump your head if you are 5’10" tall to the support system of the MRT. Or it is the insides of your lovely home where everything was bought out of necessity… you can’t hardly see through you.”

Visual pollution is walking blindly… in a simulated world, created by our own visual perception, that this is the better Philippines. Going somewhere familiar, even a minute or two, or worst, going someplace where the only way of communicating to your loved one is trough a cellular phone or the World Wide Web.”

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