The document summarizes the Project Bakawan Arts Festival Ethos Bathos Pathos Exhibit happening from February 12 to March 14, 2015 at the UP Vargas Museum. It features various artists and autonomous groups and will include workshops, discussions, and performances on topics like open space technology, drum circles, writing, music, sustainability, ecology and economics, disaster response, and peer exchanges. The opening reception on February 12 will provide overviews of the participating groups and dream of future collaborations.
4. Ethos Bathos Pathos
Featuring photographer Tommy Hafalla, sculptor
Junyee, composer Jonas Baes and autonomous
groups: Onsite Infoshop, Etnikobandido,
Marindukanon Studies Center at Info Shop
Marinduque, overXout and Civ Lab. Presented by
Project Bakawan and Planting Rice with the support
of The Japan Foundation, Manila.
5. Marindukanon Studies Center
x Info Shop Marinduque
Creating commons between public (state-funded)
and private (sponsored) research about Philippine
culture, consciousness and society
Drawing traversal lines between Marinduque,
MIMAROPA, the Philippines, SE Asia, Asia Pacific
and the whole planet
Curates and archives user-generated content about
translocality and xenophilia through multi-platform
means like offline/online radio and swarm
bibliotheque
6. Feb. 18, 2015/
Wednesday
Open Space Technology w/ PeaceChurch
Philippines
Provide alternative visioning
Introduce survival framework through peace and
reconciliation
1~5pm (4 hours)
Workable action plan for the succeeding activities to
be generated from the workshop
7. Feb. 26/ Thursday
Drum Circle/ open jam
w/ kaibuturan x bata
create tools for exchange and sharing
introduce drumming culture
1~4pm (3 hours)
connect sustainability issues and drumming
practices
8. March 4, 2015/
Wednesday
Sulat kamay collective performance and skills
sharing
writing as a tool for ecology x economics
introduce autonomous publishing
9~12pm (3 hrs)
Produce germinal ideas about relations of
economics and the environment
9. March 6/ Friday
Kontra Gapi music workshop
establish sound and vernacular expression
introduce music and identity formation
9~12pm (3 hrs)
Create sounds about resistance
10. March 10/ Tuesday
Pag-iral discussion about survival
provide a platform for local studies and knowledge
production
talk about survival of gov’t and privately fundeded
projects
9~12pm (overview) 1~4pm (round table discussion)
Provide content about survival in the urban and
rural areas in the Philippines and asia pacific
11. March 11/ Wednesday
Likas-kaya skills-sharing about sustainable
practices
reflect on local x indigenous practices on
sustainability
introduce autonomous groups and activities in Bicol,
Negros and Davao
9~12pm (overview) 1~4pm (workshop)
Create content about sustainable practices in the
local contexts of autonomous spaces and info
shops
12. March 12, Thursday
OIKOS discussion on ecology and economics
Report back on Humanitarian Technologies project
Report back on Spaces in Transition?
9~12pm (overview) 1~4pm (open forum)
Produce content about the relationship between the
environment, disaster and spaces
13. March 13/ Friday
DANUM discussion peer to peer exchange x
peripheral centers
Introduce contemporary Philippine studies in
relation to asia pacific, south east asia and
globalization
9~12pm
Plot future projects like conferences, for a,
colloquia, etc
14. Feb 12/opening
reception
Discussion on autonomous groups w/ onsite, EB
info shop, Civ:Lab, ISM x MSC
Introduce and provide overview of activities
Use open space to articulate “where have we been?
How to dream the future?”
6pm onwards
Profiles and activity design from each participant
15. Feb 14/ Saturday
Creative Resistance discussion
specify possible future activities
provide details about SKA kontra SONA, No APEC,
anti election campaign etc
1~5pm
Actions plans and synthesis