Concept Paper for Swarm Bibliotheque Bakawan Arts Festival Ethos.Bathos. Pathos Project February 12 to March 14, 2015 UP Vargas Museum

1. Ethos. Bathos. Pathos
Project Bakawan Arts Festival
February 12 – March 14, 2015
UP Vargas Museum

2. The Research (Software/
Programming)
| 1. Documentation
| 2. Swarm Bibliotheque (Library)
| 3. Workshop/Activities:
| -°©‐ Over/Out
| -°©‐ Onsite Infoshop
| -°©‐ Etnikobandido
| -°©‐ Marindukanon
| -°©‐ CivLab

3. The Setup (Hardware)
| 1. D.I.Y. Solar Power
| 2. Wi-‐Fi/Radio
| 3. Space Design
| -°©‐ Lounge
| -°©‐ Library
| -°©‐ Radio Station
| -°©‐ Workshop

4. 2 components
| The Research (Software)
| The Setup (Hardware).
| Each component includes sub-components
crucial to the whole composition of the
installation piece.
| This is a functional installation piece that is
autopoeitic (self‐life) once the groundwork
is properly laid.

5. Non Representational
| Moreover, the aim of the installation piece is
not to make a representation of our current
ecological condition (representational art)
or propaganda by ecologically aware
individual/groups.
| This is art but not art at the same time
because its reference is beyond the
boundaries of Art History while it anchors on
the expanded notion of art introduced by
Joseph Beuys, i.e., Social Sculpture.

6. Conviviality, Relational
| However, what matters in this installation
piece is the replication of elements that help
establish bond between human organisms
in together making sense of the world.
| Because the practical way to survive in
times of disaster, especially ecological
disaster, is to take care of each other,
| Rebecca Solnit “A Paradise Built in Hell: The
Extraordinary Communities that Arise in
Disaster (Viking, 2009)”.

7. Research
(Software/Program)
This component is responsible in curating,
organizing, programming, conceiving, and
documenting the entire life processes of the
installation piece. This is the major groundwork and
it has four categorical research goal to achieve
these are Survival, Sustainability, Ecology, and
Resistance.
At least two to three people (or more) will initiate
and lay the groundwork of this component to
enable the auto‐life system of the installation piece.
Thus, the initiator will dissipate once the system
started to function.

8. Research
(Software/Program)
| However, they will transform into a
documenter to help collect and gather
pedagogical materials (tools) produced
during the entire life activity of the
installation piece.
| As groundwork this component has three
sub-components namely: Documentation,
Swarm Bibliotheque (Library), and Workshop.

9. Documentation
| Documentation is responsible in gathering and
collecting pedagogical materials (tools)
produced during the entire life activity of the
installation piece.
| It harvests the fruits, whether it is good or bad, for
everyone to evaluate and use in their own ways
of dealing with ecological crisis in their everyday
life.
| Recorded audio materials of programmed
workshops and talks will be played back for low
power radiobroadcast and/or keeping for
archiving for future use.

10. Swarm
Bibliotheque
| Swarm Bibliotheque is
a tactical library
composed of
information materials
provided and
temporarily loaned
by five major
participants (Over/
Out, Onsite Infoshop,
Etniko Bandido,
Marindukanon, and
CivLab) of the
installation piece.

11. Swarm
Bibliotheque
| However, the materials will be curated
according to the categorical research goal.
The materials will vary from printed matters
to digital and the participating public is
encouraged to use it whether they
download or photocopy the materials.

12. Workshop
The workshop is the life energy of the proposed
installation piece. This is where the conjuction of five
major participants together with the public occur.
The workshop is expected not to limit itself in sharing
and exchange of pre‐made knowledge by major
participants but to explore new possibilities by
engaging with each other and the participatory
public.
Moreover, the workshop demands friendship and
empathy to allow cross‐pollination of ideas (both
practical and theoretical) similar to the relationship
of wasps and orchids.

13. Workshop
| Rather than adding to the chaos of information
overload the aim of the workshop is to slowly
process exchanged information/knowledge
and make it useful in dealing with ecological
crisis in our everyday life.
| Thus, in this activity it reclaims back how humans
make sense of the world. Over/Out, Onsite
Infoshop, Etnikobandido, Marindukanon, and
CivLab will spearhead the workshop with the
assistance of a designated researcher.

14. The Setup
(Hardware)
| The Setup is an important component of the
installation piece. It aims to provide physical
environment, similar to a shell, for the
software component to function.
| As an exoskeleton of the installation piece it
has three subcomponents namely; Solar
Power, Wi‐fi/Radio Station, and Space
Design.

15. The Setup
(Hardware)
| The host (Vargas Museum) is definitely part
of the exoskeleton. A designated researcher
will help conceive the actualization of the
hardware, however, the form of the
hardware is left open to the general
participants to transform.

16. D.I.Y. Solar Power
| A renewable energy will power up the
whole system providing the needed
wattage enough to declare autonomy from
our host (Vargas Museum).
| However, this sub‐part of the hardware
component affirms commensalist
relationship with the said host and not
completely parasitical.

17. Wi-ˇFi/Radio Station
The practical use of wireless communications
technology (Internet and Radio) in the
hardware component of the installation piece
is to transmit locally and globally the
pedagogical materials generated in the entire
duration of the show.
This information distribution platform containing
various ways of responding to ecological crisis
aims to provide the public their tools in dealing
with our current ecological condition

18. Wi-ˇFi/Radio Station
| The Wi‐Fi station also aim
to attract the public to
participate in the
installation piece by
letting them use wireless
Internet for free.
Moreover, these
technologies, as part of
the hardware, are
prototypes that can be
used during disaster or
crisis situation.

19. Space Design
Space Design determines the successful
management of the assigned space for the
proposed installation piece. The designated
researcher who will help conceive in designing
the space has four design components to
consider.

20. Design Components
| Lounge, Library, Radio Station, Workshop.
Obviously, these components are related to
sedentary parts of the house or work space.
| However, the principle of designing the space
utilizes the theory of Temporary Autonomous
Zones introduced by anarchist poet Hakim Bey.
| Together with this principle is the exploration and
use of precarious and salvaged materials
commonly utilized by contemporary artists
Thomas Hirschhorn and Stephanie Syjuco.

21. Software layout

22. Hardware layout

23. Tentative Schedule

24. Radyo itim
Topics x format
| Radyo itim Sunday regular pirate broadcast
{ sept. 28 ~ dec. 28, 2014
| civ lab: dystopic future memory
{ mar. 31
{ april 1
{ april 2
| when systems fail x planting rice
{ april 29, 2014
| project bakawan: ethos. Bathos, pathos
{ February 12 – march 14, 2015

25. Survival/ pag-iral
Feb. 12-19, 2015
| Primitivism x idigneous peoples
{ cordillera studies (ugat, anthro)
{ Mindanao stdies (pss, socio)
| Aeta cultural change since Pinatubo
{ Bakwit phenomenon laro, tayo, dula ta
{ After sendong, pablo and IPs
| c/o up manila x msu iit

26. sustainability/ likas kaya
Feb. 20-27, 2015
| sustainability/ likas kaya
| Feb. 20-27, 2015
{ flowergrave (underground gig, tugtugan)
{ mag-isa collective (paglalakbay)
{ feral crust (eviction, factory)
{ mutual aid not charity (workers)
{ bong dela torre SKAN
{ Pong Anarkulay SKAM

27. Ecology. Oikos (pook)
Feb. 28-Mar 7, 2015
| Urban x rural studies
| Spaces x environment
{ mala-baklang espasyo/ multifunctionality of
public parks
{ per-urban, spaces in transition?
{ humanitarian technologies
| c/o samahang saliksik pasig, andres bukid,
tin alvarez and co.

28. resistance/ aklasan
Mar 8-14, 2 015
| geopolitics, focus on the global south
| direct action x solidarity
{ ASEAN integration
{ APEC summit
{ ARA network
| c/o transform asia, autonomous rhizomes
asia