2. LOCAL
• Can refer to material that is easily available, like bamboo.
The local can also refer to wherever the artists finds himself
or herself. For Diokno Pasilan, a Neo-ethnic Musician-
visual/performance artist and one time art director from
Negros the “local” involves various places: Baguio, Bicol,
Palawan, ( Where he resided for a long period) and most
recetly, Victoria, Western Australia, where he resettled. This
process entails interacting and immersing with host
communities.
3. EXAMPLE
• In a performance for the third Bagasbas Beach International
Environment Art Festival in the Bicol region, Pasilan
communicates the need to be more aware of our natural
environment by painting his body green, the color of the
environment movement. Like bungee jumping human anchor, he
thrust material that is easily available around Bagasbas’s
fisherfolk communities. These communities provided
information and support for Pasilan and other participating
artists to create their performance and site-specific work on the
Bagasbas public beachfront.
5. Lani Maestro and Poklong Anading
• Another artwork which used
bamboo as basic material is
Digital Tagalog, a collaboration
between Lani Maestro and
Poklong Anading, who are
known for creating mutli-
sensory environments that
come out of their research
about the contexts of spaces
and communities.
6. • Digital Tagalog used Bamboo to construct
physical nodes and create sounds. They also
used found and crafted sound, some of which
were inspired and sourced out of the digitized
audio files of National Artist for Music Jose
Maceda.(housed in the U.P College of Music
Center for Ethnomusicology). The artists could
make up playlists which not only could be
streamed through personal listening devices,
but also could be amplified within larger gallery
space. This larger site was where bamboo-
made music they themselves produced could
overlay the digitized sound selected by the
impromptu musician-deejays working with
sound in the smaller room.
7. • Still other artist create work by reinventing not just tangible
objects like bamboo, but other artforms sourced from the
performing arts of ritual, music and dance.
8. Agnes Locsin
• Davao-based choreographer Agnes Locsin used the techniques of
modern dance to interpret a component of the Moriones holy week
festival of Marinduque. The Moriones narrates the story of Roman
centurion Longino’s Conversion to Christianity upon the healing of his
blindness by the dying of Jesus whom the soldier had been ordered to
guard.
