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Two Months in Korea Part 2.4

This is a travelogue on the curatorial fellowship I took in Seoul from September to October 2015 under the Cultural Partnership Initiative Program. I was lucky to have had this opportunity — there aren’t very many fellowships or training programs, it seems, for curators of library collections or history exhibits. There are many such programs though […]

Two Months in Korea Part 2.3

This is a travelogue on the curatorial fellowship I took in Seoul from September to October 2015 under the Cultural Partnership Initiative Program. I was lucky to have had this opportunity — there aren’t very many fellowships or training programs, it seems, for curators of library collections or history exhibits. There are many such programs though […]

Two Months in Korea Part 2.2

This is a travelogue on the curatorial fellowship I took in Seoul from September to October 2015 under the Cultural Partnership Initiative Program. I was lucky to have had this opportunity — there aren’t very many fellowships or training programs, it seems, for curators of library collections or history exhibits. There are many such programs though […]

Two Months in Korea Part 2.1

This is a travelogue on the curatorial fellowship I took in Seoul from September to October 2015 under the Cultural Partnership Initiative Program. I was lucky to have had this opportunity — there aren’t very many fellowships or training programs, it seems, for curators of library collections or history exhibits. There are many such programs though […]

Two Months in Korea Part 1

This is a travelogue on the curatorial fellowship I took in Seoul from September to October 2015 under the Cultural Partnership Initiative Program. I was lucky to have had this opportunity — there aren’t very many fellowships or training programs, it seems, for curators of library collections or history exhibits. There are many such programs though […]

Public Convenience

A suitable metaphor and representation of media arts cultures in both the present and future would be the Japanese artist Tabaimo’s multi-screen video work, Public ConVENience (2006). The artist says she was thinking a lot of the Internet and privacy while creating this film installation about women in public toilets: “Women do a whole range […]

How do you measure a year?

By the books read, of course. What with Facebook & http://www.gooddrama.net eating up most of my time in 2015, I managed to read only 1/3 of the total number of books I did in 2014. I was still able to read a lot of detective/mystery novels, but just a handful of books by women. Perhaps […]

Bottle Series

I’m taking another free online course, “Fundamentals of Graphic Design.” For our first assignment, we were asked to create 10 denotative images of a household object using as many materials & techniques as we can. The following are “iterations” of a Heineken beer bottle.                    

The Sunday Currently No. 8

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C U R R E N T L Y . . . R E A D I N G Just finished reading Parade by Shuichi Yoshida, whose wonderful novel Villain I read early this year after the holiday trip to Japan. Featuring five […]

Gantala Press

Natapos ko nang sulatin ang unang burador ng ikatlong koleksiyon ko ng tula. Tungkol ito sa pag-aakda sa babae mula pa sa panahon ni Lilith (ang sinasabing unang asawa ni Adan) hanggang sa sariling kasalukuyan — “the personal present.” Malaking bahagi ng koleksiyon ang ilang teksto ni Emily Dickinson, & pinag-isipan ko pa ngang maaaring […]