Bow Wow Wow Philippines
Fabrica: Les yeux ouverts
Centre Pompidou, Paris
6 October – 6 November, 2006
Established in 1994, Fabrica is a communications research center whose range of activities extends from graphic design to cinema, taking in industrial design, writing, interactive media, photography and music on the way. Divided into four zones, the exhibition Fabrica: Les yeux ouverts will reveal to the public the work of a multidisciplinary research center whose horizons extend to the whole world.
We’re in the Colors Notebook zone, a project for Reporters Sans Frontieres. Blank notebooks were sent out to people all over for them to fill up with whatever (Freedom of speech being the theme). The finished notebooks are displayed in the exhibition or included in a video installation.
“Bow Wow Wow Philippines” features conceptual art by Leo Abaya, paintings and collages by Jay Lozada, assemblages by Stephanie Palallos, digital art by Guillermo Ramos, general fabulousness by Marlon Rivera, spooky bug-eyed children by Pol Sta. Maria, pornography by Ricky Villabona, drawings of dead people seen lurking around the neighborhood by Jobert Vizcarra’s children (who, being minors, were not exposed to the rest of the material or the artists), and text and serial killer calligraphy by Jessica Zafra.
Useless factoid: Jay, Marlon, Ricky and I all used to live in adjacent apartments on the same floor of the same Makati building, at different times, before we all met.
Post pictures later.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 10th, 2006 at 10:10
irrelevant: i missed reading you! gah! when i first saw your 5000 people you’ll meet in hell in the anvil booth last book fair in wtc, i screamed. i didn’t have nuf purples to buy one. i stayed til what o’clock and hoped you’ll make an appearnce along with the anvil authors during the lit performances in the wtc lobby. even had copies of your books in my bag. hopeful that you’ll throw me a shoe if i annoyed you enough.
an atenean friend says you’ll be teaching them lit. wonder if you’ll throw your shoe at him if he pesters you with my zafra-books-for-signing..?