MULTI DISCIPLINARY ARTIST
Performance Art + ART PROJECTS (video art, site specific works, collaborations ,collectives)
Collaborating artists MITCH GARCIA and IAN MADRIGAL display snippets of their performance from the Tupada event Kinetic Orchestra. With RPG - Role Playing Games 1: Fragmented Link, they simultaneously combined performance and video, contesting live art and its spectators. According to them, "performance is a date and a setting with elements and action on its opposite state." While their videos played on two television sets, and an electric guitar was strummed live by a collaborator in the background, Garcia stitched Madrigal's lips together with no anesthetics. Garcia's video was a collation of various artists' performance documentation, edited to create an abstract of a crime investigation with the last part rendered as comics, leaving the audience to take on the detective's coat and magnifying glass to solve a mystery: is live action reality or fiction? Madrigal's video, however, used poetry text over past video works, creating another scenario altogether. The pain involved in the process resounded through the stunned audience as the stitching stopped and Madrigal started reading his noiseless poetry, unable to mouth words he wrote. These performances on the virtual interstice juxtaposed technology with human characteristics to create artificial forms of artistic expression.
Texts by : Jevijoe Vitug
RPG - Role Playing Games 1: Fragmented Link (Video)was exhibited by Mitch Garcia & Ian Madrigal at the Atrium, 4/F Cultural Center of the Philippines from April - May 20, 2007.
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RPG (Role Playing Games 4 : CRIME ACTIONS
2006 9 min 11 sec. Borrowed sound (Nine Inch Nails)
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Using footage of past performance artworks, RPG Role Playing Games 4 : Crime Actions
explores the performative in photo & video documentation. Raising questions if performance art actions are equivalent to the same actions recorded in video, RPG alleges that performance art on video is in an entirely different context than the originalperformative actions. The work points out the medium of video is enabled for manipulation and that the process of editing already differs it from the actual thing that was filmed. The manipulated or edited work becomes a new creation with actions then recreated.
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The title Crime Actions refers to the images used in this piece-photos taken from the web
as well as selected shots chosen by Garcia to create impressions of a crime scene.
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Featured / Exhibited
END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT ll
Daily Disclosures
12-16 October 2007 5th FL Shangrila Plaza
TRADE OFF 2004
LELIEU (Rencontre Internationale Performance Art De Quebec & Montreal Canada)
In 2004 where globalization is on rise, a time where facebook and other social media’s are just beginning, this was the time of transition. I was wearing clothes from Manila and got it from the Ukay ukay when at that time was not yet so popularized- “thrift shop culture”. These cloths and items originally for relief goods is starting a booming business in the Philippines. I was referring to writing texts “DURATION- GLOBALIZATION-TRADE –NOW”. Duration referring to the action I was doing – GLOBALIZATION-TRADE –NOW are words suggesting a cheap window display. I was writing this using lipstick. The music behind, I asked someone to DJ for me- sound from a local jeepney playing as I want it to seem. In 2004, the Philippines was labeled The OFW city where women where domestic helpers & whores to survive / to feed a family back home. Manny Pacquiao & Charice Pempengco wasn’t visible yet at that time so it was strange for the Canadians encountering a Filipina like myself talking to them in straight English. They weren’t even aware of where and what the Philippines was and so I spoke to the audience naked imposing “Everything is FOR SALE, but I AM NOT FOR SALE” in red lipstick written all over me. I spoke to them in English like a ted talks at that time, asking to trade for my clothes and my other items. They seemed quite confused and others were yelling feminist. “I was actually investigating on the price and value of a trade or sale at that time. Selling it live in a performance art event / venue where I was” I provided a handwritten price list in Canadian dollar rate. Some traded items gave me a cigarette, a rose and some bought the live sound I played, my underwear and were attempting an auction call.
- Notes : by the artist 2015
ACTION FIGURE SERIES (Site specific-performance- Installation) 2014-current
Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival 2014
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Our Lady of Merchants - Transitio 1945,Intramuros Manila 2017
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http://cnnphilippines.com/life/culture/2017/02/28/manila-transitio-1945.html
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