Alter/(n)ations: The Art of Imelda Cajipe Endaya to be launched January 4, 2011
Flaudette May V. Datuin’s book Alter/(n)ations: The Art of Imelda Cajipe Endaya, will be launched at 6 pm, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at the Liongoren Gallery in Cubao, Quezon City. The book is one of the refereed publications recently published by the University of the Philippines (UP) press, which is mandated to encourage, publish, and disseminate scholarly, creative, and scientific works that represent distinct contributions to knowledge.
The book launch also opens an exhibit of the artist’s selected works clustered along interlocking themes outlined in the book: cultural identity and nation, displacement and diaspora, home, sisterhood and solidarity, women and globalization. Guests of honor are Incoming UP President Alfredo Pascual and wife Menchu Pascual, and QC Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte Alimurung. Exhibition will run through January 18, 2011.
Datuin, as editor, gathered scholars Alice Guillermo, Cherubim Quizon, Indira Myra Endaya, Brenda V. Fajardo, Eileen Legaspi Ramirez, and Neferti Tadiar to enflesh the various ways by which the life and work of Cajipe Endaya can be read. Datuin frames these essays through four categories: “framework, patchwork, artwork and worldwork.”
Foreword is by poet and multi-awarded author Marjorie Evasco. Datuin is a feminist art historian and critic, currently serving on the faculty of the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines. Recently appointed as Visiting Research Fellow of the University of New South Wales (2010-2013), she was also recipient of a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University, research grants from the Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF) and Asian Public Intellectual (API) fellowships, which enabled her to conduct pioneering research on contemporary women artists of China, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan. These research works inform her curatorial projects, including trauma, interrupted, an international art project on trauma, art and healing in 2007. She is currently curating Nothing to Declare, another international art project slated for November 2011 in Manila.
She is author of Home Body Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts, 19th Century to the Present also from the UP Press.
Cajipe Endaya won the Irwin and Florence Memorial Award (highest annual award) from the American Society of Contemporary Artists (ASCA) New York City in 2008 and the ASCA Honorable Mention for Mixed Media in 2009. She received the Thirteen Artists Awards in 1991, Araw ng Maynila Award for Painting in 1998, the CCP Centennial Honors for the Arts in 1999, and Ani ng Dangal from the National Commission for Culture and Arts in 2009.
Liongoren Gallery is located at 111 New York St. (near Stanford), Cubao, Quezon City. For inquiries, call (02) 9124319, or 964-3496.
Contact Person: Norma C. Liongoren
Liongoren Gallery
Telephone (02) 964-3496
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