At the CCP, art flourishes despite lack of funds
CARMELA G. LAPEÑA, GMA News
08/17/2011 06:00 PM
With the ongoing controversy over a piece in one of its exhibits, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) has been getting an unusual amount of attention lately.
While there may not be such a thing as bad publicity, however, the CCP would much rather receive the kind of attention that leads to financial support.
As a tour around the CCP on Wednesday revealed, the artists succeed not only because of the support given by the institution, but also despite the lack of funds.
“Yung kotse natin kapag umaabot ng limang taon lumalabas na po yung mga diperensya. Yung tao din, when we hit 40 may mga supplements na. This building is 42 years old and the cracks are beginning to show,"says Head of Theater Operations Ariel Yonzon.
"With limited resources and such an old facility, we're kind of cramped. We have some limitations," says Yonzon, whose career in the CCP began in 1985, when he worked as a part-time usher.
At the height of the controversy over the artwork Poleteismo last week, CCP Vice President Chris Millado invited the media to tour the center's premises to “feel the energy of this wonderful exchange and innovation of the creative mind, so that we may all better appreciate where art comes from and how art is created and why we all need to staunchly uphold this space called artistic freedom."
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