Kwok Hin Tang at Pan///

Transi(en)t Manila kicks off tomorrow with the launch of HongKong artist Kwok Hin Tang's work at the Pan/// space at the Panpisco Building in Escolta tomorrow, 15 November, Saturday at 4PM. 

If you find yourself in the area early enough, there are also other things to check out in Escolta. Drop by 98B's Future Market at the First United Building, which starts at 9AM. Browse what's for sale, check out the art at Esc Project, and then stay for Kwok Hin Tang's opening. We promise it will be a blast. See you there! 

Transi(en)t Manila Calendar

Want to stay updated with the Transi(en)t Manila's comings and goings? Check out the activities calendar posted here. You can also keep posted through the Facebook events page here. 

Here we go, Manila!

Project Glocal and 98B COLLABoratory, in partnership with the Escolta Commercial Association, Inc, present Transi(en)t Manila, a lightning residency program, conceived to provide avenues of involvement for artists and collaborating creatives from different disciplines. The project was launched in April 2014, with satellite programs in Taipei in March and Penang in August. 

Through the lightning residency program Transi(en)t Manila, invited artists from Manila, Japan, HongKong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand will produce installations, performances, laboratories, talks, and screenigns to activate selected heritage buildings in Escolta. 

Transi(en)t Manila launches this Saturday, 15 November, in Escolta. See you there! 

Purrject Glocat is Purrfect

From Marika Constantino's Instagram

Glocat and Roborats. From Jessel Duque's Instagram

Marika Constantino and Anjo Bolarda are working it until the sun goes down. 

Project Glocat with her two robo-rat suitors hanging out and having their photos around Escolta.  Watch out for them in the coming days. 

Sunday Holiday Prep Day

Curator Dayang Yraola, Yukie Mitomi and artist Umeda Tetsuya at 98B. 

Project Glocal people are so excited for the upcoming Transi(en)t Manila installment that we met up on a holiday weekend to start the preparations.

Of course, no meeting is complete without a hearty lunch. Thanks, Yukie! 

Umeda Tetsuya adds his doodle on the artists' wall at 98B. 

Then we trekked over to 98B to iron out the details of participating artist Umeda Tetsuya's residency.

Meanwhile, Anjo and Marika headed out to take photos of Project Glocal's very lucky cat and her two robot suitors.

Just another day at Project Glocal!

Artist Talk x Kok Yoong Lim: Humans and Digital Footprints

Kok Yoong Lim shows still captures from Super Corridor,
where footprints were recorded at 3AM, when nobody was physically there.

Malaysian artist Kok Yoong Lim delivered his artist's talk last September 12 at 98B COLLABoratory.

Wing explores the relationship of new technologies and human existence, specifically how these technological developments affects how we express our identities.

It was a full house at 98B. 

"When You Are Not Your Body" explored the disembodied culture of chat and e-mail. Wing placed a camera that takes pictures of those which view it. Using a digital video feed, the viewer is then forced to see him or herself as an "other." The viewer is there in the gallery and yet elsewhere. The result is both disconcerting yet comforted by the familiar in a strange space.

Meanwhile, in "Super Corridor," the artist takes a space that is usually ignored: the common hallway where everyone passes and yet barely pays any mind or attention to it. Wing's camera captures the moment in time when a person walks on that corridor and preserves and reinforces that person's presences in a very specific time and space.

Dayang Yraola and Kok Yoong Lim

As existence and the meaning of life are his art's central themes, Wing will continue to work with technology and how everyone's experience of life is mediated and/or drastically altered by cyberspace and other contemporary phenomena related to digital existence.

Wing with the student interns, Marika Constantino of 98B and Dayang Yraola of Project Glocal

Artist Talk: Kok Yoong Lim

Project Glocal Manila is proud to present Kok Yoong Lim from Malaysia as the fifth artist to give a talk this year at 98B. 

Kok Yoong Lim works with new technologies to explore and investigate the human dimension of technological development and discourse. Most of his works take the form of (interactive) installation. He is currently lecturing at the Global School of Media in Soongsil University, Korea. 

The talk will happen in 98B's Collaboratory on September 12, Friday, at 3PM. Admission is free. 

Anjo Bolarda at The Postcard Shop

Anjo working on The Postcard Shop signage. 

Filipino artist Anjo Bolarda considers The Postcard Shop as his studio in Penang. He's been here in George Town for nearly two weeks for the Project Glocal residency. 

Turn and smile for the camera, bro. 

In the first week, he held an open studio for Portrades. People coming into The Postcard Shop can tell him stories about themselves and in return, he draws their portraits. The next week saw him working on the portraits at 28Bahari or at TPCS.

Artist Marika Constantino needs to step up for Transi(en)t Penang. 

After he has finished all the portraits, he realized that he wanted to leave something behind in his studio--a mark that he, too, was there. 

Ms. Julie's son owns The Postcard Shop,
but is gladly helping us with the work. 

He started working on a signage for The Postcard  Shop. Wooden planks were sawn and nailed to form a frame. He painted it in red and white, minimal and warm and welcoming, and yet at the same time something which still reflects his interest in Oriental and Japanese print and art. 

Project Glocal Teaser

The teaser has landed! Project Glocal: Stamped features nekko found all across Asia.

Team Transi(en)t Takes the Jeep

Curator Dayang Yraola is all grins. 

Riding the jeepney like a boss. 

Here's a little behind the scenes look at Project Glocal. After the tour of Intramuros, Team Transi(en)t  needed to go to Escolta to preapre for the Artist's Talk by Urich Lau and Shih Tung Lo at 98B. 

How to cross over from Manila's south back to the North? The jeepney to the rescue. Out the old walled city and past the Post Office at Plaza Lawton, over Jones Bridge and a right turn to Escolta. Voila! We're delivered almost right in front of the First United Building. 

Quite an authentic Manila experience, too.