Unpreparedness and Manila

The Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN) invited a contribution to their first volume of writing on Philippine contemporary visual art. Decisively centered in, though not exclusively steered towards, Philippine art contexts, PCAN reflects on the curious location of Philippine art writing as it plays out along the production and presentation of visual arts in recent years. Unpreparedness and Manila is a peer-reviewed chapter in a book titled: 'Writing Presently'. The paper discusses Filipino film director Eduardo W. Roy Jr many terrors of homelessness and helplessness in his 2016 film Pamilya Ordinaryo alongside the insecure biopolitical circumstances of Racquel de Loyola’s durational performance, Mound(2011) which gives exceptional form to an unforgiving aspect of life in Manila.

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