• EXHIBITION: Manila, Philippines. NOTHING TO DECLARE (NTD), a multi-venue and multi-pronged international art project aiming to contribute to contemporary discussions on migration, will open with an exhibition at BLANC Compound on 18 October-November 12, 2011. Participating artists at Blanc are Sonia Barrett (Germany), Estan Cabigas (Philippines), Jef Carnay (Philippines), Jean Marie Casbarian (USA), Noel Soler Cuizon (Philippines), Lizza May David (Germany), Livia Daza-Paris (Canada + Venezuela), Kawayan de Guia (Philippines), Chad Erpelding (USA), Renee Kildow (USA) Knoll+Cella (USA/Austria), Leeroy New (Philippines), Frances Nicole Manzanero (Philippines), Lizelle Ortigas (Philippines), Eva Petric (Austria), Mark Salvatus (Philippines), Josephine Turalba (Philippines), and Sonja Van Kerkhoff + Sen McGlinn (The Netherlands/New Zealand).
Works and artists@blanc can be viewed at http://nothing2declare2011.wordpress.com/blanc/
• CURATORIAL CONTRIBUTION: From October 26–30, the Asian Film Festival Berlin (AFFB) will present over 30 contemporary Asian feature, documentary, and short films that take “Imagine(d) Kinships” and “Food” as their themes. The screenings will take place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Korean Embassy’s
Department of Cultural Affairs in Berlin. The Festival will show new works from Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea and the Asian diaspora that present a variety of notions of family and kinship. As a result of processes of globalization and social transformation, life conceptions and notions of community in Asia and the Asian diaspora are constantly in flux. Established forms of dominance continue while new spaces for exciting modes of selfconceptualization and new forms of the communal emerge.
see: http://www.asianwomensfilm.de/
