"Imagination knows no Boundary". Let us celebrate the class of exceptional Filipino Artists and their works.

1. How have contemporary artist
expanded the range of medium and
techniques they utilize?

2. Contemporary Artists are
producing artworks that are
more process-based, site-
specific, interactive, and
collaborative.

4. Secret garden 2
Mark Salvatus’ Secret Garden 2, 2010 is created
purposefully for a small room at the Vargas Museum.
It is an example of a site-specific work and is highly
interactive.
The artist worked with the inmates of a jail in his
home province of Quezon in Southern Luzon.
Together, they fashioned the so-called garden from the
plastic spoons, forks and other implements- a
clandestine process that took place in defiance of
prison rules.

9. Audience interaction with the art form.
A close-up of “The Secret Garden 2”

10. The interactivity of games is also a
core element in the early work of
Ikoy Ricio, who printed a set of
trump cards that had images of
Philippine car wrecks, complete with
body count, and other information
related to accidents instead of the car
statistics that normal trump cards
have printed on them.

12. Untitled (Mirrors)
Created by Maria Taniguchi . She uses the
traditional medium of acrylic on canvas and
the traditional modern style of abstraction,
one of the hallmarks of 20th century Modern
Art.
The work can then be best described as a
Conceptual Performance that is site-specific,
sculptural, and environmental. This work is
part of an installation- Eco Studies, 2011 at
the Vargas Museum.

13. Maria Taniguchi

16. Other art forms in Eco Studies
Maria Taniguchi, ‘Figure Study’
(video still), 2015
Maria Taniguchi, ‘Untitled
(ram dram sram)’, 2015, die-
cut paper

17. Maria Taniguchi, ‘I See, It Feels’
(video still), 2015

18. Waiting
Felix Bacolor’s Waiting, 2012 transformed an
independent space in the Museum of
Contemporary Art and Design to a simulacrum (a
“fake” real, a simulation that is not actually
“real” but simulated or copied) of a terminal
room, complete with metallic immovable chairs
and digital clocks that torturously register the
passing of time.
Site-specific and interactive, the installation
combines environmental, the dramatic and
narrative.

19. Felix Bacolor's stripped down
installation "Waiting."

20. Other art formin Exploring the past, present and future
Tiffany Chung's roof and glass turtles installation "twigs, bones,
rocks and the Giant Tortoise."
Hundreds of tiny glass turtles on Tiffany Chung's roof
installation.

21. Michael Lee commemorates the Benguet Center in "Dwellings."

22. Medium and technique in contemporary art have become more
and more integrated, such that the works have crossed
boundaries between art and science, and between mediums and
techniques. The works are also using contemporary mediums
and techniques based on digital and electronic technology, as
well as reformulated traditional methods.

23. The work of Ian Carlo Jaucian draws his inspiration
from science, and explores its relationship with the
visual arts through artworks that range from
paintings, sculptures, interactive and kinetic
installations.
In a series of works that make use of the principles of
robotics, he has a “liquid robot” triggered by music.
There is a “drawing robot” which was an experiment
and was not part of any show. Combining
mechanical, computer-based, and traditional media
and techniques, these works pose the question:
“What is it to be a human?”

24. Golabulos Tissue Controller, 2014 Golabulos Magnetic Drive Shaft, 2014

26. Anonymous Animals
The exhibition Anonymous Animals, 2013 held in
Mariyah Gallery in Dumaguete City consisted of a
Conceptual Performance piece by Dumaguete-based
artist who posed as excavators of strange animals they
formed out of terracotta sourced from outlying areas.
The artists, Cristina Taniguchi, Michael Teves, Danilo
Sollesta, Mark Valenzuela, and Benjie Ranada,
provided the animals they “excavated” (which they
actually made) with matching scientific data including
the animals’ scientific and common names, taxonomy,
morphology, history, etc.

29. In sum, to know the full meaning of a work, it is also
necessary to study the material from which it is made and
how it is made.

30. Is there any question?