Opening Reception
Friday, December 9th 6:00 – 10:00 pm
Exhibit runs December 9 – 22, 2011
Altro Mondo
Arte Contemporanea
3rd Level, Greenbelt 5 Makati City
Tel. Nos.: 501 3270 – 71
Mikhail Bakhtin
“Everyone is holding on for dear life.”
James McMichael
The Bull’s Eye: Notes on Anton del Castillo’s
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo Small Gallery
November 10, 2011 6pm
In this exhibition of Anton del Castillo and Michael Bacol, violence is in play, surrounded by children and toys, and so appearing initially benign. This commonsense imagination of strife turning into play, of combat morphing into intense competition between victors and victims lie at the heart of this reflection, and lead us to lift the veilof the innocent appearance, or the semblance of normalcy. Ultimately, there is horror that alights, prompting us to think about how war has become commonplace, ingrained in everyday habits as well as the portent of the future.
The free online resource Wikipedia describes P2P as a social phenomenon in the following description:
P2P is a specific form of relational dynamic, based on the assumed equipotency of its participants, organized through the free cooperation of equals in view of the performance of a common task, for the creation of a common good, with forms of decision-making and autonomy that are widely distributed throughout the network.
As a virtual network, P2P is an open sharing of computers and their media contents through links created by common software (often free). We think of Napster and even of Limewire, both under US Court injunctions for violating protocols in intellectual property rights. We also think of malwares, Trojans and other nasty accretions of code latched under documents, photos and music files that are left open for “sharing”, most of the time with file names that are as provocative and racy as they go. Yet the most popular descendants of the P2P design are the various forms of social network media. By demographics alone subscribers of social networking sites (SNS) comprise a global community-larger than any sovereign state. And representation is only by means of a single (or multiple) account.
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