CONTEMPORARY ART TECHNIQUES

AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES

 What is medium?

What are the examples of mediums?

• The medium also defines the nature of the art form as
follows:
• Sculptor
• Architect
• Painter
• Printmaker
• Musician
• Dancer
• Actor/ Thespian
• Writer
What is technique?

What are the examples of

techniques?
How art is experienced and consumed?

• Art is an artifact.
– When it is directly experienced and perceived.
– It can be spatial and static or unmoving.
– Or it can be time-based and in motion.

• When we experience a work indirectly or

through a medium like film or video, it is
recorded or documented artwork.
– CD/ DVD of a film or musical piece.
– Novel read from an electronic tablet.
• Art is time-based artifact or performance.
– If it is perceived live or directly in real-time.
– Examples are live plays, live performance art and
installation.
– A time-based artifact is recorde and we watch it in
real time but not at the site of the production.
– Examples are documented play, film, exhibit or an
ad generally watched through an electronic
medium—computer, tv monitor, movie screen...
How have contemporary artists expanded the
range of medium and techniques they utilize?
• Mark Salvatus’ Secret Garden 2, 2010
UNTITLED (Mirrors)
(Maria Taniguchi, 2011)
 WAITING
(Felix Bacolor, 2012.)
• In sum, to know the meaning of a work, it is
also necessary to study the material from
which it is made and how it is made.
What are the elements of arts?
• So, one has to be very observant and look at,
feel, hear and sense the work closely—its
material, the techniques that the artist used,
the elements and principles of the
composition.
• All works of art, whether traditional, modern
or contemporary, need to be experienced at
the level of the senses, emotions and of the
mind.
• These forms ask us to see more, taste, smell
and feel more.
• In the process, we gain insights peculiar to the
intensity and character of what we encounter
through the arts.
Local Materials to Contemporary
Arts
• Philippines is very rich in natural resources.
With our artistics inclinations, we can
maximize the use of these natural resources
even in creating arts.
• The environment abounds in giving us the
necessities that we need not only for a day to
day consumption but also for works to keep us
financially stable but also to give us
inspirations.
• Used bottles • Wood
• Hay • Wire
• Rice stalks • Thread
• Plastic straw • Rattan
• Metal
• leaves
 PAHIYAS
• The harvest festival of people of Lucban, Quezon in
honor or San Isidro Labrador, the patron saint of
farmers in the Philippines.
• Every May 15, the townsfolk don their houses with
fruits, vegetables and colorful kiping (a leaf-shaped
wafer made of rice and dyed with food coloring).
• The word “pahiyas,” was derived from “payas,” which
means decoration or to decorate.
• This started in the 15th century when farmers used to
offer their harvests at the foot of Mount Banahaw.

Source: www.pahiyasfestival.com
 SANIKULAS COOKIE MOLD CRAVINGS
• The Sanikulas Cookies are arrowroot cookies that have
the image of Saint Nicholas, also known as “The
Healer” from illnesses.
• Legend says that if you consume these cookies when
you are ill, you get healed and recover in a shorter
period of time.
• The molds are an exceptional piece of folk’s art and
rarity. They would have the initials of the owner
monogrammed on the molds. That is why it is
considered a family heirloom.

Source: Sandagan, Luzviminda and Ayesha Sayseng. 2016. Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions.
Manila: JFS Publishing Services.
 PABALOT
• It is a form of papercutting originating in the province
of Bulacan.
• It involves making intricate papercut designs from
wrappers used in pastillas, usually padel de hapon.
• It involves making intricate papercut designs from
wrappers used in pastillas, usually padel de hapon.

Source: www.artesdelasfilipinas.com/archives/58/the-pastillas-paper-cut-tradition
TAKA
PAGBUBURDA
SINGKABAN
PUNI