VIVA Excon Antique

in: Performance » 2023

TRANSNA­TION - Transna­tion­al coal­tion of the arts 
was in­vited to par­ti­cip­ate to the Bi­en­nale in­vited by artist­ic dir­ect­or Norberto Roldan.
27.10.2023

Artists from the is­lands of Samar, Bohol, Cebu, Negros Ori­ent­al, Negros Oc­ci­dent­al, Guimaras, from the provinces of Panay — Aklan, Capiz, and Iloilo — and se­lec­ted in­ter­na­tion­al artists will con­verge in An­tique for the 17th edi­tion of the Visay­as Is­lands Visu­al Arts Ex­hib­i­tion and Con­fer­ence (VIVA ExCon) on Novem­ber 8-10, 2023.

Images by Humans of Antique

VIVA ExCon is con­sidered as the longest-run­ning and largest art bi­en­nale in the Phil­ip­pines. De­signed as both an ex­hib­i­tion and a con­fer­ence, the ex­hib­i­tion com­pon­ent of VIVA EXCON I, was meant not only to “show­case con­tem­por­ary works of visu­al arts from the dif­fer­ent is­lands but also to pro­mote visu­al art forms re­flect­ive of the is­land­s’ cul­tur­al in­flu­ences, his­tor­ic­al tra­di­tions and cur­rent so­cial situ­ations aside from en­cour­aging in­nov­at­ive, ex­per­i­ment­al or col­lab­or­at­ive works among Visay­an visu­al artists.” (VIVA EXCON Folio, 1990)

Transna­tion mem­bers An­dreas Hoff­mann (DE), Daisuke Takeya (JP), Boyet de Mesa (PH), Satadru Sovan Ban­duri (IN), Padun­sak Koch­som­rong (TH), Zoncy Heav­enly (MM), Evamaria Schaller (DE/AT)