ARCHIVING 142 FOR 2008

SLEEPWALKING by Yason Banal
January 30, 2009

Ringo Bunoan is an artist, curator, researcher and writer. A graduate of the UP College of Fine Arts, she works with installation, sculpture, photography and video, and has exhibited widely in Manila and abroad. She also taught at the UP CFA and has contributed her writings on art for various publications. From 1999-2004, she led the independent art space Big Sky Mind, which supported young artists through exhibitions, exchanges and residencies. Since 2007, she has been working for the Asia Art Archive in Hongkong. She is currently doing a special research on pioneering Filipino conceptual artist Roberto Chabet and is preparing for a solo exhibition at the Vargas Museum on February 2009. Entitled “Spectacle and Surveillance,” the exhibition revolves around her work with Chabet, memory, history, and the archival process.


SPECTACLE AND SURVEILLANCE: NOTES ON ARCHIVING

Archiving complements my practice as a visual artist since many of my works deal with the politics and psychology of remembrance and the desire for structure and order. The material that I gather, all those data and information, have become charged readymade objects, which reveal so much, however subtly, the underlying elements governing the art of today.

Selecting what to archive is a deliberate decision. We choose what we want to remember, what we believe are worth remembering. History is never impartial nor complete; it is almost always dependent on who is writing. For archivists, it is a challenge to fill the gaps and build upon what has already been recorded. More than anything, we aim to provide a record our time.
- Ringo Bunoan


LIST OF EXHIBITIONS IN 2008:

1. Bembol Dela Cruz Indelible, Finale.
2. Geraldine Javier Living Images, Leaden Lives, The Art Center.
3. Romeo Lee Romeo Lee and His Fans, Magnet.
4. Ringo Bunoan Little Deaths, MO_.
5. Ferdz Valencia The Ever Existing Nothing, Prose Gallery.
6. Ronaldo Ruiz Digital Intervention, The Drawing Room.
7. Argie Bandoy The Simple Beginnings of Chaos, Finale.
8. Andrei Salud Masarapmatulog / Garish Barish video exhibition, Cubicle.
9. Poklong Anading Fallen Map, Magnet.
10. Poklong Anading Untitled (Landmark). Magnet.
11. Gerry Leonardo Outdoor Installation, CCP.
12. Mariano Ching We Are Not Afraid Of You And We Will Beat Your Ass, West Gallery.
13. Francesca Enriquez, Finale.
14. Froilan Calayag Life is Like Candy, CCP.
15. Leeroy New Psychopompous, CCP.
16. 22nd Asian International Exhibition, Ayala Museum.
17. Al Cruz Picture, Painting, Theater, Movie, Window, Mirror, West Gallery.
18. Sic, West Gallery.
19. Jonathan Ching Nothing is Compulsory Except Happiness, West Gallery.
20. Rachel Rillo Manila, Silverlens.
21. Juan Alcazaren Gone to Seed, Finale.
22. No Title (Other Drawings), MO_.
23. MM Yu Black, Magnet.
24. Exhibit A: Conversations with Now, MCAD.
25. Tutok: Kargado, Ateneo Art Gallery.
26. Lena Cobangbang Overland, Finale.
27. Jayson Oliveria Truth Adjustment, Magnet.
28. Ringo Bunoan Pillow Talk, Silverlens.
29. FOEM, The Art Center.
30. Wire Tuazon Parables and Paradoxes, Finale.
31. Don Salubayba Images from my Floating Third World, The Drawing Room.
32. JJ Christine Villamarin Walang Kaparis, VOCAS.
33. Café By The Ruins 20th Year Anniversary.
34. Strain Extension, MO_.
35. Living on Loring, Galleria Duemila.
36. Pete Jimenez Simple Creatures, Magnet.
37. Romeo Lee Wild Things, Pablo
38. Manuel Ocampo & Argie Bandoy Problem with Styles, Green Papaya.
39. Agnes Arellano The Goddess Revisited, Crucible.
40. Gallery Selection, Finale.
41. Cris Villanueva Memorable Fiction, West Gallery.
42. Aba, The Art Center.
43. Elaine Roberto-Navas Garage Sale, Finale.
44. Steve Tirona Will Work 4 Food, Silverlens.
45. Public Art Installations at Bonifacio High Street.
46. Robert Langenegger Foul, Counted, Magnet.
47. Lindslee Figuring Abstraction, The Drawing Room.
48. Ranelle Dial Withering, West Gallery.
49. Them, West Gallery.
50. Gina Osterloh Shooting Blanks, Green Papaya.
51. Felix Bacolor The Sound of Aeroplanes, West Gallery.
52. MM Yu Odds and Ends, Finale.
53. Charlie Co Time + Space, Alliance Française.
54. Mariano Ching & Yasmin Sison Spinning Sugar, Magnet.
55. Shift, MO_.
56. Patawa, Metropolitan Museum.
57. Costantino Zicarelli It Was Always The Devil’s Turn, Because We Are Here Together and Forever, Until the Day The World Will Be On The Verge of Sorrow, Hiraya Gallery.
58. Under My Skin, Ateneo Art Gallery.
59. Room 307: Inkling, Gutfeel and Hunch, National Art Gallery.
60. Tutok, National Art Gallery.
61. Counter-Photography, National Museum of the Philippines.
62. Swarm In the Aperture, National Museum of the Philippines.
63. Kidlat De Guia Sleeping White Elephants, Galleria Duemila.
64. Leonardo Aguinaldo Connectivity, Galleria Duemila.
65. Katrina Bello Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Drawing, Magnet
66. Jonathan Olazo Tattoo and Catastrophe, The Drawing Room.
67. The Sum Of Its Parts, Lopez Museum.
68. Luwalhati, Art Informal.
69. Bencab Related Images, Silverlens.
70. Alwin Reamillo Nicanor Abelardo Grand Piano Project, Vargas Museum.
71. Geraldine Javier Sampaloc Cave Paintings, Podium.
72. Alvin Villaruel Vessels, West Gallery.
73. Lyra Garcellano Troubled Sleep, Finale.
74. Christina Dy Clothes They Stood Up In, Crucible.
75. Louie Cordero Absolute Horror, MO_.
76. Pure Hybrids / Normal Aberrations, White Box Studio.
77. Nona Garcia Planted Landscape, Podium.
78. Ateneo Art Awardees 2007 Return Exhibition, Ateneo Art Gallery.
79. 60 x 40, West Gallery.
80. Bernardo Pacquing Making Truth Forgettable, Finale.
81. Jucar Raquepo & Alvin Villaruel Hard-Edge and Blurred, Magnet.
82. Johann Espiritu Symmetry / Duality & Frankie Callaghan Stranger, Silverlens.
83. Transmissions: UP Artists and the 13 Artist Award, CCP.
84. Christina Dy Soaplands, CCP.
85. Jay Ticar First Time, The Drawing Room.
86. Yasmin Sison Turning Tides, Finale.
87. Where is Bong Mata?, West Gallery.
88. Mm Yu Rescind, West Gallery.
89. Roberto Chabet & Nilo Ilarde Collages, West Gallery.
90. Jose Tence Ruiz Kotillon, Art Informal.
91. Gristle Pays Homage To The Benevolent Sausage, Magnet
92. Rock Drilon Recent Works, Galleria Duemila.
93. 2008 Ateneo Art Awards, Shangri-la Plaza.
94. Robert Langenegger The Worst Painter Is The One That Paints, Finale.
95. Norberto Roldan Objects and Apparitions, MO_.
96. Wire Tuazon Talisman Bomb, Podium.
97. Louie Cordero & Mariano Ching Death Scream, Blanc.
98. 0%, Green Papaya.
99. Gerardo Tan Ellipses, Magnet.
100. Louie Cordero Pilgrimage to Semina Mountains, West Gallery.
101. Soler Stratus, Finale.
102. Nilo Ilarde What Do Objects Want? The Lives and Loves of Objects, MO_.
103. Juni Salvador Works From Down Under , Magnet.
104. Inaugural Show (Part 1), Finale.
105. Gerardo Tan Theatre of Disguise, Finale.
106. Poklong Anading Random Faults and Root Cause, Finale.
107. Oo: Selected Paintings and Projects by Maria Cruz 1996 – 2008, Ateneo Art Gallery.
108. Juan Alcazaren Test, Magnet.
109. Yuta: Earthworks by Julie Lluch, CCP.
110. Patty Eustaquio Death to the Major, Viva to the Minor, Slab.
111. Daphne Aguilar Pink Noise, Finale.
112. Ronald Ventura After The Lullabye, West Gallery.
113. Bembol Dela Cruz Asphyxia, West Gallery.
114. Bea Camacho Efface. Green Papaya.
115. Argie Bandoy Blind New Works, Mo_.
116. Plet Bolipata & Elmer Borlongan Blue Hour, CCP.
117. Wesley Valenzuela Transmutation, CCP.
118. Gaston Damag Wanted, Finale.
119. Ranelle Dial. A Circa Revisited, Magnet.
120. Marc Gaba Postcapitalism, Magnet.
121. Christina Quisumbing Domestic Bliss, Green Papaya.
122. Inaugural Show (Part 2), Finale.
123. Jayson Oliveria What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?, Finale.
124. Jose Tence Ruiz Derelict Penthouses, Galleria Duemila.
125. Junyee Siete Picados, Galleria Duemila.
126. Alwin ReamilloTutubing Bakal Helicopter Project, Museo Pambata.
127. Silverlens Foundation 2008 Grant Exhibition, Silverlens.
128. Julius Clar Assemblages, Slab 20 Square.
129. Inaugural Show (Part 3), Finale.
130. Keiye Miranda Silent Witness, Finale.
131. Keeping The Faith, Lopez Museum.
132. Roberto Chabet 1964 Drawings, West Gallery.
133. Alwin Reamillo Play By Ear, Galleria Duemila.
134. Bea Valdez Bedtime Stories, Slab.
135. Gary-Ross Pastrana New Collages, Slab 20 Square.
136. Juan Alcazaren & Bernardo Pacquing Etudes For More Than Two Hands, Mo_.
137. Marina Cruz Open House, The Drawing Room.
138. All I Want For Christmas, Manila Contemporary.
139. Trek Valdizno Urgent Paintings From San Rafael, Bulacan, Artis Corpus Gallery.
140. Lynyrd Paras Against My Black Hearted World, Blanc.
141. Map Ruminations, Apt 2805B.
142. TutoKKK, Blanc.