PRESS RELEASE

Online Screenings | General Public
19 and 26 August 2020
2 September 2020

Spend time with us and watch another session of SCREENINGS, the museum’s platform supporting its programs. We’re featuring three past public programs that explore curatorial studies; views on Biennales, and cultural and political institutions; and the processes involved in turning ideas into design. Each program is set for release on our YouTube channel for three consecutive weeks.

Platforms: Curating Contemporary Art with Clare Carolin 
Wednesday, 19 August 2020
Online Screening | General Public
Watch the lecture here.

Clare Carolin was Deputy Head of the Curating Contemporary Art Programme  at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London.  In this 2014 lecture, she explored teaching methods, processes and the programme structure of a postgraduate curating program at RCA, and addressed interest in curating and academic training in the discipline. Carolin co-curated MCAD’s exhibition The Surface of the World: Architecture and the Moving Image  in 2014.

Public Lecture: From Inspiration to Object with Kenneth Cobonpue
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Online Screening | General Public
Watch the lecture here

Kenneth Cobonpue is a multi-awarded furniture designer and manufacturer. He is known for creating pieces of functional art, often using natural materials like rattan and various types of wood and fibers. In this 2016 MCAD lecture, he tells the story behind the creations that made him a household name in the local and international industrial design scene,  and shares his perspective on creativity.

Public Lecture: Revisiting Biennales with Marian Pastor Roces 
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Online Screening | General Public
Watch the lecture here

Marian Pastor Roces is a curator, author, and founder and president of TAO, Inc., the sole museum development corporation in the Philippines. Her essay “Nation, Comparison and the Spectre” is in the catalogue for The Spectre of Comparison, the Philippine participation in the 57th  Venice Biennale. In this 2016 MCAD talk, she shares her views of Biennales, and cultural and political institutions. Read more of her critical essays in “Gathering: Political Writing on Art and Culture” a monograph published by MCAD in 2019.

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