Vargas Conversations: Jon Cuyson and Eli Guieb III
October 22 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Vargas Conversations: Jon Cuyson and Eli Guieb III
TAONG DAGAT (People of the Sea) collateral event
22 October 2024, Tuesday | 2:30 – 4:30 PM
1/F Galleries, UP Vargas Museum
Register to join, bit.ly/UPVMTaongDagatTalk.
The UP Vargas Museum invites everyone to a conversation between Jon Cuyson and Eli Guieb III, a collateral event for the exhibition TAONG DAGAT People of the Sea) on 22 October 2024, Tuesday from 2:30 to 4:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public. The discussion seeks to deepen our understanding of the politics of representation and the modes through which the exhibition explores various positionalities to do with belonging, gender, and labor.
TAONG DAGAT (People of the Sea) expands Cuyson’s exploration of the sea as a symbol of the sublime and as a mirror of the soul. Cuyson summons our shared maritime heritage as a memory vault, much like a ship’s cargo hold, locating the sea inside and beyond us so it becomes an all-encompassing site, its surface and depths shifting, in movements that alternate between the volatile and imperceptible, like the Earth’s tectonic shifts or the planet’s orbital rotation. Deploying the formal language of minimalism and abstraction TAONG DAGAT (People of the Sea) presents abstract paintings and sculpture alongside a newly produced film Wet Dreams.
TAONG DAGAT (People of the Sea) is currently on view at the 1/F Galleries of the UP Vargas Museum until 09 November 2024. Write [email protected] for details and related information. The museum is inside the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus and is open from Tuesdays to Saturdays except holidays, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. For updates on events, exhibitions, and advisories check our socials on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter @upvargasmuseum.
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About the speakers
Jon Cuyson
Jon Cuyson is an artist, educator, production designer, and filmmaker. He has participated in artist residencies in Maine and Vermont, USA. Cuyson established Everyday Productions which produces his artistic and commercial projects in 2010. His works have been shown in various local and international group exhibitions including the Underground Gallery Makati, Philippines (2023), SOAS University of London, (2019), Times Museum Guangzhou (2016), and Chulalongkorn University Bangkok (2014).
Cuyson was a recipient of the Fellowship Award of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (2006), the Iowa Arts Council Mini Grant Award (2008), and the Jamaica Flux Workspaces and Windows (2007). Cuyson has an MFA from Columbia University in New York.
Eli Guieb III
Eli Rueda Guieb III is Professor at the Department of Broadcast Communication at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He has published two anthologies of short stories, Pamilya in 2003 and Pitada in 1994, an anthology of teleplays Pilat ng Digma: Mga Teleplay in 2017, and one anthology of essays, Sa Dáko Pa Roón, Sa Dáko Paroón: Mga Pilîng Sanaysay Mula Palawan Hanggang Gunitâ this year. Guieb has won eight recognitions from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for his essays, short stories, and teleplays. He also received the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas sa Kathang Filipino from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas in 2014. He earned his PhD in Anthropology from McGill University in Quebec, Canada.
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About the museum
The University of the Philippines Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center is a center for Philippine art and culture with research, curation, and education as its core thrusts. The Museum is home to the collection of art, books, archives, memorabilia, coins, and stamps of Jorge B. Vargas, a significant political figure in the twentieth-century Philippines and an alumnus of the University of the Philippines.
An avid collector with a vision of sharing Philippine art with future generations, Jorge Vargas donated the holdings he acquired across his illustrious career in public service, sports, and scouting to his alma mater in 1978. Since it opened its doors to the public in 1987, the UP Vargas Museum has been visited by students, researchers, scholars, and the public. The Museum has galleries for permanent as well as changing exhibitions. The galleries are also spaces for educational events such as workshops, lectures, symposia, walkthroughs, and talks by artists and curators. The library accommodates researchers, scholars, students, and artists; it also hosts small exhibitions within its spaces.
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