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    Contemporary Filipino artworks reflect the culture and issues facing the Philippines. Leeroy New's "Balete" installation uses orange conduits to represent the Balete vine and folklore. Nikki Luna creates mixed-media sculptures that raise awareness of violence and exploitation facing Filipinos. Rodel Tapaya's painting "Big Catch" blends science and mythology, showing the contrast between industrial pollution and tribal legends. Overall, contemporary Filipino art serves as a reflection of cultural traditions and how people understand and engage with their environment.

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    Contemporary Filipino artworks reflect the culture and issues facing the Philippines. Leeroy New's "Balete" installation uses orange conduits to represent the Balete vine and folklore. Nikki Luna creates mixed-media sculptures that raise awareness of violence and exploitation facing Filipinos. Rodel Tapaya's painting "Big Catch" blends science and mythology, showing the contrast between industrial pollution and tribal legends. Overall, contemporary Filipino art serves as a reflection of cultural traditions and how people understand and engage with their environment.

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    Contemporary Filipino artworks reflect the culture and issues facing the Philippines. Leeroy New's "Balete" installation uses orange conduits to represent the Balete vine and folklore. Nikki Luna creates mixed-media sculptures that raise awareness of violence and exploitation facing Filipinos. Rodel Tapaya's painting "Big Catch" blends science and mythology, showing the contrast between industrial pollution and tribal legends. Overall, contemporary Filipino art serves as a reflection of cultural traditions and how people understand and engage with their environment.

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    PERFORMANCE TASK IN MODULE 9

    “Contemporary Arts: A Reflection of Living”

    Art has historically piqued the public’s interest, and it’s clear that art is now
    moving beyond the typical museum fare. No other period in Philippine art history has
    had as much variety, both in terms of media and artists, as the examples that will be
    featured today. Whether it’s visual art, video art, performance art, or any other type of
    art, contemporary arts always make waves in the Philippines. To get you acquainted
    with the country’s current art scene, here are some examples of Filipino contemporary
    artworks:

    First on the list are representations of the fascinating folklore and mythology of
    the Philippines about its body of myths, tales, and belief systems that originated from
    various Filipino cultures and traditions. It is Leeroy New’s ‘Balete’ installation (2010) at
    the Ateneo Art Gallery. Inspired by Buddhist monks’ saffron robes and the native Filipino
    Balete tree, New used flexible orange conduit casing accented by plastic cable ties to
    create his unique perception of the Balete vine. These works were integrated into the art
    gallery’s outside and interior architecture. The Ateneo Art Gallery kept Balete on display
    until December of that year. Also, his other installation called ‘Psychopomp's Reef’ was
    launched at the Bonifacio Global City Offsite Gallery in December 2011, where he
    employed the same orange electrical conduits and cable ties as in Balete to create ‘a
    space teeming with strange fauna’.

    As the world advances and humans become more understanding of the world
    that they are in, standing up against various social and political issues have been timely.
    In fact, Nikki Luna, an artist and human rights activist, creates mixed-media sculptures
    and installations to raise awareness of violent misogyny and worker exploitation. Her
    honest works, which usually deal with contemporary issues in the Philippines, draw
    attention to the injustices that Filipinos face both within and without the country’s
    borders. Tiempos Muertos (2013), for example, is an artwork made out of
    diamond-shaped sugar blocks that criticizes the sugarcane industry’s exploitation of
    low-wage laborers.

    Big Catch, a painting by Rodel Tapaya, depicts the stark contradiction and
    flawless blending of science and mythology in a brilliant manner. Acts of dissection and
    weighing of fish, either for consumption or just for fun, are at the heart of this scene. A
    pair of pipes on the lower left emit industrial discharge. The rest of the picture appears
    to be based on tribal legend, with ghosts believed to inhabit trees and water, and
    narrative notions that may be used to transmit information about seasons, fertility,
    ecosystems, or any other significant component of life or environment. For a brief
    period, science and myth— different and independent— might appear competitive in the
    artwork. This represents the superstitions and myths abound in Filipino culture which
    are treated as conventional wisdom most of the time, and are passed on from
    generation to generation regardless of veracity or credibility.

    On a final note, it can be realized that arts hold a connection to the traditions and
    cultural practices of a community. Arts can be a reflection of how people live their
    lives—how their emotions, opinions, ideas, and beliefs affect the way they see the
    environment. Similar to the examples mentioned, arts can serve as a representation of
    human beliefs and understanding to which they can use to take part in making their
    culture and living meaningful, and eventually make it known to the world.

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