Delayed but still on track.

All-

We've had a few setbacks with the exhibition in that we're still waiting for some approval for funding for the show, so, unfortunately the show will be postponed. THERE'S STILL HOPE, HOWEVER... We're going to put some effort in fundraising and getting some great things together!!!! Stay tuned.....

- Jeff

SELECTED ARTISTS

We would like to thank all the artists who have submitted their work for "The Box Unfolded Exhibition". We have selected 16 artists to exhibit their work in this year's exhibition. We would like to inform you that the location of the exhibition has changed to City Hall Hong Kong. The Exhibition Hall is more flexible and accessible for our needs.
Our concept will be kept the same and artists will be given exhibition space in the following formats:

Artists Placement

Short Video - Hanging Boxes

1. Manny Montelibano and Romania Diaz

2. RA Rivera

3. Romeo Candido

4. Dada Docot

5. Eliza O.BarriosInstallation Area

6. Felix Bacolor

Installation

7. Alwin Reamillo

8. Joel E. Ferraris

9. Mark Salvatus and Vienna Parreno

10. Arnel S. Agawin

11. Manny Montelibano

Box Installation Space

12. Gene Pendon

13. Tito Cascante

14. Electrolychee

15. Rowena Gonzales

Wall Display

16. Johnathan Cruz

17. Team Manila

18. Inksurge

EXHIBITION DATE:MAY 2- MAY 8, 2009.Opening: Saturday MAY 2, 2009 @ 2pmClosing: Saturday MAY 8, 2009 @ 10pm
HK City Hall website:http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/CityHall/en/exhibition_hall.php

To all the artists that have not sent their resumes please so do as soon as possible.Thanks!For any further inquiries please contact flipmo.rowena@gmail.com

Off the radar and back in the radar.

The Flipmo crew have been in stealth mode for a few months (Sorry about that! ) But we've been making progress in finding a venue, meeting more artists, and getting the show running.....

Going back in time a little bit, Futuramanila was an exhibition that ran in Hong Kong in the Osage Gallery during the fall of 2008.

Untitled/Again (Marienbad/Hong Kong)

September 27, Saturday, 4 - 6pm

Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong

FUTURAMANILA exhibition runs until October 6, 2008

Untitled/Again (Marienbad/Hong Kong) is a performance installation inspired by Luis Bunuel's film Exterminating Angel and Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad. Both seminal pieces of modern cinema are legendary for their self-contained yet ambiguous structure in which memory and mores are subject to doubt, and events, locations and personas remain repetitive yet also mutable and oblique. In his durational performance, Yason Banal explores portraiture, memory and seriality by transporting Marienbad to contemporary Hong Kong, inhabited by figurines in sculptural garments and gallery artifacts. Putting a surreal twist on modern patrician codes such as art house cinema, realist portraiture, exotic cuisine and classical music, the well-composed tableaux vivant begin to show cracks in the surface as the figurines drink liquor while performing tasks - durational and repetitive acts of remembrance and representation begin to implode against/into spectral documents and suppressed associations.

The performance at Osage will be the first of a series of installments happening in Manila, Berlin, Stuttgart, Jakarta, San Francisco and London. The work-in-progress will result in boxed edition sets of garments, text, still and moving images.

Flipmo, CB Fresh, Yason, et al..






Flipmo/CB Fresh collaboration.

Artist Call Out

The Box Unfolded - Call Out November 2008 Juried Exhibition FLIPmo is a non-profit organization currently accepting submissions for The Box Unfolded exhibition in November 2008. The application deadline is September 15th, 2008. Fifteen artists will be chosen by September 20th for the exhibition and their work will be displayed at the CACHe gallery in Sai Yin Pun, Hong Kong for one month as well as on the online gallery. All submissions for the exhibition must relate to the theme as detailed in the paragraphs below.

Theme: The Box Unfolded
The Box Unfolded is a juried exhibition for the promotion of International Filipino contemporary art, ideas and culture. Established and emerging Filipino artists, as well as International Artists addressing contemporary Filipino culture, are asked to create works within a box-like space relating to the issue of cultural identity/identities. New media art, short films, sound installation, installation, photography, painting, street art, digital art, sculptures and mixed media are acceptable types of art.

The Box Unfolded exhibition is inspired by the “balikbayan / returnees box”. Within this exhibition each artist will propose to create their work in one of the 15 available spaces provided. In this case, we would like to the artists to treat each space as their own balikbayan box. However, instead of embellishing their boxes with typically favored items such as clothes, toys, and chocolates, these contemporary artists are asked to fill, unfold and exchange their personal experiences of being a Filipino living in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Abroad.

During the opening venue, artist communities from Hong Kong and Manila will come together through full scale live video feed and celebrate Filipino culture with a guest DJ and performance art. Three weekend evening events will be scheduled to attract the Hong Kong public to the exhibit. The scheduled events will include film screenings, live painting and live music performances. In addition to the exhibit, a shop gallery area will be included selling designer Filipino urban fashion and accessories.

The 15 exhibit areas are as follows and are further illustrated in the above floor layout and 3D renderings.

Ground Floor:
Area No. 2) short film suspended box
3) short film suspended box
4) short film suspended box
5) short film suspended box
6) short film suspended box
7) short film suspended box

Second Floor:
Area No. 2) wall hanging space
3) 3D box painting space
4) wall hanging space
5) wall hanging space
6) 3D box painting space
7) wall hanging space
8) installation space
9) installation space
10) installation space

Web Exposure As an online source, The Box Unfolded exhibition audience is limitless, allowing the exhibitions to reach both the art industry and general public. The online source will allow artists to include their personal contacts to promote the exhibitions and artists to galleries, art consultants, interior designers, art organizations and art buyers worldwide.

Exhibition dates & Deadlines To be considered for the exhibition, complete applications are due September 15th 2008 must be received by October 31st for sent work and must be completed by Nov 5th 2008 for on site installations.

Jurors The exhibition will be juried by a panel of jurors. The jurors will come from different areas of expertise within the art world, such as film, design and education. This provides broad and balanced judging and opens many channels of exposure for artists.

Application Artists are to send 2-3 images of at least 500px wide of the art work to flipmo.bushy@gmail.com. In addition to the images, The Box Unfolded requires the following information: Artist Name: Website: Bio: (A little info about you, where you are from, your art and how it relates to Filipino cultural identity anything else interesting) Art Category / Medium: i.e. New media, short film, sound, installation, photography, painting, street art, digital art, print, sculptures.. etc (You can put yourself in as many categories as you like) Exhibition Area: eg. Ground Floor, #2

ARTIST CALL OUT ONLINE: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhkj4zc7_0dr2z82fc

CACHe Plan and Perspectives

1F Plan + Perspective - CACHe / Sai Ying Pun

2F Plan - CACHe / Sai Ying Pun
2F Perspectives 1 of 2 - CACHe / Sai Ying Pun
2F Perspectives 2 of 2 - CACHe / Sai Ying Pun

Say Hello FLIPmo!

So I just remembered that there was no post about us. Well then... say Hello FLIPmo! We're the FLIPmo team that is doing are gosh darn best to put on a quick but awesome show to showcase Filipino art and talent from a new generation of artists. We're a non-profit organization based in Hong Kong, and we're all about pushing for the fun and the edgy from an eclectic and passionate pool of artists here in Hong Kong, Manila, and the world.

The Team:
Rowena, an Interior Designer Filipina born and raised in Canada.
James, an Architect born in the Philippines, then moved to the states at 8, and has now just returned to Asia to ride on the China construction wave.
Jiki, a Filmmaker and TV Producer, born and raised in Manila, and has left the Philippines to see where her career can take her.
Michael, a Teacher from Australia whose a big fan of Filipino culture.
Last but not least, Sharon Atillo and Gel Jamlang who are Filipino artists doing their work and their craft well in Manila.

We believe in what we do. We believe in Filipino artists and designers. We believe in helping spread the word of their talents to a global audience.

We are "FLIP mo"... you're Filipino.

YOUR BODY + PHILIPPINE MAP = C2

FLIPmo TEAM BRAINSTORMING WITH RHETT AND SOME SHOPPIN'

Ransacking Rhett Eala's C2 Boutique at the Fort was part of the agenda. Leaving the place a tattered mess was not. We were initially looking for "uniforms" to wear for the opening night of the Box Unfolded Exhibit in November this month... that was until we found out we'll probably get to wear different ones now that Rhett pondered designing a Limited Edition collection especially for the exhibit. FLIPmo would have been happy if he shared his current collection with all the Hongkers, but now that he brought it up, we think it would be very interesting to see what kind of designs C2 could muster up for the Hong Kong show.

Its a pretty simple concept really, the Philippine Map in various colors adorned all over your body. On Shirts, Shorts, Slacks, and Dresses. Who knew that 7000+ islands would look good plastered twice on a shirt? What a way to wear and show Pinoy Pride at the same time.

So what will "C2 My Pilipinas x the Box Unfolded" shirts look like? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

More Information on C2 My Pilipinas:
http://mypilipinas.org/