Countdown to the "Box Unfolded"

FILIPINO ARTISTS TO SHOW CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN IN HK
November 2008 will mark the launch of FLIPmo’s (Filipino Creatives in HK) first big event in Hong Kong with the planned, The Box Unfolded Exhibition to be located in the historic CACHe (The Conservancy Association Centre for Heritage) Building in Sai Ying Pun. The building boasts two levels of exhibition space as well as an outdoor garden and auditorium for big group functions.

CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ART AND DESIGN MAKING NOISE!
Within the last year, Filipino Contemporary Art and Design in Hong Kong and the Philippines has been gaining more and more attention and acclaim internationally. Exhibitions shown this year at OSAGE by Hong Kong and Manila-based Filipino artists, and ART HK 08 by the Drawing Room Gallery from Makati, displayed contemporary Filipino works whose success was evident in rapid sales.

REFLECTING ON OUR PAST and OUR CULTURE
History of the Hong Kong-Phillipine connection has been defined by trade, export, a sharing of resources (evident by the number of Domestic Helpers located here), as well as tourism. With the Box Unfolded Exhibit, FLIPmo aims to use this solid connection to help identify even further what it means to be a Contemporary “Filipino” today defined dually by roots of birth and migration.

WORKING ON UNFOLDING THE BOX
The term “Box Unfolded” refers to the “Balikbayan / Returnees Box”, a box that Overseas Filipinos fill with gifts and novelty goods for their friends and relatives in the Philippines and Abroad. The exhibition is a literal and ideological unfolding and exposure of a Filipino’s wealth, adopted culture, values, and lives as a Continental and Global Filipino today. These international artists are given “box” spaces in which to treat as their own “Balikbayan Box” unfolded, expressed, and exchanged.

Artists and Designers of any ethnicity are invited to apply for the November show. Sponsorships and Donations are most certainly welcome. The “Artist Call Out” is now available via the FLIPmo BLOG at http://flipmo-hk.blogspot.com.
Deadline for the Artist Call Out is September 15, 2008.

IMAGE: CACHe Hong Kong, Site of the Unfolded Box Project Exhibit