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Mark Andy Garcia and Neil Pasilan. Studio Video 2025

Lessons in Diplomacy Against Diplomacy . . . . . . Opens at 6 PM this Saturday, June 21, 2018 at @ArtInformalGallery, 277 Connecticut Street, Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City. . . . . . . Curated by Lena Cobangbang and Manuel Ocampo . . . . . . If art is a province, who best represent it, but its citizens, right? Citizens who create it as an island utopia where ideas should roam free, to be defended, hence, at all cost. Territorial at the very least, there is no compromise to be meted out for its habitation. “All your base are belongs to us.” Diplomacy is tricky. Diplomacy erodes at a principle of a stand. Diplomacy is dancing on firecrackers and smiling with the devil, sleeping with the enemy while pulling fast the mattress underneath. Inchoate contracts signed in rum and tears, arguing for benefits, for the best arrangement for one’s fubu. Yet, the landscape remains a promising conquest, a world in your eye, a glimpse of paradise. The seas surrounding it bode of transactions and deals mawing with each heaving. Dance upon the waves, tread through the waters, the sands beckon, the diplomats are coming. . . . . . . The show is a reunion of sorts and a reckoning of what needs to be revitalized again in the dormant complacency of pleasant views and regurgitated muses. Conflict resolutions dealt in the way they know best. For art thou alone exists, exist to resist. . . . . . . Lessons in Diplomacy Against Diplomacy features works by: Pipo Alido, Argie Bandoy, Valeria Cavestany, Mike Crisostomo, Maria Cruz, Patrick Cruz, Jed Escueta, Robert Langenegger, Jet Melencio, Gabe Naguiat, Jayson Oliveria, Masi Oliveria, Bud Omeng, Israel Remo, Carlo Ricafort, Timo Roter, Gani Simpliciano, Gerardo Tan, Jeff Tan, MM Yu, and Jeona Zoleta. . . . . . . #LessonsInDiplomacyAgainstDiplomacy #ArtInformalGallery #Ingress #ArtHandler #ArtPH (at Artinformal)