Only this week did Nanay and I begin to organize my father’s things. We went through his closet, checking the shirts I liked.
A fraction of his custom-tailored short-sleeved shirts, made since he got married, I share here. I had already taken a few when we became the same size, shortly after college. Nanay and Tatay would buy fabric at least once a month—more when we were kids, less when more of their salary went to tuition.
Tatay liked patterns and prints. He didn’t have a preference for color or hue. Most of the shirts had been altered over time. His pants were adjusted gradually to his waistline as he lost weight in the past decade.
I find it funny that Tatay, never drawn to appearances, titles, or other indices of upward mobility, is survived by the weight of style.
𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐒 – 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐘 𝐍𝐎𝐖!
NAAA‘s annual research residency program, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐛𝐚𝐢 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉, is accepting applications now through 𝐅𝐞𝐛 𝟏𝟓, 𝟏𝟏:𝟓𝟗 𝐏𝐌 (𝐆𝐌𝐓+𝟖, 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐣𝐢𝐧𝐠).
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Program dates: 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕–𝟐𝟖, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.
We welcome artists and researchers from around the world, particularly those from high latitudes, to submit their applications and join us in Northeast China in 2026.
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Check the links in our bio for application and program details, as well as Zoom info session recordings covering sessions, field trips, schedules, and travel and participation information.
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Invited guest participants:
CAO Baoming, DONG Bingfeng @bingfeng.dong , NiNi DONGNIER @dongnier_nini , Yining He @yining_he_ , JIN Dongxuan, Renan LARU-AN @rgll____ , LI Jiudan, LI Kuizhe @kyucheolyi , LIU Chuang @liuchuangstudio , Tessa MORRIS-SUZUKI, MA Chi @maaaccchhi , Kyong PARK @acrosseurasia , PI Li, Leandro PISANO @leandropisano , SHU Qun, SUN Xun @sun__xun , WANG Hongzhe @holmaaas , WANG Songke, WANG Zijian, XU Shengzhe @mangoharuki , ZHAO Zhi @lee21044 , Feifei ZHOU @feisgram .
The project is conceived by OU Ning @ouningins and Jiaqi LI.
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Image: Zhao Zhi, “Heilongjiang·Wudalianchi·Weishan Farm·Gleaners” from the series 𝑉𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑆𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑖𝑙 – 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦, 2020. Courtesy of Zhao Zhi.
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#changbaishan #paektumountain #harbin #dongbei #residencyprogram
This POSITIONS lecture with Renan LARU-AN is the first in the GROUND TALKS SERIES organised by the Habitat Unit.
Renan G. LARU-AN is a curator and theorist in contemporary arts. He creates exhibitionary, public, and research programs that study “insufficient” and “subtracted” images, subjects, and artistic works unsettled by development and integration projects. Renan is the founder of DiscLab | Research and Criticism, co-founder of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN) at the Vargas Museum of the University of the Philippines and was formerly the artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin. His practice includes the organisation of festivals, biennials and cross-disciplinary initiatives. in Prague, Singapore, Jakarta, Sharjah and Yokohama.
In his lecture „Soil Accompaniment: Exercises for Architecture after Architecture“, Renan reflects on the Project Soil-beings (Lamánlupa), currently being exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. He elaborates on the capacity of soil and soil-beings to produce methods of accompaniment (companionship or even comradeship) within and alongside the development of architecture. To do so, his lecture draws on experiences during the course of research-making and field communion across the Philippine archipelago in preparation for the Biennale, in which the project encountered a persistent display of architectural imagination from non-architects. While discussing soil being architecture, Renan will talk about “creative exercises” and how soil can transform architectural imagination by transforming initiatives/projects into an adventure in relationality that offers another durable foundation for practising the built environment.
This lecture will be accompanied by two impulse presentations from Prof. Dr. Antoine Vialle (Chair for Transitioning Urban Ecosystems) and artist and researcher Marina Resende Santos. The event will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Anke Hagemann and Natacha Quintero González
🌍✨ Open Call Now Live! ✨🌍
After our first announcement, we’re thrilled to open applications for Lintas Benua – Crossing Continents, an international hybrid residency (online + physical).
🔹 Dialogues across borders
🔹 Journeys of art + ideas
🔹 Building community
🔹 Crossing continents in spirit and practice
🔗 Apply here: /announcements/6784265/lintas-benua-crossing-continents?fbclid=IwRlRTSAMfuSxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkD0rT0r02ehs1EqciPRPuL0JFSEXlJyWu7ABacKMSk4tVYzax_85iTQPJNJ_aem_gNGYO9ivbPTnTMGaq2hx9Q
We are excited to invite you to the lecture and talk at VBKÖ 🌿🌱
🫧Lecture by Jose Mari Cuartero (University of the Philippines-Diliman) @jomscuartero
🫧Moderated by Renan Laru-an @rgll____
📅 July 15, 2025
🕕 18:00-20:00
📍 VBKÖ
Writing and publishing have been conscripted by the cultural logic of coloniality, which underpins gender, race, and class. However, as the prism of intersectionality shared by the legacies of feminism remains to be in an encounter with coloniality, what are the ways we can advance from such circumstances and even at the same time, escape from such a sociocultural entrapment? How do we begin to rhizomatically disrupt such seeming historical longevity of the patriarchal world history to manifest as slithering out to finally lay on the ground the intersectionality over and against such boundaries and restrictions?
The lecture is about the story of Leona Florentino-a 19th-century prolific town poet from Northern
Philippines and the mother of an anticolonial polymath, Isabelo de Los Reyes-whose rich poetic writings trace, and at the same time, embody what I call gift poems.
The gift poems bear a writing culture at the heart of Spanish colonialism that draws a path towards decolonial feminism as seen in the poems, and its dynamic with the succeeding generations redeeming the Indigenous feminism at the point of the contact zone between Europe and the folk.
In traversing such historical imagination, we also seize the vibrant materiality of such a story by recognizing the presence of a craft folk print that can be drawn from her archives, its precarious nature, and expanded kinship, which are stories told as entangled with animals, insects, pests, folk creatures, and the soil.
Photo 1: Image of the monument of Leona Florentino in Vigas, llocos Sur. Photo credit: Jose Mari Cuartero.
Photo 2: Graphic Design of the Image of Isabelo de Los Reyes by Ginoe, the artist.
#LeonaFlorentino #DecolonialFeminism #GiftPoems #VereinVBKO #PoetryAsResistance #IntersectionalFeminism #QueerArchives #IndigenousFeminism #FilipinoFeminism #FeministMemory #DecolonizeTheArchive
#RadicalPoetics #FeministLecture
#PostcolonialThought #ArtAsResistance
〰️✨THANK YOU, RENAN✨〰️
With the turn into a new year that demands fierce hope and tender strength of us all, we give warm thanks to Renan Laru-an for being with us in the last two years of Transition(s).
Renan joined us in 2023 with the proposal of activating Loob within and through the SAVVY house – Loob as both direction and reorientation. As our artistic director, he continued the task of programme development and community building, while accompanying SAVVY Contemporary to new destinations. In the last two years, SAVVY has hosted numerous exhibitions, sound projects, performances, readings and talks, radio contributions, residency programmes as well as a series of workshops in our new regular neighbourhood programme WEDDING AFFAIRS . All were conceived together, reflecting Renan’s vision: „We need a faith to the fantastic – what else could be the least uncanny of sensations in today’s anxieties but to be artistic? In an ongoing crisis of reunions, when we all navigate the coasts of the can and can’t, we carry art to its socius – to the obligatory field of reaching out.“
Dear Renan, we give thanks and wish you blessings and strength for your upcoming endeavors like the curation of the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.
In this coming year, we – the team of SAVVY Contemporary with its executive co-directors, Lema Sikod and Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock – will allow ourselves (for the first time!) to slow down a bit in our programming in the first months of the year, to make space for more introspection, for listening to our own rippling and for re-attuning our antennas. We wish for all of your presence and inspiration in that process – so that our Loob can continue to conceive, create, and nourish other worlds.
Photo by @marvin.systermans
〰️✨SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES ✨〰️
Catch the exhibition before it closes in a tour with Renan!
SOCIETY. OR INFINITE REHEARSALS is an invitation to dance through subtle and not so subtle choreographies, built on the base of multiple rhythms, histories and movements that pulsate through societies implicated in and affected by colonialism and its continuities.
✨31.10.2024 18:00 Tour in English with Renan Laru-an @rgll____
✨ The exhibition is open until 01.11.2024 | Thursday & Friday 14:00–19:00
𓄸 SOCIETY. OR INFINITE REHEARSALS 𓄸
With works by Heba Y. Amin • Vikrant Bhise • Cana Bilir-Meier • Kasia Fudakowski • Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde • Hiền Hoàng • Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju • KMRU • Moses März • Tuli Mekondjo • Thomias Radin • Sung Tieu • Theresa Weber
PHOTO @zhu_xiao_wen 💛
🥙Dönerdialoge: Wege und Ankommen von und für Künstler:innen und Kreative in Berlin / Art and Arrivals in Berlin🌯
Die Stadtbibliothek Pankow lädt zum zweiten Mal zu den „Dönerdialogen“ ein! Kommt vorbei, genießt Kultur in gemütlicher Atmosphäre, der Döner geht auf uns! Alle sind herzlich willkommen.
📅 Datum: Mittwoch, 02.10.2024
🕒 Zeit: 18.00 Uhr
📍 Ort: MEHAS Döner, Greifswalder Str. 208a, 10405 Berlin
💸 Eintritt frei, ohne Anmeldung
🗣 Auf Englisch, mit deutscher Übersetzung
Gäste:
Helga Elsner Torres, peruanische Künstlerin, lebt seit 9 Jahren in Berlin und arbeitet als wissenschaftliche Volontärin im Fachbereich Kultur in Neukölln. Ihre Kunst thematisiert postkoloniale Identität, Machtbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Peru, Migration und die koloniale Vergangenheit; ihre Arbeiten wurden international ausgestellt, darunter in SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin und sie ist Mitglied vom Verein MAV (Mujeres Artistas Visuales) in Peru und bbk e.V. (Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen) e.V. in Berlin.
Renan Laru-an ist Forscher, Kurator und künstlerischer Leiter von SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin. Er entwirft Ausstellungs-, Publikums- und Forschungsprogramme, die ' ungenügende' und ' subtrahierte' Bilder oder Themen an der Schnittstelle von Entwicklungs- und Integrationsprojekten untersuchen.
Moderation:
Zoë Ritts ist eine in Berlin lebende Architektin. Ihre Praxis umfasst Design, Schreiben und künstlerische Formate. Sie ist Gründungsmitglied des Programms Architektur-In-Residency e.V. und der Forschungsplattform Questions on Dwelling. Sie wurde in Toronto (Kanien'kéha/Mohawk: Tkarón:to) geboren, dem traditionellen Territorium der First Nations der Huron-Wendat, Seneca und Mississaugas des Credit-Volkes.
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#StadtbibliothekPankow #DönerDialoge #HelgaElsnerTorres #SAVVYContemporary #Kunst #Migration #EintrittFrei #Döner #voebb #Kultur #Künstlerinnen #RenanLaruan #ZoeRitts #Dönerumsonst
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〰️✨SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES ✨〰️
Punta na kayo! Come, come on Sunday with a tour through the exhibition with Renan Laru-an in Taglish/ English.
The exhibition CURES: CHRONIC PROMISES explores how emotional, mental, physical, and land-based chronic illnesses manifest in our societies across times and geographies. The exhibition showcases different artistic collective practices that might serve as treatments and remedies for the conditions in which communities exist.
Welcome, welcome! Mg sama sama tayo!
𓏅 SAVVY TOUR IN SAVVY TONGUES 𓏅
16.06.2024 17:00
IN TAGLISH/ENGLISH
With Renan Laru-an
→ Tours & entry to the exhibition are free of charge and no registration needed. Our space is accessible by wheelchair.
→ The exhibition CURES: CHRONIC PROMISES is on show until 21.06.2024 and open Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00.
PHOTO @raisa.galofre@marvin.systermans
FUNDING Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
#cures #transitions #coloniality #germancolonialism #healing #exhibition #ausstellung #kolonialismus #tour #tagalog
