II. Contemporary Art Forms, Characteristics, & Practices

Visual Arts

• arts that are primarily experienced through sight

• Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking, & Film

Performing Arts

arts that come alive with performance

Music

• Sampung Mga Daliri Pastiche Patisserie: A Symphony of Sounds in Delectable Rhythmic Flavors, 2024, UST Conservatory of Music

  • Annual UST Conservatory of Music concert featuring ten (10) pianos played simultaneously. 

Theater

• Kapeng Barako Club: Samahan ng mga Bitter

  • 2024, UST Teatro Tomasino

Literary Arts

arts that use written words as a medium

Novels

• Mars, May Zombie! | 2022

  • Author: Chuckberry Pascual

  • Illustrator: Alejandro Iñigo Fadul

  • Publisher: Adarna House

Applied Arts

• arts that combine artistic principles with functionality

  • ILOILO CONVENTION CENTER  William Coscolluela

  • VISIONARY COLLECTION | Raymund Joseph “Rajo” Teves Laurel

Conceptual Art

• Idea over form. 

• Emphasizes the idea and process more than the final output of the artwork. 

• Use artwork to challenge the meaning of art.

• COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED, 2010 | Roberto Chabet

Installation Art

• used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time

• MEBUYAN’S VESSEL, 2023 |  Leeroy New San Juan, La Union

Assemblage

• by assembling different elements

• often everyday objects

• scavenged by the artist or bought specially.

• ALTAR OF THE ORACLE, 2020 | Glenn Michael Sy Martinez

Performance Art

• created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted.

• ENCLOSE, 2005 | Bea Camacho

Site Specific

Characteristics of Contemporary Art

• to have a direct relationship to a specific location where it is seen 

• or experienced.

• Beached "Whale" Art On The Shores Of Naic, 

  • Cavite  Greenpeace And Advertising Agency Dentsu Jayme Syfu

  • An installation art depicting a dead whale with a mouth full of plastic waste went viral in 2017, highlighting the need to address the plastic pollution problem in the Philippines.

  • The material used to create the installation was plastic waste fished from the ocean.

Collaborative

Characteristics of Contemporary Art

• not limited to fellow artists but can include the whole community from a specific area.

• Karnabal, 1992 

  • Salingpusa Art Group

  • 16 artists, Pinto Art Museum

  • Acrylic on canvas

  • An eight-panel mural depicting social malaise (discomfort, illness, or uneasiness)

Process-based

Characteristics of Contemporary Art

• focuses on the actual experience and process of creation itself rather than the final product or outcome.

  • The Dance Seemed To Be Going On The Right Down Deep On Its Own Flesh | Jigger Cruz

  • Automatism

    • refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process.

Interactive

Characteristics of Contemporary Art

• any type of art that involves the viewer in the creative process. 

• challenges the traditional boundary between the artist and the “audience.”

• Art In Island  in Quezon City 

Integrative

Characteristics of Contemporary Art

• aka Integrated Arts is used to describe interdisciplinary art, art study, development, production, display, or creative creation of work that fully combines two or more disciplines of art to produce a work for a specific audience

• Mactan, Cebu International Airport

Appropriation

• artists take existing images, objects, or ideas and use them in a new way to create their own work.

• involves changing, combining, or reinterpreting them to explore new meanings, question originality, or challenge cultural ideas

Homage

Artists pay tribute to other artists to express admiration and gratitude and acknowledge their influence on their artistic journey.

Creative Expression

• uses existing materials in creating art to challenge an idea, change its meaning, or persuade others.

Copyright

• legal protection extended to the owner of the rights in an original work. 

• “Original work” refers to intellectual creation in the literary, scientific, and artistic domain.

The Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Act No. 8293)

• literary and artistic works are protected during the author's life and for 50 years after their death."

Fair Use

• the fair use of a copyrighted work for criticism, comment, news reporting, and teaching, including limited copies for classroom use, scholarship, research, and similar purposes, is not an infringement of copyright. (Section 185.1, Intellectual Property Code)

copyright infringement | noun

the use or production of copyright-protected material w/o the permission of the owner

infringe | verb

• to actively break the terms of a law or agreement

Cultural exploitation

the appropriation of elements of a subordinated culture by a dominant culture without substantive reciprocity, permission, compensation, understanding, or appreciation.

Proper Approach and Mindset When utilizing Indigenous Textiles and Attires

1. Consider the proper contextual usage of each garment. 

2. Secure the consent of the indigenous people.

3. Ensure fair compensation is given to artists and weavers.

4. Be ethical and mindful before purchasing products.