11 April 2019

BALINTATAW: Artist Talk of Prof. Annie Lumbao


by Joseph Palis

Prof. Annie Lumbao of the UPD-College of Fine Arts presented her artistic and cartographically-inclined interventions on March 20, 2019 during the Geography Week 2019. Producing art works and installations that are geographically informed, Lumbao introduced Linescapes, Kaleidoscapes, and Waiting

Prof. Annie Lumbao highlights Linescapes.
In Linescapes, the urban structure is represented through a series of re-drawn power lines traversing through Metropolitan Manila. Representing both order and chaos, the linescapes are looped on video giving a mesmerizing and hypnotic feel. 

Kaleidoscapes stems from the same vein where complex power lines are made to resemble the fractal images of a kaleidoscope image.

Finally in her art installation called Waiting, which was mounted during midyear in 2018, Prof.  Lumbao combined her linescape video with contemporary dance at dusk time. The everyday and mundane aspect of waiting for transportation was interspersed with an almost magical dimension with the stylized movements of the two dancers, the effect of projected light in the waiting shed along University Avenue. 

View of the audience during the artist talk
Hosted by Christopher Deita, the artist talk drew students from the College of Fine Arts and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy.

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