de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas (screening and online video exhibition)
Screening at MCAD Manila – Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, February 8, 2024
Available to view on KADIST.tv, February 19 to March 15, 2024
Jaja Arumpac, Jes Fan, Juno B & Jonas Van, Karthik Pandian, Maria Estela Paiso, Rox Lee, Thaís Espaillat Ureña, and Wing Po So
The screening takes place at and in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) in Manila, the Philippines. It is co-curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel and Lara Acuin and considers the research hypothesis of de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas in its current iteration: exploring the potential and tracing the presence of the aesthetics tools and strategies of repetition, fugue, and transmutation and how it resonates within the artistic community in Manila and MCAD’s audience.
The program will be available on KADIST.tv from February 19 – March 15, 2024. This collaboration is part of a series of public programs for de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas, curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel on view at KADIST through February.
Lara Acuin (b. 1986, Manila) is a writer and cultural worker. She has contributed exhibitions, collections, and curatorial work and support to various projects locally and overseas. She teaches arts management at the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde and is a graduate student at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Yina Jiménez Suriel (b. 1994, La Vega. Lives and works in Santiago, Dominican Republic) is a curator and researcher and the TBA21–Academy The Current IV Curatorial Fellow, a three-year research project entitled otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua. She is the Adjunct Curator of the 14th Mercosul Biennial (2024), and Associate Editor of the magazine Contemporary And (C&) for Latin America and the Caribbean. Her curatorial projects include Vehículos. Una revisión (2018) at Casa Quien (Dominican Republic); one month after being known in that island (2020) at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (Switzerland) curated with the artist Pablo Guardiola and co-produced by Caribbean Art Initiative; and the first chapter of the research project de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas (2022) at Pivô (Brazil) and Cinemateca Dominicana (Dominican Republic) co-produced with KADIST. She was in residence at the Delfina Foundation, London (Summer 2022). She is part of the curatorial team for Opening at ArcoMadrid (2023-2024) and has contributed to various international art publications and artist catalogs.
The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) A non-collecting art institution under the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde that considers the larger ecosystem of the Philippine art scene, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila presents exhibitions, learning, and publications programs; as well as other cultural and art-inspired undertakings in collaboration with local and international artists and institutions to amplify engagement with contemporary art in particular, and art and culture in general. Since its establishment in 2008, the museum has helped create interest in the manifoldness of the practice, production, presentation, and interpretation of contemporary art, leading to more recognition of the vitality of Asia and the Philippines.