Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 Presentation — The First Exhibitions by Renan Laru-an

Synopsis

In recent years, the standard of exhibition-making in contemporary visual art as well as in creative platforms has “streamed” subjectivities and contexts in an unprecedented speed that turns art into data, information, and facts. Such well-intentioned commitments to communication and accessibility have seemingly prioritised content production and discourse management through works of art. With these conditions, how does the artistic resist the agency of “standard” exhibitions, and how does the curatorial facilitate the normalisation of new content regimes with or without art? Renan returns to the memories of his “first” exhibitions in order to engage with these questions.

About Renan Laru-an

A researcher, curator, and the artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, Renan creates exhibitions, public, and research programs that study ‘insufficient’ and ‘subtracted’ images or subjects at the juncture of development and integration projects. Since 2017, Renan has been the Public Engagement and Artistic Formation Coordinator of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN), a recently initiated public institution for contemporary art temporarily housed at the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum. He has (co-)curated the 2nd Biennale Matter of Art, Prague (2022); the 6th Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2019); the 8th OK. Video – Indonesia Media Arts Festival, Jakarta (2017); and other exhibitions.

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