2069
Derek Tumala & Jose Tong
2018
The Drawing Room, Makati, PH
To speculate the future is to take into account the conditions of the present. Derek Tumala and Jose Tong’s exhibition, 2069, visualizes a trans-disciplinary approach in speculating dynamic and local-centric futures of Philippine society. Mounted in the form of a museum cum club, the exhibition probes the grip of Western technological advances on a postcolonial society and the endeavors of local capitalism that it fuels, through forensic, speculative and investigative aesthetics. Tumala and Tong set a prospect that invokes the pained future of Gregorio Brilliantes’ Apollo Centennial, a future envisioned as discordant against the grand narratives of science and development. What Brilliantes’ character Arcadio Nagbuya sees is a vision that is worryingly close to our times, a celebration of the bold, the new, and the shiny meant to colonize, to be consumed not utilized.
Derek Tumala & Jose Tong
2018
The Drawing Room, Makati, PH
To speculate the future is to take into account the conditions of the present. Derek Tumala and Jose Tong’s exhibition, 2069, visualizes a trans-disciplinary approach in speculating dynamic and local-centric futures of Philippine society. Mounted in the form of a museum cum club, the exhibition probes the grip of Western technological advances on a postcolonial society and the endeavors of local capitalism that it fuels, through forensic, speculative and investigative aesthetics. Tumala and Tong set a prospect that invokes the pained future of Gregorio Brilliantes’ Apollo Centennial, a future envisioned as discordant against the grand narratives of science and development. What Brilliantes’ character Arcadio Nagbuya sees is a vision that is worryingly close to our times, a celebration of the bold, the new, and the shiny meant to colonize, to be consumed not utilized.
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