Output components
Lav Diaz: Journeys exhibition: gallery installation of a rotating programme of six films of extended duration by Diaz, film theatrical screening, conversation series, symposium, January 27 – March 12, 2017
Journal article, ‘Exhibiting Lav Diaz’s long films: Currencies of circulation and dialectics of spectatorship,’ in Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, special issue on “long duration”, vol 4, no 2, 2017, pp411– 433
Journal article, ‘Long walk to life: The films of Lav Diaz,’ Afterall Journal, autumn/winter 2015, pp102 –115
Roles
Researcher, lead curator, coordinator, writer
London Gallery West, and Regent Street Cinema, University of Westminster
Lav Diaz (artist), Hazel Oracio (facilitator), Michael Mazière (London Gallery West curator), Julian Ross (project co-curator), George Clark (project co-curator), Aviva Leeman (London Gallery West producer), Asian Film Archive (film lending), Second Run (film lending), Films Boutique (distributor). Screening at Regent Street Cinema organised in partnership with film streaming platform MUBI, and in collaboration with the Austrian Film Archive
British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Scheme, ‘Comparing experimental cinemas’, with Shai Heredia (Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology), 2013, £10,000 (reference number PM130146)
University of Westminster, Strategic Research Fund, Long Films in the Gallery, 2017, £8,000 (competitive award, reference number HM114430)
| Creators | Ingawanij, M.A. |
|---|---|
| Description | Lav Diaz: Journeys (2017) deploys the university arts spaces (London Gallery West, Regent Street Cinema), as differentiated from film festival or highly commercial film venues, to adapt the migratory model of exhibiting radical films and artists’ moving image. Ingawanij and collaborators created a hybrid space, a pop-up cinema and Southeast Asian curatorial space, to present Diaz’s works, accompanied by public programmes and an archival theatrical presentation. Underpinning the curatorial method is an understanding of histories and practices of artistic and participatory agency in contexts of fragile and at-risk arts infrastructure, and attentiveness to the legacy of artistic and cultural vanguardism in the Philippines. Ingawanij’s curation also draws inspiration from Southeast Asian genealogies of performative practices, informality as curatorial praxis, and spectatorial participation and experience. Her first article explores the aesthetic and political forms of Diaz’s long films. The second analyses the vexed exhibition history of Diaz’s long films, critically highlighting the tensions shaped by the persistence of the western modernist paradigm of art film spectatorship in advocating the value of global contemporary art or radical films, especially through the idea of “slow cinema”. The project generated multiple insights into the values and potentiality of Diaz’s films: ambiguities of anticolonial nationalist legacies in contemporary artistic praxis; sociality of durational forms and spectatorial labour routed through specific regional and/or national genealogies; porosity of film curation and participatory spectatorship. |
| Portfolio items | Lav Diaz: Journeys |
| Exhibiting Lav Diaz's Long Films: Currencies of Circulation and Dialectics of Spectatorship | |
| Long Walk to Life: the Films of Lav Diaz | |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | University of Westminster |
| Web address (URL) | https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/lav-diaz-journeys |
| Keywords | Lav Diaz, curation, spectatorship, world cinema |
| CREAM Portfolio | |
| Funder | Strategic Research Fund, University of Westminster |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.34737/qvw88 |