From appropriating images from the media sphere and popular culture to making soap out of cooking oil recovered from the sewers of Manila, recipients of the CCP Thirteen Artists Awards (TAA) this year show how artists have ventured far from the traditional notions of art to respond to concerns of past, present and future.
Organized by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), the awards recognized recipients Allan Balisi, Nice Buenaventura, Gino Bueza, Mars Bugaoan, Rocky Cajigan, Geloy Concepcion, Patrick Cruz, Ian Carlo Jaucian, KoloWn, Czar Kristoff, Lou Lim, Ryan Villamael and Catherine Sarah Young.
This year’s selection committee was composed of Imelda Cajipe Endaya (Thirt…
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