Jong Pairez

NU+MAN presents "Disconnected Joints" featuring Dada Docot and Jong Pairez video, photo, installations OPENING 5PM until 11PM, March 20, 2008 (Thursday) this is a one-day-only FREE! exhibition A multi-site project that features works by Filipino artists in international mobility launches on March 20 in Tokyo. This is the beginning of a continuous project that invites Filipino artists to hold exhibitions in their respective country of residence. Works are to discuss issues that comprise, surround and penetrate mobility, and that translate the experiences of the Filipino artist as a migrant. Called "Disconnected Joints," this first self-curated exhibition presents multimedia installations by Dada Docot and Jong Pairez. Dada Docot, a masters graduate of the University of Tokyo, who has combined random concepts about gender with the visual, is showing a video documentation of a performance staged at Shinagawa train station. In her work, she provides a critique of the general attitude of Japanese society towards foreigners in the country, highlighting an instance of racial profiling on a particularly "normal" day in Tokyo. Meanwhile, in reference to psychogeography and unitary urbanism, Jong Pairez, a migrant and dropout of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, will present photographs of detourned postal boxes around Tokyo. In his work, the idea is to utilize the urban landscape's existing signs and symbols as an expression of resisting control and surveillance that targets mostly migrants and refugees. The exhibit is presented by Nu+man Collective. To get to Poetry in the Kitchen, take the JR Chuo Line, get off at Iidabashi Station, East Exit. Climb the footbridge to cross the street and walk along the left side of the expressway. Keep on walking, follow this map and find the following address: http://disconnectedjoints.kulturavolunteers.org




Jong Pairez 2005