Lecture by Tengal Drilon about contemporary art and new media art events in south east Asia mainly focused on situation in the Philippines. Tengal is Manila-based interdisciplinary media artist, composer-musician, curator-producer, and filmmaker. His work puts the focus on direct experience, risk-taking and personal interaction between artists and audience, and emphasizes the situational potential of live performance, the interplay of various media – sound and image, in particular – and candid exchange between sub-cultural and academic initiatives. In 2005, he founded SABAW Media Art Kitchen – a not-for-profit, artist-run umbrella organization and network platform for all kinds of information and communication carried via modern electronic media art focused specially in the region of South East Asia. Since then, SABAW has been producing concerts, workshops, inter-artist dialogues and forums, music albums, festivals for new media art, and experimental music and live cinema performances — most notably “Sinemusikalye”, a 50-feet audio-video installation-street-concert for the National Arts Month of The National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) in the Philippines; “Transmissions Gangan”, an audio-video performance for 5 radio channels on an interactive space with California electro-acoustic composer Chris Brown; “Fete dela Wasaque — festival for outerfringe art”, and most recently “ASEUM.09: Asia-Europe New Media Art Symposium” and “EAR2EYE: festival for cutting-edge music and moving image.
