Integrating the Local

and the Contemporary

What is meant by "local" and what can it be used to the contemporary
arts?
The phrase "local" designates items used that are readily available from the
artist's local environment. These materials are not just integrated to tangible
objects but also into performance arts, rituals, etc.
• Santa Rosa City – Coconuts
• Cabuyao City – Mixed crops
• Ilocos Province – Tabungaw
Diokno Pasilan
• A Negros native who is a neo-ethnic musician, director, and performer
He grew up in the Philippines island of Palawan
• Art produce includes: painting, installation, video,
performance, and music
• He received a Diploma of Fine Arts from the Western
Australian School of Art, Design, and Media in 2002.

For Pasilan, local involves various places such as Baguio, Bicol,

Palawan and Victoria, Western Australia (where he resettled).
For him, local can mean interacting and immersing with the
host community. His artworks include:
3rd Bagasbas Beach International Environmental Art Festival

Held on Bagasbas Beach Front, Camarines

Norte in the Bicol Region in 2010
Agnes Locsin
• Received the Gawad Tanglaw ng Lahi (2014) considered as one
of the most progressive choreographers in the country.
• Davao based choreographer who used the techniques of
modern dance to reinterpret a component of the Moriones Holy
Week Festival of Marinduque.

What is “The Moriones?”

Narrates a story of Longino’s

conversion to Christianity upon
healing of his blindess by the
dying Jesus.
The Moriones
• Performed in France (as Ballet Philippines’s entry to the Recontres
Festival Du Danse) by male dancers moving “Serra Pelada” by Philip Glass.
• The dance reinterprets the story through costumes and movements not
associated with classical ballet and folk