HOHOL (Hang Out Hang Out Lang)
June 15 – August 17, 2024
Exhibition, Music, Opening/Launch, Panel Discussion, Reading, Screening
About the Program
HOHOL (Hang Out Hang Out Lang) is a project presented by artists and curators Patrick Cruz and Christian Vistan with grunt gallery. Comprising a group exhibition at grunt and a series of artworks and programs in venues and other cultural spaces for the Filipino community throughout Vancouver, HOHOL gathers Filipino contemporary artists from across the diaspora and puts them in dialogue with each other and the 1996 exhibition at Plug In, ICA in Winnipeg, Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Art, an early reference and inspiration for HOHOL. HOHOL brings together these artists to reflect on their shared and individual contexts and personal histories and to continue to think through themes and questions of diasporic and postcolonial Filipino identities and practices. The exhibition features artworks by Christopher Baliwas, Trisha Baga, Patrick Cruz, Ella Gonzales, Ramolen Laruan, Lani Maestro, Manuel Ocampo, Christian Vistan, Thea Yabut, and a text by Patrick Flores.Events include an artist panel at Emily Carr University of Art and Design's Reliance Theatre on June 15, 2024 with Christopher Baliwas, Patrick Cruz, Ella Gonzales, Ramolen Laruan, Christian Vistan and Thea Yabut—conversations about HOHOL, abstraction, and identity in relation to the artists' practices; Hele ng Simbang Gabi (Lullaby of the Night Mass) at Redgate Art Society on June 21, 2024 with Atras Abante, Patrick Cruz, IHA, Miguel Maravilla, Kiel Torres, Christian Vistan, and dj Zygote—an evening of readings, sound performances, and music bringing together artists, writers, musicians, and DJs to give sound and voice to diasporic affects and archives; and Pagbalik sa Takipsilim (Return to Twilight) at the Cinematheque on July 25, 2024—a screening of Four Short Films (2014-2023) by Miko Revereza and Kidlat Tahimik’s Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III (2015) exploring personal, fictional, and historical stories of Filipino migrants, expatriates, and balikbayans.
Artist
Trisha Baga, Christopher Baliwas, Patrick Cruz, Ella Gonzales, Ramolen Laruan, Lani Maestro, Manuel Ocampo, Christian Vistan, Thea YabutWriter
Patrick FloresIdentifier
2024.0615 HOHCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
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Reliance Theatre
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1A7
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
Redgate Art Society
1965 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 3C1
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
The Cinematheque
1131 Howe St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6Z 2K8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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