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19 February - 9 April 2021
Organized by the Public Engagement and Artistic Formation of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN), “But Ears Have No Lids” is part of a year-long screening program on hearing(s). The series of online and offline presentations explores the nature and development of hearing in three amplitudes that call for the ears to pay attention: hearing as a field of “being touched”; the documentary agency of hearing; and hearing’s right or refusal to inform. Through the many morphologies and odysseys of attention, “But Ears Have No Lids” features artistic projects and conversations that sustain the value of keeping our ears uncontrollably open—after the disappearance of sight and hearing, and in the fact of loss and paranoia.
The first volume of screenings cites the concept of extraterritoriality through the practice of Tel Aviv-based artist duo Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela. In their films, “But Ears Have No Lids” examines the loss, migration, and representation of images in the lattice of legal, medical, and psycho-social conditions. The artists’ assemblage of the most minute, idiosyncratic, and provocative political facts nominates the values of artistic imagination and gesture in circulating attention. The works of Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela, accessed in the Philippine context, motivates a syncopated look at the rhythms of the world and how that might commit the experience of touch, whispers, and murmur in today’s political engagement.
This project is curated by Renan Laru-an.
“But Ears Have No Lids: Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela'' is made possible through the support of Artis, as part of the exhibition, “Proto/Para: Rethiking Curatorial Work” on view at the UP Vargas Museum’s 1/F and 3/F Galleries from 19 February - 09 April 2021 (Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/RcObHlqq). For inquiries, email us at [email protected] or follow us on our social media pages, facebook.com/vargasmuseum.upd on Facebook, @UPVargasMuseum on Instagram, and Twitter, and Vargas Museum UP Diliman on YouTube.
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Health and Safety Protocols:
In order to ensure viewers’ safety, the physical film screening program of “But Ears Have No Lids” will only accept one viewing party, consisting of a maximum of two (2) persons coming from a single household, in the Video Room per screening schedule. Viewers are not allowed to take off their masks while inside the Video Room. The seating areas in the room will be disinfected after each screening. Viewers may request a slot in advance through this link: bit.ly/ButEarsHaveNoLids. Reserving a film screening slot also automatically gives you a viewing slot to see the exhibition "Proto/Para: Rethinking Curatorial Work."
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Screening schedule
19 February - 25 February: Beyond Guilt – The Trilogy (2003 - 2005)
26 February - 4 March: Image Blockade (2015)
5 March - 11 March: Scenarios Preparations (2015)
12 March - 18 March: For the Record (2013) and The Witness (2012)
19 March - 25 March: Image Blockade (2015) and The Witness (2012)
26 March - 9 April: For the Record (2013) and Beyond Guilt – The Trilogy (2003 - 2005)
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About the artists
Maayan Amir‘s artworks have been shown internationally in exhibitions, including the Biennale of Sydney, the Istanbul Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, the New Museum Triennial, Centre Pompidou, Art in General (NY), Tate Modern, Jeu de Paume, Ludwig Museum, HKW, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. In 2009, she initiated together with Ruti Sela the long-term art project Exterritory, for which both artists won a Young Artists Award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO, 2011). She holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the editor of “Documentally” (2008), an anthology of essays on Israeli documentary cinema. She has curated numerous exhibitions and published essays in books and catalogs. She was a researcher on the Forensic Architecture project. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Arts Department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Throughout 2011, she was a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. She also edited the anthology “Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds” (Punctum Books 2016 with Ruti Sela). In 2020, Amir received the “Visual Culture Essay Prize” from the International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture.
Ruti Sela‘s artworks have been shown internationally in numerous exhibitions and venues, including the Biennale of Sydney, the Istanbul Biennial, the Berlin Biennial, Manifesta, the New Museum Triennial, Israel Museum, Centre Pompidou, Art in General (NY), Tel Aviv Museum, Tate Modern, Jeu de Paume, ZKM, Ludwig Museum, HKW, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. In 2009, she initiated together with Maayan Amir the long-term art project Exterritory, for which both artists won a Young Artists Award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, 2011). She studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, where she graduated with distinction and proceeded to the MFA program at the Tel Aviv University Film Department. She is the head of the Art Department at the Midrasha Art School and a lecturer at the Art Department, Haifa University. Throughout 2011 she was a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. A book about her works titled “For the Record” was published by Archive Books in 2014. She also edited the anthology “Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds” (together with Maayan Amir, Punctum Books 2016).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UP Vargas Museum, Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Roxas Avenue, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines