Contemporary Arts

• Conceptualism: prioritizes concepts or ideas over traditional aesthetic concerns
• Site-Specific and Contextual Art: some artworks are created specifically for particular locations or contexts, responding to the architectural, social, or historical characteristics of a place
• Collaboration and Participation: many artists collaborate with others, resulting in collective projects, participatory artworks, or interdisciplinary initiatives
• Experimentation and Innovation: characterized by a spirit of experimentation and innovation, with artists constantly pushing the boundaries of what art can be and how it can be created
• Globalization and Transnationalism: deeply influenced by globalization and the interconnectedness of cultures and societies around the world
• Subjectivity and Personal Expression: values individual expression and subjectivity, drawing on personal experiences, memories, emotions, and perspectives
• Critique of the Art World: some artists critique the institutions and practices of the art world itself, questioning hierarchies, power structures, and commercialization within the art market
• • Multimedia and Interdisciplinary Approaches: artists work across multiple mediums, blending traditional techniques with new technologies and materials
• Social and Political Commentary: artists engage with pressing social and political issues, using their work as a platform for commentary, critique, or activism
• Hybridity and Diversity: celebrates diversity and embraces hybrid forms, drawing inspiration from a wide range of cultural traditions, histories, and contexts
• Abaca belongs to Banana family.  Its fiber has a natural luster with colors ranging from pure white to ivory and dark brown.
• Bakbak is the outermost covering or leaf sheath of the abaca stalk.  It is a flat thick durable sheath as twine or braided.  The strong brown fiber used to make furniture.
• Coir is the fibrous material surrounding the fruit of the coconut tree.
• Pandan is a tropical plant.   It is processed and transformed into splints that are being used as raw material.
• Rattan belongs to the palm family. There are different types of rattan palms, such as high or low climbers, single stemmed or clustered rattan species.
• Buntal is a cylindrically shaped fibers. The supple ivory white strands are quite durable, pliable, and have good dyeing qualities.
• Bamboo is used a raw material in creating many products.  It is used in construction, textile, musical instruments, weapons, and many more
• Mixed media is a term used to describe artworks composed from a combination of different media or materials. A work on canvas that combines paint, ink, and collage could properly be called a "mixed media" work.
• New media art is a 21st Century catchall term used to define all that is related to the internet and the interplay between technology, images and sound.
• Improvisation in theater is the playing of dramatic scenes without written dialogue & with minimal or no predetermined dramatic activity.  
• Collage is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a 

  A term lifted from the French word for 'unstick', it is most commonly applied to artworks where an original image is cut, torn, or removed from its original content.
• Land art or earth art is art that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making structures in the landscape using natural materials such as rocks or twigs.
• Printmaking is an artistic process based on the principle of transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric.

  Traditional printmaking techniques include woodcut, etching, engraving, and lithography, while modern artists have expanded available techniques to include screenprinting