Techniques & Performance Practices Applied

• Puni (Bulacan) - This is a popular Bulakenyo’s way of decorating using leaf fronds folding which has a Malayan origin.
• Straw Folding. In this art, the straws are folded by rolling elongated sheets of wax coated paper into cylindrical, hollow tubes.
• Origami is from ori meaning “folding”, and kami means “paper”. Origami is the art of paper folding that is associated to Japanese culture.
• Singkaban (Malolos, Bulacan) It is a decorated bamboo arch to welcome signage of a town, city or village in the country.
• Bamboo Art - it must undergo some processes such as cleaning and cutting, peeling, splitting, stripping or weaving it. For more detailed designs, artists use incising, burning, carving, and dyeing.
• Saniculas (Pampanga) cookies made with imprint of San Nicolas de Tolentino, the miracle healer according to Pampanga’s local legend.
• Polvoron Molder. This kitchen tool can help you mold the powder for polvoron into perfectly oval or round shapes (biscuit molder, doughnut molder)
• Pabalat (San Miguel, Bulacan) The art of making the pabalat or pastillas wrappers has transformed in recent years from being a local, folk tradition into a popular art.
• Packaging - can be simple and straight forward, or colorful and complex (decorated packaging).
• Paper Maché. Using molds, paper pieces or pulp are put together with a glue or other adhesives.
• Taka (Paete, Laguna) refers to the paper maché using carved wooded sculpture used as a mold.
• Pagbuburda (Taal, Batangas and Lumban, Laguna) Taal embroideries are characterized by fine design with delicate, embossed, durable and colorful patterns.
• Stitching - the basic elements of sewing, knitting or embroidery whether by hand or machine.
• Loom Bands. These are also called as rainbow looms which are a plastic tool used to weave colorful rubber and plastic bands into decorative items such as bracelets and charms.
• Nylon Bracelets. A tough light weight elastic synthetic polymer ornament band hoop or chain worn on the wrist.
• Minimalism - This is an artistic movement that seeks to take away unnecessary and leaving only the essential. The artworks that usually use this technique use a well selected material that is indispensable in art production.
• Found Objects - This means taking something that people seem to find useless and use it in a unique way in order to make an artwork. When people seem to think that something must be thrown away as junk, it is used to tell a story and create a diverse perspective that we are looking for.
• Large-scale Art - This is an art that accounts for the creation of something huge to express diverse perspectives in artwork. This art is created for public view.
• Musical

  • Description: use of rhythms, sounds, instrument, human voice
• Musical

  • Art form: music, poetry, song, dance, theatre artist
• Musical

  • Medium: musical instruments, traditional musical instruments made by local materials, body and movements, integration of stage, design, performance elements and script.
• Practical

  • Description: art with immediate use in daily life
• Practical

  • Art Form: designs, architect, sculptor
• Practical

  • Medium: cement, paper, bamboo, wood, bricks, stone, concrete, metal, wood, stone, clay, glass
• Environmental

  • Description: An art that occupies space
• Environmental

  • Art Form: installation, public art
• Environmental

  • Medium: wires, junk, recycled materials
• Pictorial Works

  • Description: uses shapes, pictures, graphics
• Pictorial Works

  • Art Form: painting, drawing, design, photography
• Pictorial Works

  •  Medium: camera, celluloids/negatives, processing chemicals prints
• Mark Salvatus' Secret Garden 2

  This art was created for a small room at the Vargas Museum to show a site -specific work. Being able to accommodate the audience and experience the "garden" makes the art interactive. It is also important to note that this secret garden was created with inmates who used plastic spoons, forks and other materials.

  Minimalism, Found objects.
• Interactive Games by Ikoy Ricio


  This artwork is composed of set of trump card with images of Philippine car wrecks, its body parts and details of accident.These cards are installed on the table with chairs for the players. Found objects.
• Untitled (Mirrors) by Maria Taniguchi


  This artwork used traditional medium of acrylic on canvas and traditional modern style of abstraction. Instead of typical painting, the artist used diligent brushwork that the painting encourages meditations apart from viewing. Large- Scale Art, Minimalism.
• Felix Bacolor's Waiting (2012)


  This space in Museum of Contemporary art and design is a simulation of a waiting room with real digital clocks and metallic immovable chairs. Large-Scale Art, Minimalism
• Anonymous Animals in Mariyah Gallery in Dumaguete 2013 (Taguchi,Teves, Sollesta,Vanlenzuela and Ranada)

  The excavated animals were presented with specific and scientific names and other important details for a real animal. Invented stories by curator make the animals seem to exist with embedded journalist/photographer. Large-Scale Art, Found objects
• Narrative

  • Description: based on story
• Narrative

  • Art Form: drama, novel, music and dance
• Narrative

  • Medium: language