Wrapped Traces

Wrapped: Koganecho, Yokohama

2011-08-22T18:45:00.000-07:00

Wrapped Traces Koganecho
Yokohama, Japan

Work in progress
小串スタジオ [Ogushi Studio]

http://www.koganecho.net/koganecho-bazaar-2011/

location http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=204348355304951368798.000489578735ce40dd51d

Wrapped: Pittsfield, Massachusetts

2011-08-07T19:31:00.000-07:00

Ongoing project at the corner of North and Summer streets, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Thanks to Ferrin Gallery, Storefront Artist Projects

Wrapped: Singapore

2011-08-07T19:07:00.000-07:00

Wrapped: Singapore Biennale
Singapore Art Museum 8Q
http://www.singaporebiennale.org/

Wrapped:Gunsan

2011-08-07T17:47:00.000-07:00

Wrapped:Gunsan, 2010
Gunsan South Korea

Wrapped project by Mark Salvatus

2009-05-05T07:57:00.001-07:00

Wrapped: Kuala Lumpur

2009-01-25T19:48:00.001-08:00

Annexe Gallery, Central Market
Thanks to Pang Khee Teik

Wrapped: Shatana, Jordan

2009-01-02T00:50:00.000-08:00

Shatana, Jordan
Thank you to Makan Art Space, Amman, Jordan
http://makanhouse.net/

Wrapped:Bangkok

2008-11-05T06:59:00.001-08:00

Wrapped: Bangkok exhibition at Nospace

2008-11-01T13:36:00.000-07:00

exhibition of Wrapped documentations
Video and photographs
2008

Wrapped: Bangkok

2008-10-29T01:51:00.000-07:00

Wrapped:Traces, Bangkok, Thailand
No Space Gallery
special thanks to Bank and Yoko Sakamoto
http://www.nospacebkk.com/

Wrapped

2008-08-17T08:22:00.001-07:00

Wrapped video documentation, 2007
by Mark Salvatus

exhibited at
*IASK (National Arts Studio, Goyang, South Korea, 2007
*Grand Atrium, Shangri-la, Plaza, Mandaluyong, Philippines, 2008
*Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines 2008

Wrapped-Traces

Mark Salvatus

Collaborative/Site-Specific project

Ateneo Art Awards 2008 Exhibit

Grand Atrium of the Shangri-la Plaza, EDSA cor Shaw, Mandaluyong, Philippines

August 1-11, 2008

by Flaudette May V. Datuin

http://ctrlp-artjournal.org/

On their pots and on their statues and faces, the Yoruba carvers incise lines of varying direction, depth, and length, and leave them to scar over to serve as markers of lineage, status and personal allure. But there is more to lines that this, according to the anthropologist R.F. Thompson, via Clifford Geertz: The Yoruba associate line with civilization. “This country has become civilized,” literally means in Yoruba: “This earth has lines upon its face.” (http://hypergeertz.jku.at/GeertzTexts/Art_Cultural.htm).

I am reminded of the civilizing quality of lines when I first saw Mark Salvatus’ performance of Wrapped-Traces in South Korea, via its video documentation, which showed Salvatus – who was on a 2007 residency (International Artist Studio Korea) in Gogol-si, Goyang, about one hour away from Central Seoul, South Korea - requesting passersby to trace the outline of objects they had with them on a wall of a small structure that was scheduled for demolition, and proceeded to scar, cover, wrap and mummify these outlines with pencil. This ritual has since been re-enacted in Barcelona in Spain, Quiapo and Angono in the Philippines in 2007 and most recently, in a posh mall in Manila for the 2008 Ateneo Art Awards Exhibit.

As the cliché goes, the handwriting is on the wall for communities like Gogol; they have to be knocked down to give way to ritzy, new cities. Salvatus’ memorializing project performs and renders the cliché literal. In his statement, he says he seeks to make “a kind of history in Gogol where people around the community are part of recording and history-making using their everyday object as proof of that time.” But ironically at first glance, he seeks to preserve these objects by hiding and covering their identity and “real character.” But perhaps, like the lines on Yoruba earth, these rapt, repetitive, precise almost manically drawn lines do not conceal, let alone disfigure the face of objects and the surface on which they are drawn; instead they reveal new patterns, paths, and byways “allowing inner qualities of the substance to shine forth,” as Thompson puts it. So much so that when future archaeologists unearth these artifacts, they will not only find pleasure in the lines’ intrinsic properties, but pleasure in finding traces of loss, living and leaving in patches of soon-to-be-extinct civilizations.

Flaudette May V. Datuin is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines and founding chair of the House of Comfort Art Network, Inc (ART HOC). She is the author of Home Body Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts, 19th Century to the Present (University of the Philippines Press, 2002). The book is based on her dissertation for her PhD in Philippines Studies degree.

Datuin is the recipient of the Asian Scholarship Foundation and Asian Public Intellectual Fellowships, which enabled her to conduct research on contemporary women artists of China and Korea in 2002-2003, and Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan in 2004-2005. She is currently curating and organizing an international and interdisciplinary exhibit-conference-workshop called trauma, interrupted to be held in Manila in 2007.

Datuin currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the contemporary arts of Asia, art theory and aesthetics, gender issues in the arts, and special topics on hypermedia and art, among others.

Wrapped @ the 2008 Ateneo Art Awards

2008-07-27T20:55:00.000-07:00

On August 1, 2008 - I will be doing my Wrapped:traces project from 11am-8pm at the Grand Atrium of the Shangri-la Plaza, EDSA cor Shaw, Mandaluyong. everyone is invited to participate!
Wrapped is part of the Ateneo Art Awards 2008 exhibition.
text or call 09108929904 or email markrams@yahoo.com

Wrapped:traces is an ongoing project- checkout this link http://wrappedtraces.blogspot.c om/
Ateneo Art Awards 2008

Wrapped:Bandung (Jiplak-Bandung, Indonesia)

2008-07-27T05:08:00.000-07:00

Wrapped: Site-specific project, 2008
Bandung, Indonesia
thanks to Takoer, Arts & Design Dean Imelda, and to the professors & students of STISI and STSI

check the project description here http://wrappedtraces.blogspot.com/

Wrapped:traces is an ongoing project that I am doing in different places and communities around the world
Manila / Angono / Seoul / Barcelona / Bandung

Wrapped:Traces at the 4th Neo-Angono Public Arts Festival, 2007

2008-03-20T04:21:00.000-07:00

It's a WRAP!

There is no better proof to reality than belief. With this, as a possible prologue, Mark Salvatus began a collaborative event. A project wherein random participants would withdraw objects at the moment they have been equipped, then parallel it vertically flat to urban surfaces as they trace silhouettes on to it, forming a platoon of empty shapes, These then will play as cavities for the artist to fill with renderings identical to that of a mummy's face or torsos constricted under casts. And just like a mask, these patterns hide, while simultaneously provide a statement of presence, expression, and story.
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If gazes are contained within these voids, it's typical logic to treat such barren landscapes as barren landscapes. Intelligence tends to immediately dismiss ideas of an empty oasis-

But should it be defined through obscurity, or concealment, or at least the faintest taunt of water, conclusions would thus retard from such rapid negligence. Salvatus' performance, blended with the audience's, now then progresses and regresses into a public guessing game among the people who helped it grow. Though the fusion of scales, shapes and familiarities would let answers have itself announced, visuals, as a fraction, can only show so much of an idea. Hence, personal interpretations.

Before things end up solved and start to descend, let's call it a wrap, destined to be opened with the hands in our heads.

Text by Tad Pagaduan

Acknowledgements:
Wire Tuazon, Auggie Fontanilla, Jan Michael Reyes, Jon Santos, Richard Gappi and the people of Angono who participated in the project

4th Neo-Angono Public Arts Festival

Wrapped:Traces, Golden Mosque, Globo de Oro, Manila, 2007

2008-03-20T04:20:00.000-07:00

Wrapped: Traces project - work in progress
Golden Mosque, Globo de Oro, Quiapo, Manila

"Wrapped" is an ongoing project, collecting and dissecting individual memories using personal objects as a sign of attachement to material things. This site-specific and collaborative work with the help of the people in certain community is like archiving time with the use of the things they have on that moment. Wrapping is like preserving, leaving traces from the personal belongings of the people, I like to leave a trace or mark without knowing its identity or feature, by just leaving its outline and wrapping it with the use of wrapped patterns. By making use of ephemeral drawings (on the wall) I hope to arouse the public’s curiosity and for that curiosity to manifest itself into questions concerning their environment.

Embolicat (Wrapped), Adjuntament de El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain

2008-03-20T04:17:00.000-07:00

Embolicat (Catalan) - Wrapped Traces: El Bruc
Site specific/participatory project
Drawings on the wall / pencil
2007

presented by Can Serrat Centro de Actividades Artisticas Barcelona

"Wrapped" is an ongoing project that I started when i had my residency in Korea http://marksalvatus.blogspot.com/2007/06/wrappedtrace-project-skorea.html the second "wrapped" installment was done outside a Mosque in Manila http://marksalvatus.blogspot.com/2007/07/wrappedtraces-golden-mosque-globo-de.html. For this project in Barcelona, I asked the people from El Bruc to trace their objects and personal belongings on the walls of El Bruc town hall... with those traces I will fill it with wrapped patterns like preserving each objects in 2d way. Hiding its individual identity, the project also became a guessing game for the viewers...

Supported by
Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation
Spanish Embassy, Manila
Adjuntament del Bruc Regidoria de Cultura

Embolicat (Wrapped), El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain

2008-03-20T04:14:00.000-07:00

Wrapped exhibition, Goyang Art Studio Gallery, Korea

2008-03-20T04:13:00.000-07:00

Wrapped Traces, Goyang, Seoul, South Korea

2008-03-20T04:05:00.000-07:00

“Wrapped:TRACES”

by Mark Salvatus
Collaborative / Site Specific project (2007)
Drawings on the wall (pencil)

Patterns on the images on the house means covering the identity of the object (like wrapping around with cloth or paper like the Egyptians did on their mummies) I want to preserve its form or figure but hiding its real character or feature (so its like a guessing game what kind of object is that). With the help of ordinary people around the community of Gogol, I ask them to TRACE their personal belongings and want them to preserve it as evidence, a record or proof and then drawing it with wrapped patterns on a house-like structure (like the cavemen recording their everyday lives). I am making a kind of history in Gogol were people around the community are part of recording and history-making using their everyday object as proof of that time. Since a lot of developments now on full swing in Korea, small towns are being knocked down for a new and posh city. I want to make a marker before Gogol will be developed into a new and ritzy city, a marker that the community is part of the making

Acknowledgements:

International Artist Studio Korea Goyang & Changdong, National Comission for Culture and the Arts, UST Graduate School, Sim, Gyu-hwan, Park, Ja-hyun, Kim, Man-ho, Lee, Jung-hee, Kang, Sang-gu, Lee, Moo-ha, Mr. Lim, Gabriele Horndasch, Song, Myung-jin, Nyamkhuu, Baatar, Goyang studio 3rd season artists and the Local community of Gogol, Goyang, Korea