Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Cabinet of Queeriosities, Art by Julius Poncelet Manapul, World Pride Toronto 2014.

Inspirational Sketches for the Installation by the Artist Julius Poncelet Manapul.



Cabinet of Queeriosities, Art by Julius Poncelet Manapul, World Pride Toronto 2014.

Saturday June, 21st to Friday June, 27th, 2014.
OPENING Saturday, June 21st, 7-10pm
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The Cabinet of Queeriosities (2014) is a new body of work by Philippine-born, Toronto-based visual artist Julius Poncelet Manapul. This artistic intervention will be located at Studio 386 (386 Ontario Street, just south-east of the Church Wellesley Village) during WorldPride 2014. Spanning three spaces of first floor of the Edwardian building, The Cabinet of Queeriosities consists of installation, sculpture, video projection, digital art, and mixed media works which interrogate the artist’s experiences of racialized queerness using visual vocabularies culled from colonial and Indigenous cultures in the Philippines, abstracted gay pornography, and found everyday objects.

Curated by Filipina Canadian artist and scholar Marissa Largo, this intervention will include various events that aim to engage the public in conversations on representation and queerness in the age of globalization and diaspora. An artist/curator talk and guided tour will provide opportunities to consider the experiences of queers of colour in the midst of mainstream representations proliferated by the Internet and popular culture.

The inclusion of Manapul’s work in this celebration of global queerness is important in communicating that queerness is not a universal experience, but it is mediated by race, class, culture, and other subjectivities. These are often unaccounted for by globalized discourses of queerness, which sometimes purport solidarity and pride at the expense of difference. Manapul’s artistic intervention in WorldPride is an assertion of his experiences from the margins of the margin in the global city.

The Art of Julius Poncelet Manapul
http://juliusmanapul.blogspot.ca/

Curated by Marissa Largo
www.marissalargo.com

WorldPride 2014 - Toronto
https://www.facebook.com/
WP14TO
 Allen Zhang of STUDIO 386 realstateinc@gmail.com
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GALLERY HOURS
Sunday: 12-5pm
Monday to Thursday: 10am-6pm
Friday, June 27th: 10am-5pm

ARTIST/CURATOR TALK
Tuesday, June 24th, 3-4pm

GUIDED TOUR
Thursday, June 26th: 3-4pm

CLOSING EVENT
Friday, June 27th: 7-10pm


Friday, April 18, 2014

Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.


Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.


Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.


Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.


Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.


Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.




Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.


Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.


Butterfly Series, Digital Collage, Gay Porn Images by Julius Poncelet Manapul, 2014.