Location: Citè Internationale des Arts, July 2013, Paris, France
Duration: 41:45
Musician: Adam Grauman
Instrument: Contrebasse / Double Bass Guitar
Olfactory Element in Performance Space: 10 sticks of Incense
Location: Tadu Contemporary Art Space, August 2013, Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 32:29
Musician: Numpark Sribanditmongkol (นำภาค ศรีบัณฑิตมงคล)
Instruments:
1. Saw Duang (ซอด้วง): it is a higher pitch one that he played for "wat po" and "traffic." Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_duang
2. Saw U (ซออู้): a lower pitch one for the rest of the pieces
Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_u
Olfactory Element in Performance Space: Scent from old car parts in the background
This two part performance piece is based on the theories of Free Improvisation in Music where no rules exist. It was orchestrated with the intention of creating shapes and reaching planes of higher thinking during the act of sculpting. It mimics the principles behind this genre of music in order to escape predetermined patterns and rituals in the practice of making objects. The performance highly relies on the movement of the String Musician's hand gestures which I interpret through the technique of Glass Flameworking.
The second part restages this performance in a different context and country, making use of a similar musical instrument but of Thai origin. For this piece, I collected 5 scents in Bangkok then asked the Musician to base different segments of the performance on the memories and emotions that arose while smelling each scent in order to change the mood within the duration of the performance
This body of work is about origin and the diversity of cultures yet seeks to convey an underlying Universal nature of Being despite cultural, geographic and language differences between people.
top photo by JL Javier, 2024
bottom photo by
Anna Frumenti, 2021
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Goldie Poblador is a visual artist who merges glass sculpture, performance, and video into multi-sensory installations that address themes of climate change and the emancipation of the female body.
Artist Biography
Goldie Poblador is a Filipina visual artist who creates multi-sensory installations that merge glass scent, sound and performance that address themes of ecology and decolonization as it relates to the emancipation of the female body.
Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally at such institutions as Artpace, The Corning Museum of Glass, Urban Glass, 601Artspace, The Knockdown Center, Saudi National Museum, The Rubin Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Fine Art Museum of Hanoi, Lopez Memorial Museum, Art Fair Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The National Museum of the Filipino People and The Cultural Center of the Philippines.
She is the first Filipino artist to be acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass. She has received grants from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the University of the Philippines, the Puffin Foundation and a President’s Scholarship from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has completed residencies at Artpace, the Corning Museum of Glass, Oakspring Garden Foundation, MASS MoCa, and the Cité International des Arts. She received her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines in 2009. In 2015, she obtained her MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Registered as Goldieland Studio / New York, NY