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A deep space adventure
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - July 7, 2006 - 12:00am
It all started with an e-mail just after New Year’s. After seeing my work together with other Filipino visual artists, AIT (Arts Initiative Tokyo) invited me over to do an artist residency in Tokyo – complete...
The many corners of Japan
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - June 30, 2006 - 12:00am
June 25, 2006 Dear Diary, Two months in Tokyo is too long; I need a time out, quick. Yason
All things – plus the sun and me – must go away
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - March 31, 2006 - 12:00am
Summer is here, and so is April Fool’s – time to let out the inner trickster and let go of material excess.
Wrestling with wrestling
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - March 17, 2006 - 12:00am
Back in grade school, I would often find myself rolling in the football field like a wild pig in heat; this was in the evening (and not in the act of copulating), hours after dismissal time. Instead of agonizingly...
Movie queens, have mercy on us
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - March 10, 2006 - 12:00am
Cinema creates nation, the spectators its citizens. Inside the movie house we all sit silently and partake in a community ritual: we see visual cues, follow the narrative, understand ideas, and formulate ones ourselves....
Kitty’s anti-social calendar
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - February 24, 2006 - 12:00am
February being the National Arts Month, there were plenty of artsy fartsy options that occupied adventurous couples and predatory singles in Mondo Manille. As I am somewhere in-between the two status (among other...
Erase errata
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - February 10, 2006 - 12:00am
February 4 is our September 11. It is abject poverty and media spectacle combined to form a different kind of drama, of symbolic violence and despair, and of death: a real sacrificial slaughter of the masses and...
We are the happy new grrrr robots
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - January 20, 2006 - 12:00am
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. – Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonngeut Jr.
Top 25 ‘OO’ art triumphs of 2005
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - January 6, 2006 - 12:00am
(Conclusion) 10. Back From the Dredd, Karen Kunawicz and Hank Palenzuela, Big Sky Mind
Top 25 ‘00’ art triumphs of 2005
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - December 30, 2005 - 12:00am
Christmas is the only season where you can see a site-specific art installation in every corner of the city. My two favorite "public galleries" to spot "light sculptures" are Gilmore Avenue in...
Pinoy, guising!
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - November 25, 2005 - 12:00am
Next week, I shall be celebrating my one-year anniversary-back-in-the-Philippines. How have I fared so far? Family and friends – excellent; art – very good; work – good; love – fair; sex –...
Pinoy, guising!
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - November 25, 2005 - 12:00am
Next week, I shall be celebrating my one-year anniversary-back-in-the-Philippines. How have I fared so far? Family and friends – excellent; art – very good; work – good; love – fair; sex –...
Alien romancing
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - October 14, 2005 - 12:00am
A reason to wake up and live." That’s what you used to say as you rose from the bed and grabbed the nearest cigarette. "With every cigarette, I have a companion for five minutes," she replied...
Tasks about anything
by SLEEPWALKING By Yason Banal - September 2, 2005 - 12:00am
‘Anonymity’ If in portraiture the camera hones its sharp focus against face. If the subject looking back must be flash-frozen, cornered, dead-centered. If to be recognized means the head must strain...
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