Exploring childrens expressions of PEACE.

reposting this from my cousin Teng Mangansakan's website:

I am exhibiting a video installation Unsa ang Dagway sa Kalinaw? Ngin i palas a Kalilintad? Ano ang anyo ng Kapayapaan? at the newly opened MCAD, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Desat the College of St. Benilde, De La Salle University system, P. Ocampo St., Pasay City.

 The exhibition an accompanying symposium on Designing Peace: The Role of the Imagination in Conflict Resolution will be held on the 5th of February 2009.

My work is an exploration of the forms, shapes and faces that Peace assumes in children’s imagination across areas devastated by armed conflict in Mindanao. I visited schools in Central Mindanao and asked the pupils one basic question: Ano ang anyo ng Kapayapaan? From blank pieces of paper, there emerged myriad expressions of hopes, dreams and aspirations for a peaceful Mindanao –free of violence, conflict and constant fear.