This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investigates a different aspect of citizenship, such as identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities, bodies and materials, agencies and spaces, and limitations and interventions. It rewrites and rethinks the many-layered concept of citizenship by emphasising the performative tensions produced by various uses, occupations, interpretations and framings.

KULTURA, SINING AT IBA PA aims to address art as expression of a people’s culture. The many art forms shall be featured, analyzed, and discussed. It will address the many ways of seeing art through the lenses of artists and art scholars, as determined by many factors such as government direction, art market, religion, indigenous knowledge, popular culture, and the ways of life of the people in the communities where they are created and produced.

Brenda V. Fajardo, a Professor Emerita of the University of the Philippines, taught art at the Department of Art Studies, UP Diliman. She finished her M.S. in Art Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and completed her PhD in Philippine Studies at the UP Diliman. A practitioner of visual arts and theater, she has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her works are in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan.; Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Singapore Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Her works were recently exhibited at the “Asian Women Exhibition” held at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the 1081 REVIEW held at the CCP Main Gallery, and the “Triumph of Philippine Art” held at the George Segal Gallery at the University of Montclair, New Jersey. Dr. Brenda co-founded the Philippine Art Educators Association (PAEA, 1967) and other art and culture organizations such as KASIBULAN, and BAGLAN Art Initiatives for Community Development. She was awarded the GAWAD CCP for Visual Arts in 2012.

In 2014, New York-based artist Lois Conner gifted one of pioneering Chinese artist Zhang Peili’s last paintings to The Australian National University’s newly opened Australian Centre on China in the World. Never exhibited and thought lost, the reemergence of Flying Machine (1994) prompts an exploration of the relation between painting and video in the oeuvre of Zhang Peili. Given Zhang’s significance as a leading conceptual painter in the 1980s, then as a media art pioneer and educator in the 1990s and 2000s, Zhang Peili: From Painting to Video is also a nuanced study of broader developments in Chinese contemporary art’s history. Featuring contributions by historian Geremie R. Barmé, photographer Lois Conner, art historians John Clark, Katie Grube, and Olivier Krischer, and curator Kim Machan, these essays together challenge the narrative of Zhang as ‘the father of Chinese video art’, highlighting instead the conceptual consistency, rigour, and formal experimentation in his work, which transcends a specific medium. By equal measure, the book embraces longstanding connections as integral to its meaning, connections between artists, curators and researchers, collaborators, colleagues and friends through China and Australia. DOI: http://doi.org/10.22459/ZP.2019