Jose Maceda Exhibit Series: A Curator’s Reflection

Abstract

This essay is an extended reflection on the Maceda exhibit series as a multifaceted project. It touches upon the issues of archive and archival management, knowledge production through exhibitions, and the experimental repositioning of music in exhibiting platforms. The Curator, who also plays the compound role of Archivist and Collections Manager of the Jose Maceda collection, rearticulates the curatorial decisions made in staging the exhibits in terms of intention and motivations of organizing institutions, the quality and content of the materials, choices of artists and the process of production, and quantity and diversity of audience.

An earlier and more compact version of this essay is included in Attitude of the Mind, an exhibit catalog published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines.