R I Z A M A N A L O I V I S U A L A R T I S T

S E L E C T E D W O R K S

Artist Statement

My body of work centers on relational transitivity, using various forms of digital media to create new meanings and representations through

conversation, interaction and collaboration. My work is an exploration of process and narrative that involves participation and dialogue with

diverse groups of people that relates to experiences attached to global migration, identity, memory and site. I am interested in the impact of

displacement and the arrival into a new place - the feeling of uncertainty in the space combined with unfamiliar collection of objects and

images that captures both isolation and eventual adaptation.

At present, my work is influenced by the experiences and issues related to mobile identities, hybridity and belonging. I am interested in

creating moments of similarities from the past to create a memory of space in the present.

The Sea is Present is a series of works that reflect the transitional nature of the sea. The sea as a site of cultural roots, historical memories and routes; a metaphor for time, distance

and change.

‘The Sea is Present’ #1 | 2012 | Single Screen Video Projection and Sound | Tasman Sea to Black Sea | 9:03 min loop

‘The Sea is Present ’#2 | 2012 | Participatory and Relational Work | 100 Postcards | Istanbul, Turkey

100 postcards with an image of the Tasman Sea were handed out to the locals to create interaction and participation resulting in conversations. The

postcards generated stories and narratives that related to memories of the sea. These postcards were part of daily conversations and interaction, sent from

Turkey back to Melbourne, daily by the artist. Currently the artist is in the process of creating a book using the text from the postcards.

‘The Sea is Present’ #3 | 2012 | Site - Specific Installation | Anchor, red dyed cotton, white acrylic paint and old anchor rope | Variable

The text from the postcards were transcribed onto the old anchor of an abandoned ship.

‘The Sea is Present’ #4 | 2012 | Site-Specific Installation, Single Channel HD Video and Sound (8:01 min loop) | Found objects | Variable

This work explores the theme of water in relation to memory, site and identity. The moving image of the Tasman sea in the video represents

the past, present and future crossings and connections. The collected objects consolidate different meanings between places; it represents

experiences related to global mobility, cultural displacement and the co-existence of cultural identities in a place.

‘6 days - 6 cups - 6 readings’ #5 | 2012 | Installation and Sound ( 20:00 min loop ) | Coffee cups, graphite, paper , 2 speakers and ground coffee | Variable

A set of six cups were brought over to Turkey from Australia and used for coffee cup readings. The artist engaged with the locals to seek out traditional coffee cup

readers and used the six cups with six different readers over a period of six days. The oral readings were recorded and used as a soundscape for the work, the used

cups, were preserved and exhibited as part of the installation.

‘Salvagenti’ # 1 | 2012 | Site-Specific Installation and Live Sound | 120 life jackets and torches, ship announcing system | 2 hour duration

‘Salvagente’ # 2 | 2012 | Site-Specific Installation | 200 Lifesavers | Variable

‘The Visitor’ | 2012 | Single - Screen Video Projection | Flinders Lane, Melbourne | 5:01 min loop

‘Waiting’ | 2012 | Four Channel Video Installation ( video stills) | four open frame monitors, media players | 5:03 min loop

‘Blue’ | 2012 | Single Channel Video Installation | Surveillance monitor and camera, media player, speakers, soil and tarpaulin | 6:03 min loop

‘Shed ’ | 2012 | Live Shadow Projection and Sound Installation | Two overhead projectors, media player, two speakers and dome tent structure | 2 hour duration

‘Where should the birds fly after the last sky? ’ | 2012 | Audio and Video Installation ( video stills) | 8:08 min loop

‘The Arrival ’ | 2012 | Live Performance, Installation and Sound | Car, twigs, oranges, bread, canned goods, camera and speakers | 2 hour duration

‘Sub-rosa ’ | 2012 | Audio Video Installation | Media player, projector, two speakers and rose petals | 5:05 min loop

‘Down Under ’ | 2011 | Audio and Video Installation | One projector, collected objects, scaffold, media player and speakers, live microphone | 8:03 min loop

‘The First Arrival | 2011 | Performance and Four Screen Video Projection ( video stills) | In collaboration with dance artist Janette Hoe | 8 :0 0 min lo op

‘Talk You Me’ | 2011 | 15 Channel Video Installation | 15 television monitors | 10:10 min loop

‘Ab se n tia’ | 20 11 | E xpe rimen tal D oc ume n tary Vide o (v ide o s ti l ls ) | 10 :05 mi n

‘W ha t’ s yo ur name aga in? ’ | 20 10 | T hre e S cre en Vid eo Pr ojec ti on (vi deo st i l l s ) | 7 :0 3 min l o op

‘W here a re y ou g oing ? ’ | 20 09 | Si ngle C ha nne l Vi deo I ns tal l a tio n ( v i deo st i l l ) | | 4: 40 min l oop

‘An I ns ta nce o f Wan de r ing’ | 2009 | I ns tal la ti o n a n d So un d | El as tic s , metal sp rin gs , c o ncre te an d recy cle d ru b be r tu bing | Va ria ble

‘He re b u t no t here ’ | 20 08 | Si ng le Scree n Vi de o P ro jec tio n (vi de o s ti l ls ) | 24 : 30 mi ns

‘H ome bo u nd ’ | 200 8 | A u dio Vi deo I n stal l a tio n (vid eo s ti l l s) | Wo ode n b o x, m oni tor , he ad p hone s | 5 min l oop

‘Down Under Brooklyn Bridge ’ | 2006 | Twelve Drawings | Paper and graphite | A4 size

‘1800 Ho me’ | 2005 | I n s tal la tio n | Me ta l ra t tr ap, na tu ral co tton , r ub ber la te x | Var ia ble

‘Lulan ’ | 2004 | Site-Specific Installation and Video (15:30 min loop) | 30 meters quilted blue velvet , book, map, monitor and media player | Variable

‘Nomadic O’ | 2004 | Mixed Media | Photographs, text, microscope slides and boxes, pin lights | Variable

E D U C A T I O N

Current Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) - RMIT – School Of Art, Melbourne, Australia

1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) - University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E

T R A I N I N G

2011 Participatory Video Facilitation - InsightShare, Oxford, United Kingdom

2011 Documentary Film Production - Open Channel, Melbourne, Australia

2004 -2005 Mixed Media and Printmaking - The Art Students League of New York, 215 W 57th Street, New York NY

1999 Film Production Design - Mowelfund Film Institute, Quezon City, Philippines

2007 Wellington Public Library, “Collective”, Wellington, New Zealand

2001 Surrounded by Water Gallery, “Project Lulan”, EDSA Ortigas, Philippines

2000 Surrounded by Water Gallery, “Warm Caramel”, EDSA Ortigas, Philippines

2000 Blind Tiger Gallery, “Line Increments”, Quezon City, Philippines

1999 Brix Gallery, “Opening”, Makati City, Philippines

S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S

S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S A N D P U B L I C A R T

2012 Public Art - Belediyese Municipality, “YANSIMALAR”, Sile Turkey

2012 Melbourne Gaol Gallery, “Conviction”, Melbourne Victoria

2012 Public Art - City of Dandenong, “Nocturnal”, Melbourne Victoria

2012 Public Art - Federation Square, “Light and Winter Festival”, Melbourne Victoria

2010 Public Art - City of Hume, “Making a Scene”, Melbourne Victoria

2009 Guildford Lane Gallery, “City Lane Dwellers” 20 – 24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne VIC

2008 Aljira Centre for Contemporary Art, “The Beautiful Ones”, 591 Broad Street, Newark NJ

2008 Nexus Gallery, “Different Lights”, Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide South Australia

2007 Swipers Gully Vineyard, Eltham College of Education “Masterworks 2007”, Eltham, Victoria

2007 Sison Gallery, “Ars Erotica”, 1906 Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines

2007 Smack Mellon, “RE:GENERATION”- Emerging Women Artists, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn N

2006 The Contemporary Museum, “Alimachuan”, Honolulu, Hawaii

2006 ABC NO RIO, “The Ides of March – 6th Biennial Exhibition”, 156 Rivington Street New York, NY

2006 Future Prospects, “Tactics”, Marikina Shoe Expo, Quezon City, Philippines

2005 Goliath Visual Space, “Flippin Out”, 117 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn NY

2005 Mabel Smith Douglass Library Gallery, “The Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series”, New Jersey

2005 ABC NO RIO, “Anti Star”, 156 Rivington Street, New York NY

2005 Rialto, “Close Connections”, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2005 Magnet Gallery, “Just Visiting”, Makati City, Philippines

2005 P.S. 122 “Subversion”, 150 1st Ave, New York, NY

2005 Minna Gallery, “Independent Exposure San Francisco”, San Francisco, California

2004 Dumbo Art Centre, “A Stereoscopic Vision”, 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn NY

2004 Surrounded by Water Gallery, “Avenues”, (Site Specific) EDSA Ortigas, Philippines

2004 ABC no Rio’s, “The Ides of March – Moving Images”, 156 Rivington Street, New York NY

2004 Longwood Art Gallery, “Bootle Gender”, 450 Grand Concourse, New York NY

2003 Big Sky Mind Gallery, “Satellite”, New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines

2003 The GLTB Centre Gallery, “Lust”, 208 W 13th St. New York, NY

2003 The Philippine Centre, “Globo!”, 556 45th St. New York, NY

2002 Exit Art Gallery, “Reactions”, 548 Broadway New York, NY

2001 Gallerie 101, “101 Frames”, 236 Napean St. Ottawa, Ontario Canada

V I D E O W O R K S

‘The Sea is Present’ #1 - 2012 | Audio and Video Projection | 9:03 mins

‘Unveiling the Veil ’- 2012 | Video Installation | 15 mins

‘Shed ’- 2012 |Shadow Projection and Sound | 2 hours

‘Where should the birds fly after the last sky? ’ - 2012 | Audio and Video Installation | 8.08 mins

‘Sub-rosa ’- 2012 | Audio and Video Installation | 5 mins

‘Blue’ - 2012 | Audio and Video Installation | 3 mins

‘The Visitor’ - 2012 | Video Projection | 5:01 mins

‘Waiting’ - 2012 | Video Installation | 5:03 mins

‘The First Arrival - 2011 | Performance and Video Projection | 8 mins

‘Down Under ’ - 2011 | Audio and Video Installation | 8:03 mins

‘Absentia’- 2011 | Experimental Documentary Video | 10:05 mins

S E L E C T E D S C R E E N I N G S

2011 VCA - Grant Street Cinema, Melbourne, Victoria 2008 Filipino American Film Festival, Vallejo, California, USA

2008 Brunswick Women’s Theatre “Making A Scene!”, Kangan Batman Tafe, Broadmeadows, Victoria

2008 ‘Homebound’ Broadcast on PBS World Channel, Global Voices Segment, ITVS, USA

2008 Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne

2005 National Geographic All Roads Film Festival, Washington DC, USA

2005 Asian American International Film Festival Asia Society, NY, NY USA

2005 US ASEAN Film and Photography Festival, Washington DC, USA

2005 International Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA

2005 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2005 Women of Colour Film Festival, Berkeley, California, USA

2004 Festival Cinemas & Culture D'Asie, Lyon, France

2004 FAN-Chicago Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois, USA

2004 San Diego International Asian Film Festival, San Diego Film Foundation, CA, USA

2004 Starz Denver International Film Festival, Denver, CO, USA

2004 World Unity Festival, New York, NY, USA

‘Talk You Me’ - 2011 | Video Installation | 10:10 mins

‘What’s your name again?’ - 2010 | Video Projection | 7:03 mins

‘Where are you going?’ - 2009 | Video Installation | 4:40 mins

‘Lost In Transition, Mate!’ - 2009 | Site Specific Video Installation | 15 mins

‘Here but not here’ - 2008 | 24:30 mins

‘Medication Time’- 2008 | Video Projection | 18 mins

‘A Bride and a Stone’- 2008 | Video Projection | 20 mins

‘We Can’t Stand Still’ - 2008 | Video Projection |15 mins

‘Our Past Our Future Our Present’- 2008 | Video Projection | 50 mins

‘Bring Your Own’- 2008 | Video | Documentary | 26 mins

‘Ibon’ - 2005 | Video | Exp | 9 mins

‘Why We Missed the Sunday Morning Show’ - 2004 | Video | Exp | 10 mins

‘Balikbayan (Homebound)’ - 2004 | Video | Exp | 5 mins

‘Lulan’ - 1999 | Video Installation | 46 mins

C O L L E C T I O N S

National Geographic Washington DC

PBS World Channel- Global Voices

Monash University Library

University of Melbourne Library

La Trobe University

State Library of Victoria

RMIT University Library

2010 Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant Recipient

2005 ‘Homebound’ Best Short Film Award - National Geographic ASEAN Film and Photography Festival, USA

2004 ‘Homebound’ Best Experimental Film' - San Diego Asian American Film Festival, USA

2004 ‘Homebound’ Best Short Film - CineManila International Film Festival, Philippines

A W A R D S

R E S I D E N C I E S

2012 Artist in Residence - Belediyese Municipality, Sile, Turkey

2007 Artist In Residence - New Pacific Studio, Masterton, New Zealand

2000-2001 Artist In Residence, Restoration and Conservation - Museum of Canada, Ottawa Canada

2004 Southern California Asian American Central, Pinoy Vision, L.A., CA, USA

2004 Asian American International Film Festival Asia Society, NY, NY, USA

2004 New York Video Festival Lincoln Centre, NY, NY, USA

2004 CineManila International Film Festival, Makati City, Philippines

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