16th of June – 27th of June 2003
HOTTA-HATAW and SALU-SALO
Yuan Mor’O Ocampo.
( the Filipines )
Press release
rum46 gladly presents the Filipino artist Yuan Mor’O Ocampo.
Performances:
Hotta-Hottaw, June 27th, 4.00 p.m. in Århus Hovedbanegård (railway station)
Salu-Salo, July 1th at 4.00 p.m. on Pustervig Torv
HOTTA-HATAW OG SALU-SALO
”I have learned some very valuable lessons from Atang-Atang, more than ever, I have come to realize that we are all connected. I have come to realize that life must be shared; you share yourself with others, with one’s environment – a life of mutual sharing among all creatures could start with a small feast, set on a table, celebrating life!” Yuan Mor’O Ocampo
In his art work Yuan Mor’O Ocampo uses his cultural inheritance as a Filipino. He begins his performances in Århus with the Filipino word Salu-Salo, meaning meal. Salu-salo is a celebration in which all take part in creating a euphorical overwhelming feeling and sharing an abundance of food. Yuan Mor’O Ocampo tells that the Filipinos have a special tradition for celebrating; they celebrate life itself and do not limit themselves to specific festive occasions.
In his performances Mor’O Ocampo is inspired by the precolonial, animistic healing-ritual Atang-atang. This ritual can heal a human being and is always followed by a celebration. The ritual embraces a vital role in society, as a connection between the known and the unknown “world” as a road towards spirituality. The connection with the metaphysical world allows the possibility for a well being to emerge, not only for the ones that are ill, but for everybody. Spirituality is not something far away – it’s very close – in all humans. Atang-atang is based on a spiritual conception about life as something reborn.
Mor’O Ocampo’s performance Salu-Salo goes beyond the Atang-atang ceremonie as a ritual and involves the partipants in a more intimate situation of exchange.
Mor’O Ocampo’s message in his performances is: If you respect life and the right to diversity, you also have created the basis for coexistence in peace and harmony.
Shigeaki Iwai and Yuan Mor’O Ocampas projects closes the second part of the international artproject Gæstebud – Feast/Hospitality; The Meal, organized by rum46. The commont concern for all 8 projects that constitute The Meal, are the interhuman meetings established by the artists. Meeting that is to be compared with the social action of a meal, as a place for interchange, confrontation and dialogue. Gæstebud – Feast/Hospitality in August enters it’s third and last phase, The Letters of Thanks; a newspaper in which hospitality will be debated by various writers.
Yours faithfully
rum46, Studsgade 46, 8000 Århus C, Denmark
www.rum46.dk
E-mail: hospitality_art@hotmail.com
Phone +45 86208625 / +45 24668915
Feast/Hospitality is supported by: Center for Dansk Billedkunst, Center for kultursamarbejde med Udviklingslandene, Billedkunstraadet, Nordisk Kulturfond, Aarhus Kommunes Kulturpulje, Aarhus Amt, Gevalia, Dan Media, FONA og HUSET
