“IF IT IS NOT MATTER, IT IS ENERGY.
IF IT MATTERS, IT IS INFORMATION.
IF IT DOES NOT MATTER, IT IS NOISE.”
– greenmuseum
The state of well-being is viewed primarily as the absence of disease or defect. In practice, the symptomatic approach to ill health and disease are fixed with specific medication, treatment or cure causing those symptoms. Correlating to this, culture as a social determinant of health is measured according to various factors that have direct impact on health at the individual level such as social environments, social justice, education level, cultural identity, gender, coping skills and resilience, infrastructure, geography, community, political stability, and many ways these intersect with and complement world views and values.
Seeing health inequalities of social conditions, the imbalances, disruption and destruction of our culture, values, and structures as booster dose, this group of ten young artists take pleasure in associating aesthetic possibility brought about by experienced emotions in the struggle to avoid presence of resistance and disruption. Vitamin Shit boosts their short-lived excitement, locates their vulnerability to fear, trauma, pursuit of pleasure, and excitement.
The works seem to appear like simultaneous experiences, to capture the consequences of the effects of struggle, both in sustaining resources and values.
This is their dose of self-immunization.
– Noell EL Farol,
Guest Curator
Vitamin Sh*t participated by Frances Abrigo, Bryan Araneta, Marius Black, Adam Flores, Mara Herrera, Sharla O’Hara, Tad Pagaduan, Jhemuel Slavador, Rem San Pedro, Joum Valera opens 2 July 2015. The exhibit will run up to 30 July 2015.
NCCA Gallery is located at the ground floor of NCCA Building, 633 Gen. Luna St., Intramuros, Manila. Contact Number: 527-2192; email: nccagallery09@gmail.com
Bibliography:
http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_content/ct_id-169__artist_id-94.html
Knibb-Lamouche, James, ‘Culture as Social Determinant of Health: Examples from Native Communities’, 2012.
