Contemporary Art and Region XII (SOCCSKSARGEN)

• Art expresses imagination, feelings, and ideas through visual, auditory, or performance forms to convey meaning or beauty.
• Contemporary refers to things, ideas, or events related to the second half of the 20th century to the present.
• Region XII, known as SOCCSKSARGEN, includes South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and General Santos City.
• Contemporary art in Region XII reflects the rich culture and traditions of indigenous groups like the T'boli and B'laan through T'nalak weaving, music, visual arts, and literature adapted to modern contexts.
• Art serves as a mechanism of the universe, capturing, recording, and conveying messages about events, activities, traditions, and beliefs of various communities.
• Aristotle stated that everything in the world has a purpose or "telos."
• Every being or thing has a natural purpose tied to its development.

Functions of Art

• Art conveys personal expression, feelings, and experiences, bringing relief and personal satisfaction.
• Examples include Sabel by Benedicto Cabrera, Mga Liham ni Rizal, and The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.
• Art addresses social issues, raises awareness, and inspires collective action for change.
• Examples include A Berber's Tale by Jun Robles Lana, Upuan by Gloc 9, and Spoliarium by Juan Luna.
• Art preserves the culture, tradition, and history of a race, identifying the identity of a community or nation.
• Examples include Tnalak of the Tboli, Malem of the Blaan, and Tagonggo of the Maguindanaoan.
• Art serves as a medium for faith, honoring gods or saints, and spreading religious teachings.
• Examples include Pista ng Higantes in Angono, Pink Mosque in Maguindanao del Norte, and Sayaw sa Obando.
• Art documents significant events, sheds light on the past, and preserves historical memories.
• Examples include Cry of Balintawak Monument by Guillermo Tolentino.
• Art showcases beauty, harmony, and balance, providing inspiration or entertainment through visual or emotional experience.
• Examples include Philippine Jeepney Art, La Luna by Kenneth Cobonpue, and Fiesta Hiraya by Ivan Raborar.
• Art is used as a commodity that can generate income or provide livelihoods.
• Examples include Capiz Shell Crafts, Kumala Banig of Zamboanga, and Ka-ang of Tantangan.
• Art brings emotional or mental healing, offering comfort or aid in the healing process.

Elements of Art

• Space in performing arts involves the area where the performance takes place, showing other elements like blocking, choreography, and staging.
• Space is the area around, between, or within objects used to create depth and perspective.
• Positive Space: The Artwork's Subject
• Negative Space: The Subject's Empty Space
• Line in performing arts refers to the lines and curves seen in body movements during a performance, defining a character's traits.
• It can be straight, curved, thick, thin, jagged, wavy, or implied.
• Shape is seen in the movements and gestures of the performer or in props and stage design, establishing scenes and moods.
• Geometric (circles, squares, triangles) – precise and mathematical.
• Organic (irregular, freeform) – found in nature, like leaves and clouds.
• Color in performing arts is important for conveying concepts, locations, time periods, and emotions in clothing, props, and stage design. Color has Hue, Value, and Saturation.
• Hue refers the name, e.g. red, blue, yellow
• Value refers to lightness or darkness of color
• Saturation refers to the brightness of dullness
• Texture can be seen in props and costumes, as well as in body movements and facial expressions, adding symbolic meaning to the performance.
• Texture can be Actual or Implied.
• Form in performing arts is seen in how a work is presented, such as body movements in dance, the use of props, and character portrayals.
• It can be sculptural or implied through shading in two-dimensional artworks.
• Value refers to giving weight or highlighting features or characters seen on stage through proximity, frontality, elevation, contrast, and leading lines.

Music

• Music is an art using sound and silence to create compositions with rhythm, melody, and harmony, conveying emotion, messages, and enjoyment.
• Contemporary music is written and performed in the present or recent decades, often showing new technologies and experiments in sound and structure.

Element of music

• Rhythm refers to the arrangement of sounds and silence in time, creating patterns.
• Dynamics refers the loudness that can vary from forte to piano
• Timbre is tonal quality- different tones differentiate instruments even at same pitch.
• Form refers to the structure of music- how it is organized
• Texture refers to the amount and kinds of sounds – how they contrast
• Harmony refers to the combination of different pitches
• Melody refers a series of pitches
• Tonality refers to the systematic organization of notes