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Artist Mideo Cruz wants package provoke depreciating thought, gets death threats instead
By Endurance ALLECO R.SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
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Poleteismo
Cultural Center of the Philippines
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
PHILIPPINE ART
(Polytheism) / 2011 / Site-specific installation / Variable materials and dimensions / Artist: Mideo Cruz / Bulwagang Juan Luna, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila / Artist’s collection
Poleteismo is an installation by Mideo Cruz that became controversial in the mass and social media in 2011 because of its usage of religious imagery juxtaposed with social, political, and popular images. It was part of the Kulo (Boil) exhibition, 2011, a project held by the University of Santo Tomas (UST) fine arts alumni in commemoration of the UST’s 400th anniversary and Jose Rizal’s 150th birth celebration. The furor and pre-terminated exhibiting of Kulo spurred by reaction to Poleteismo became a landmark incident in the discourse of art and the public, as well as on issues of intervention and censorship.
Poleteismo is a multidimensional, site-specific installation. Its exhibition in the CCP featured a three-wall assemblage of various signage, religious, political, movie, and celebrity posters of public personalities and icons, including Jesus of Nazareth, Mary, the holy family, various saints, Uncle Sam, Barack Obama, Fernando Poe Jr, Lito Atienza, as well as car plates,
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Interview with Mideo M. Cruz
Mideo M. Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist, who combines painting, sculpture, installation, performance and activism. Stemming from deep doubts, artwork of Cruz creates a provocative statement about the social structure. This interview explores collectivism in his artist practice. (Interviewed on November 22, 2013, in Makati City, Philippines, Interviewer: Mayumi Hirano)
UGATLahi Artist Collective was formed in 1992, when you were still an art student majoring in painting at University of Santo Thomas. How did it all begin?
We were young activists and we learned the value of the creatives in nurturing our ranks and expressing our thoughts. We wanted to understand more about life, bothered by existentialist dilemma to search the meaning of our existence and to see real things that were happening in contrast from the sanitized declarations of the existing institution. With a group of student activists/artists, we decided to establish a cultural group. We named it “Ugnayan at Galian ng mga Artistang Tanod ng Lahi” which later become “UGATLahi Artist Collective.” It started in a coffee shop in Malate on July 1992 after attending an affair in CCP. It then followed with a series of meetings and consultations in which