Errant Life Promiscuous Form

Errant Life, Promiscuous Form

Errant Life, Promiscuous Form imagines the exhibition as a site of elaborations of vitality — whether involving artistic agencies Carlos Quijon, Jr and forms, practices, and even vis-à-vis art’s vaster ecology and economies of collaboration.

Co-organised by Gravity Art Space, a newly inaugurated gallery in Manila, and A+ Works of Art, a young gallery based in Kuala Lumpur, the exhibition presents the works of artists based in Manila, Kuala Lumpur, and Bangkok whose practices speak to different forms of life. The concept riffs off Ludwig Wittgenstein’s formulation “to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.” From interspecies thinking and formmaking in the works of Tan Zi Hao and Isola Tong, to the life of materials in the context of creative processes in the practice of Pam Quinto and Gary-Ross Pastrana, the attentiveness to how forms of life are informed by particular materialities in the works of Samak Kosem and Yim Yen Sum, how life mediates forms and forms mediate life in Jao San Pedro and Mark Salvatus in collaboration with Seekersinternational, the exhibition explores how forms shape and structure lives and how life informs and structures what forms may be imagined or made material. Ideas of form and life are intertwined and made to mutually constitute each other.

In thinking alongside Wittgenstein’s elucidation of forms of life, the exhibition prospects artistic practice as a language that articulates and annotates the interfacing of conceptualizations of life and form. This interfacing reconsiders both notions. By thinking about life in relation to form, we address what materialities life takes and what modes of making it undertakes and undergoes. By looking at form in relation to life, we take note of how form circulates, the kinds of socialities and technologies through which it navigates. The exhibition therefore takes interest in how conceptualizations

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