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Southern Tagalog Exposure is an independent multimedia collective of young
artists and workers based in Southern
Tagalog (Region IV). Alongside traditionally
used protest visual art forms such as
street theater, mural paintings, sculptural
effigies, ST Exposure appropriates multimedia
(video/film, print, and radio) technology
as medium to advance social change by
arousing the larger society on pressing
issues concerning the marginalized and
underserved sectors in the region particularly
the peasants, fisher folks, worker, urban
poor, national minorities, gays and lesbians,
women and children.
Southern Tagalog Exposure mainly produces
and exhibit socio-political digital video
documentaries and audio-visual works.
They have been exhibited in various venues
ranging from improvised public screenings
during overnight protest vigils in the
streets of Mendiola, to the air conditioned
theatres of the yearly alternative Film
and Digital Video Festivals held in the
country and abroad. Recently, three of
their works have been given recognition
in the documentary and experimental categories
of the Ika-16 Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong
Pelikula at Video.” Furthermore,
it regularly publishes Exposure a magazine
circulated in Region IV and as part of
its thrust to popularize progressive digital
media, facilitates output-oriented alternative
digital video workshops such as those
it held in Baguio City and Isabela last
year. They were also exhibited, along
with other artists at the Sungduan 03
Visual Arts exhibit at the CCP.
ST Exposure is a collective
of socially active young multi-media artists.
Being student activists in college, their
passion for the visual arts developed
at the backdrop of a congruent sense of
social responsibility. Thus, although
the individual members of the group came
from different non-visual arts, they found
common ground in their passionate resolve
to commit themselves and their artistic
inclinations on themes about the struggle
of the socially disadvantaged and disenfranchised,
as well as the "resurgenceof movements
of resistance and liberation" in
Southern Tagalog.
The works of ST Exposure
are the offsprings of their integration
and interaction with workers, peasants,
urban poor and indigenous people’s
who allowed them to document their pain,
struggle and persistence within a movement
of resistance and liberation that they
have inevitably embraced as their own.
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BLOCKQUOTES
"Everyone has the right to freedom
of opinion and expression; this
right includes freedom to hold
opinions without interference
and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through
any media regardless of frontiers."
-- Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,
December 10,1948
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