Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Josephine Turalba

Saturday, November 07, 2015 @ 3:00pm, Clemson One Building

Border-philia: Honoring Boundaries, Visiting Faculty, and Practicing the Post-Colonial

Josephine Turalba is the Dean of the School of Fine Arts at Philippines Women's University in Manila. An interdisciplinary artist who incorporates video, sculpture, performance and sound into her artworks, she received her MFA from Universität Krems in Austria in 2009. Turalba's work showcases an idiosyncratic assemblies of bullets casings interwoven into studio portraits to connect pain, beauty, anand collective spaces in nations with shared histories of colonialism.

Recently her work was shown at Palazzo Mora, part of the European Cultural Centre's parallel exhibit with the Venice Biennale. Her work has also been shown at the Santorini Biennale, Greece; Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; La Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France; Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany; École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France; The Yuchengco Museum, Manila; South Hill Park, Bracknel, UK,; KIT Kunst-im-Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany; 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt; Malta Contemporary Art Center; and Lopez Museum, Manila. josephineturalba.com