Rev. Fr. Jason Dy, SJ is a Jesuit priest and Filipino contemporary artist. He is the founder of Alternative Contemporary Art Studio (ACAS) in Cebu City and is currently a lecturer at the Fine Arts Department of the Ateneo de Manila University. He is has an MA in Art History and Curating from the Liverpool Hope University in the UK.
One notable project was Procesion de los Camareros, commissioned for first Manila Biennale Open City with the participation of the fifteen pedicab drivers from Barangay 655, Intramuros, Manila (2018). Another one was Not One Less project in Kecamatan Imogiri (2017, Bantul, Yogyakarta) and Project Space Pilipinas (2017, Lucban, Quezon) that responded to EJK violence through happenings and rituals.
His latest curatorial project was Yellow Ambiguities at the Ateneo Art Gallery (August 2019-January 2020) together with the poet and art writer Carlomar Daoana. The co-curated exhibition explored how the artists and artisans engaged with the complexity of the color yellow in the Philippine context from pre-colonial times until the contemporary times.
Currently, since the lockdown in March 2020 because of the pandemic, Dy has been arranging flowers as part of the ongoing art project Arrange/Enliven. These floral arrangements are installed either at the studio of Jesuit Communications, Sonulox Building or at the Church of the Gesú, Ateneo de Manila, for the daily online masses. Photographs of these arrangements are posted on his Facebook page accompanied with some reflective texts.
As main speaker
ILS 75 – Pilgrimage with the Intramuros Pedicab Drivers: Art, Tourism, and Religion
About the Intramuros Learning Sessions
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