Datu Arellano

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Datu Arellano (born 1980) is a visual artist, a maker, a musician, and an educator. As a practitioner he straddles multiple contexts of visual and performing arts, and works within the traditional forms of drawing and painting; the experimental aspects of sound design, music, and video; and the commercial contexts of graphic design. Aside from exhibiting, Datu currently performs as an experimental musician/ sound artist, creating music compositions and arrangements for film and theater, as well as desigining and building unique DIY music and sound-making instruments. He lives and works in Quezon City, Philippines.

Solo Exhibitions

You Are A Microcosm II, Pinto Art Gallery, 2022
You Are A Microcosm, Mono8 Gallery, 2019
Ensonicment, Pablo Gallery, 2019
Tahigami: New Explorations, LIMBO, 2019
Tahigami Music, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2017
Tahigami, Art Informal, 2015
Whites Series, Pinto Gallery, 2005
Meditations In White, CCP Small Gallery, 2003
Magnilay, De La Salle University Art Gallery, 2001
Schnell, De La Salle University Art Gallery, 1999

Group Exhibitions

The Listening Biennial, University of the Philippines, 2023
A Blank Slate, Kondwi Gallery Makati City, 2023
documenta 15 (guest artist via Kiri Dalena), Kassel Germany, 2022
there there & What the Flag?!, Greylight Projects, Heerlen Netherlands, 2022
Future Present, Mono8 Gallery, San Juan City, 2022
Fleeting, J Studio Gallery, Makati City, 2022
16, Artinformal Greenhills, San Juan City, 2020
Tinig (sound installation with Dayang Yraola), Kyoto Japan, 2019
The Paravan Project, Gallery in the Gutter, Makati, 2019
Dialogues, Art Anton, 2019
New Wave, Deutsche Bank Artspace, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, 2019
The Replacements, Underground Gallery, Makati, 2019
Bakas, Bagtas, Bukas (with Anino Shadowplay Collective), Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, 2018
Fallible Axioms, Mono8 Gallery, Manila, 2018
Position Paper, Galerie Stephanie, Mandaluyong, 2018
Composite Circuits, Vinyl on Vinyl Gallery, Makati, 2018
Codec (3-man show with Raymond Red and Pablo Biglang Awa), Underground Gallery, Makati, 2017
Kandinsky, J. Studio, 2014
Sungdu-an 3 / NCR 3: Making the Local, Pasig City Museum, 2003
Densities: Making sense of Dense Cities, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2003
SBW Annual Lighting Show, Photography Art Center, 2002
First ASEAN Cultural Week, Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2002.
White on White, The White Wall - Odd Manila, UP Bahay ng Alumni, 2001
Paper Over, Ayala Museum, 2000
Makiling sa Tabi ng Dagat, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2000
Makiling sa Likod ng OE, Surrounded By Water Gallery, 2000
Panimula, Ayala Museum, 2000
The Human Form: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches, Boston Gallery, Quezon City, 1999
Philippine Sculptures 1999, Greenbelt Park Makati City, 1999
Humanities Week Exhibition, University of the Philippines College Baguio, 1999
Sculptour, GSIS Museo ng Sining, 1998
Philippine Sculptures 1998, Greenbelt Park Makati City, 1998

Workshops and Collaborative Works

Wonderpole Workshop, an arts and electronics workshop, VOLUME: Festival of Sound and Vision, Art Gallery of New South Wales Australia, 2023
Deconstructing Tahigami, 3-day workshop and lecture, Tangible Music Lab, Linz Austria, 2022
Kislap, music score, a Kiri Dalena short film, 2022
Pila, 6-channel sound design and music score, a Kiri Dalena video installation for documenta 15, Kassel Germany, 2022
Mga Balo, sound design and music score, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2022
Balag at Angud, projection designer, a production by Tanghalang Pilipino, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2018
Sarimanok: Tanglaw sa Panahon ng Sigwa, music composer and arranger, 50th Anniversary Dance Concert of the UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe, 2018
This Here Land, artistic consultancy, visual design, sound design and performance, a LabAnino production for Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, Sydney, Australia, 2017.
Within and Without, artistic consultancy, visual design, sound design and performance, a collaboration with Paschal Berry and ANINO Shadowplay Collective, Sydney, Australia, 2011.
The Folding Wife, performer, National Tour of Australia, 2010
The Folding Wife, artistic consultancy, visual design and performance, a collaboration with Paschal Berry, Urban Theatre Projects, and ANINO Shadowplay Collective, Sydney, Australia, 2006 and 2007
Florante at Laura ng ANINO, musical director, co-composer (w/ Chris Carandang), arranger, musician, sound engineer, an Anino Shadowplay Collective production, 2004
Sino Ka Ba Jose Rizal?, shadowplay visual design and direction, a Musical Theatre Phils. Production with ANINO Shadowplay Collective, Music Museum, 2002