VIVA ExCon 2020
Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference 2020 – Virtual Conference 1 and 2
November – December 2020
VIVA ExCon is a Visayas-wide biennale which was started by the art group Black Artist in Asia in 1990 in Bacolod City and whose hosting has since then toured the Visayan Islands every two years without fail. It has become the blueprint with which other like initiatives have been patterned after. It was the main goal of VIVA ExCon to celebrate Visayan art by bridging the islands of the Visayas so as to provide a venue to facilitate dialogues, interaction, networking and cultural exchanges, thus addressing fundamental and relevant issues among visual art communities and related stakeholders. Having accomplished such goals in the 30 years of its existence, it now looks towards the future in ways that can best contribute to the development of the communities it serves.
Island Participants
Western Visayas: Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo, Negros Occidental
Central Visayas: Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, Siquijor
Eastern Visayas: Biliran, Leyte, Southern Leyte, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, Samar
Schedule and Speakers