Tour
Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country
2 August 2013 – 8 March 2015
Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto: Mark Gowing
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto: Mark Gowing
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists
- Click To PlayPlay Video
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyVideo courtesy Das Platforms
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists and Pinnacles Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists and Pinnacles Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists and Pinnacles Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists and Pinnacles Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists and Pinnacles Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists and Pinnacles Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists and Pinnacles Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Pinnaces Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy the artists and Pinnacles Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Tweed Regional Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy Tweed Regional Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Tweed Regional Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy Tweed Regional Gallery
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012
(installation view, Tweed Regional Gallery, 2014)Used transport cardboard boxes, packing tape, handcrafted cardboard houses, makeshift drums and sound, single channel video projection (The Badjao (Southern Philippines), 5:07 min) plus 5 LCD screen installations
dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, SydneyPhoto courtesy Tweed Regional Gallery
- Installing In-Habit: Project Another Country at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
- Click To PlayPlay Video
You might be forgiven for thinking that someone has a lot of time and cardboard on their hands when you visit In-Habit at Bathurst Regional Gallery. And you wouldn’t be wrong. Indeed many hours and a whole lot of boxes go into the installation of this mammoth touring project. In-Habit, like Rome, was not built in a day.
The cardboard walls of this metropolis are constructed entirely from recycled cardboard boxes, sticky tape, toothpicks, paper and glue — a project which has art climbing the walls from floor to ceiling in each of the gallery spaces in order to build this magical monstrous-city.
Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan: In-Habit: Project Another Country is a Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation commissioned project, toured by Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country, 2012Location Photographs, Badjao Community Seaside II, Barangay, Matina Aplaya, Davao City, Philippines
Photo: Alfredo Juan Aquilizan
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan and Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
In-Habit: Project Another Country
Tour dates: 2 August 2013 – 8 March 2015
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation partnered with Museums & Galleries NSW to tour In-Habit: Project Another Country. The unique, community-based contemporary art project travelled to six public galleries in regions across NSW, QLD and SA from 2013 – 2015.
Unlike static touring exhibitions of objects alone, the exhibition encouraged and was reliant on audience engagement as an integral part of the artwork. The tour of In-Habit provided a rare and special opportunity for regional galleries and their communities to interact face-to-face with contemporary artists of this calibre and participate in the development of a pivotal art initiative.
The project has visited the following venues:
- Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (Booragul, NSW) – 2 August to 8 September 2013
- Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (Bathurst, NSW) – 31 January to 16 March 2014
- Pinnacles Gallery (Townsville, QLD) – 5 April to 4 May 2014
- Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia (Adelaide, SA) – 1 August to 3 October 2014
(Presented by the Samstag Museum of Art for the Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2014 OzAsia Festival) - Tweed River Art Gallery (Murwillumbah, NSW) – 17 October to 14 December 2014
- Cairns Regional Gallery (Cairns, QLD) – 5 January to 8 March 2015
International Tour
Further to a visit by Hiromi Kurosawa, Senior Curator, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art to SCAF, Isabel and Alfredo Aqulizan were invited to exhibit In-Habit from 3 August 2013 – 10 November 2013 in Kanazawa. In addition SCAF alumni artist, Fiona Tan was also invited to exhibit alongside the Aquilizans.
SCAF provided in-kind support for the In-Habit tour.
