BACOLOD City – Bacoleño photographer, filmmaker, and production designer RJ Lacson’s 2019 MassKara Festival installation will be unveiled on Oct. 6 at the government center fountain area, according to Silver MassKara Festival Organization festival director Eli Tajanlangit.
“It’s an anniversary-themed tableau presented as a zeitgeist of the moment in creativity and aesthetics inspired from 40 years of the MassKara Festival seen from the native of the city’s point of view,” Tajanlangit said.
“The idea came when I was given the challenge to come up with a ruby MassKara-themed fountain installation that would best showcase a celebration of history and today,” he added.
The installation depicts three dancers in different actions wearing costumes that are a mix of haute couture and seasoned patterns and designs.
According to Lacson, the installation is a series of statements that have defined the festival over the past 40 years.
“It will somehow give us a glimpse on how the festival, for the past forty years, has showcased different artists and choreographers that gave the festival its sensibilities and uniqueness,” he added. “These designers, along with the others contributing their work, exemplify aspects of MassKara in their design, putting theatricality, irony and humor on the checkered flooring of Bacolod’s public plaza.”
Last August, Tajanlangit said this year’s MassKara Festival was scheduled to kick off on Sept. 8 in order to unveil a “major art installation,” which he described as “something like a memorial to the festival.”/PN
