What Is Contemporary Art?
  

                             Contemporary Art is distinguishable from Modern Art in historical, stylistic, and cultural terms. The most common characteristics of Contemporary Art revolve around their being site-specific, process-based, collaborative, and interactive. However, there are also artists who use a mixture of contemporary, indigenous Islamic, popular and traditional art forms, media, and content. This mixing and combining of many elements make us understand our own culture-itself a mix of many different cultures, and histories.   We also realize that Contemporary Art is never fixed, but open to many possibilities. The different places in the Philippines are home to rich and varied art forms, most of them unknown even to us who live next to them. Others like Bacani live and work in other lands, which is also one of the realities of contemporary Philippines. To study and appreciate the contemporary is to experience and understand art as a window to Philippine contemporary life.

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