Volery - Alfred Marasigan & Tsering Frykman-Glen
An online archive of bird related communications between Alfred & Tsering, launched on International Dawn Chorus Day May 3rd, Tangent Projects website.
Volery is a collaborative project between Alfred Marasigan and Tsering Frykman-Glen. They have never physically met and, to date, have only spoken on the phone a few times. The major part of their communication has been by an assortment of different messaging apps. Their project is - at least currently - one that is purely airborne.
What started as a shared observation about exotic fauna in Western European art on an Instagram post, progressed into a conversation regarding their mutual gravitation to birds, and this is fundamentally how their collaboration was formed.
Not knowing what shape it would take, or what the project really was, Alfred and Tsering carried on their (predominantly visual) correspondence without really knowing where it was going - they just appreciated being able to share the strange and interesting avian related tidbits they found strewn around the internet.
Volery is an archive of the various different aspects of Alfred and Tsering’s recurring communication regarding birds.
Volery - an aviary or large birdcage/a large flock of birds found in an aviary/a large flock of birds flying in an aviary.
Click the words below to access the archive
- Pathogenes
- Artwork
- Flight
- Migration
- plague
- virus
- cockatoo
- Sounds
- Feathers
- dinosaurs
- Wings
- Peacocks
- Birdsong
- Phoenix
- Quarantine Birdsong
- Furcula
- Songbirds
- Dawn Chorus
- Flight 2
- Menagerie
- Food
- Cranes
- Peacock Pie
- Birds
- Avian
- Owls
- Emu
- Scientific Illustration
- Ortolan
- chickens
- Wild Time 3
- Chickens
- Australia Video Project
- Colonised Fauna
- Second Adolescence
- A Race of Angels
- rituals
Photo by Tom Milnes
Alfred Marasigan (b. 1992) began as a landscape painter until he discovered livestreaming and eventually found performance. Through his transmedial practice and serendipitous research, he uses livestreaming as medium to challenge modes of storytelling, navigate the politics of belonging, and apprehend the trappings of chance. He heavily draws inspiration from emotional geography, Norwegian slow TV, and magic realism.
Alfred graduated with an MA in Contemporary Art from UiT Arctic University of Norway's Tromsø Academy of Art and is a Norwegian Council of the Arts Grantee for Newly Graduated Artists. In 2016, he had his first solo show Places in the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), and in 2015, he became a First Round Winner (General Category) of Art Olympia: International Open Art Competition in Tokyo, Japan. Currently based in Manila, Alfred is also a full-time instructor in Ateneo de Manila University’s Department of Fine Arts.
Alfred’s artworks have also been exhibited, screened, and presented in Enclave Lab (UK), Tromsø Kunstforening (NO), Meinblau Projektraum (DE), Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival (AMIFF) (NO), c3 Contemporary Art Space (AU), Metropolitan Museum of Manila (PH); and included in publications like Kunstkritikk.no, Fordham University’s CURA Magazine, SFMoMA’s Tumblr, Rogue, and Ateneo’s Heights, among others.
Photo courtesy of Elvira Lopez
Tsering Frykman-Glen is a British born but Barcelona based curator that has over 15 years of experience working in alternative/independent spaces, projects and galleries.
She was the New Media Director of Phatspace Gallery in Sydney between 2004 - 2006. After returning to London she co-founded The Spare Room, a one-year curatorial project that brought art into non-gallery spaces (2008). On moving to Barcelona she set up the online arts curation project Remote (2011 – 2014) and, in 2015 co-founded Tangent Projects. In early 2019, Tangent Projects became a cultural association and opened a small project based gallery, with 7 attached artist studios, in the L’Hospitalet de Llobregat area of Barcelona, where Tsering became the full-time director and gallery curator.
During her time as a curator, Tsering has been fortunate enough to work on many exciting projects with many interesting artists including Daniel Boyd, Hannah Brown, Eli Cortiñas, Ely Daou, Kuba Dorabialski, Brian Fuata, Christine de la Garenne, Margherita Isola, Soda_Jerk, Christopher Kline, Irma Marco, Kiara Mohamed, Lizette Nin, Marc O'Callaghan, Katy B Plummer, Provmyza, Frances Richardson, Marina Rubio, Lolo & Sosaku, Raechel Teitelbaum, The Telepathy Project, Kate Terry and Jennet Thomas among many others.
Volery also has it’s own Instagram account, you can follow it here.