Spaces of BLISS

Abstract

This paper is a case study of the community arts project BLISS Market and the involvement of the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum in such an endeavour. Fostering a multidisciplinary orientation, the project gathered artists, educators, and students to engage with the community’s spaces and reassert its presence as a place for exchange. It utilized pockets of the actual site and transferred the exhibition to the Vargas Museum as a form of documentation and as indication of work-in-progress. This study considers the impact of hosting the project within a university museum’s four walls.