BY AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN, I-Watch
KORONADAL CITY— Politics is often defined as both a science and an art. But activist Neil Jay Castante, a native of Surallah in South Cotabato, literally creates a twist by focusing on the “art” part.
The 31-year-old Castante is a practitioner of what is known as installation art, a new genre where the work is created, constructed, or installed on the same site where it is exhibited.
A case in point is his work called “Gift,” which from afar looks like an old and damaged car covered with newspapers that appears to be undergoing restoration. It sits in the garage of local sculptor and mountain climber Conrado Castro Mayor on Aurora Street in the center of this city.