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Kustiyah, et al: As if there is no sun
A girl is painting the scenery of the ocean and several boats. Dressed in long bright-colored pants and loose long-sleeved top, her long black hair was braided. The girl shifts poses while she paints. Sometimes she would sit down on the grass, sometimes she’d squat; whatever works to paint, really. An angle of this scenery […]
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Proses adalah ketika kita. (Process is when we.)
A research project on and around Danarto dkk (‘Danarto and friends’) This is the title of a 1982 text that the late Danarto (b. Sragen, Central Java, 1940; d. Jakarta, 2018) would read in various artist talks, what would today be called his ‘artist statement.’ Where better to begin our journey to unravel Danarto’s practice […]
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Sketches, stitches, and negotiations: Unravelling Indonesia’s national history through its visual representations
Edhi Sunarso may well be the only artist who worked with all regimes, all throughout the time, including after Reformasi. Artists from Sukarno’s era are generally attached, or associated in whatever ways, to the Indonesia Communist Party or its cultural under-bow, LEKRA. This means that during Soeharto’s regime, they would have been either annihilated, silenced, […]
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Senarai, dalam “Pengantar Seni Rupa”, karangan Sudjoko
A adawi— mirip apa-apa yang ada adigung — membanggakan kebesaran diri anganan — 1 apa-apa yang diangankan; 2 hasil anganan, mis. suatu gambar anggit — >> menganggit = mengarang, menggubah, menyusun >> anggitan anta— sifat/khuluk hakiki artikel — dari article, sebutan bagi karangan dalam CD dll. asbun — asal bunyi asor — (ber)mutu rendah, inferior; kuwamula*, kalah awa … […]
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IS IT WORKING?*
On whose TERMS? Under what CONDITIONS? How are these APPLIED? A two-day symposium curated by Cemeti and Hyphen Date/Time 18 & 19 September 2018 09.30-17.00 hrs Lunch and snacks provided by YohanaTitis @kitchenlab.jogja Location Pusat Kajian Islam dan Transformasi Sosial (Yayasan LKiS) Jl. Pura 203, Sorowajan, Bantul, Yogyakarta With contributions by Anang Saptoto, Bakudapan, Brigitta […]
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Four images and a short story
Towards Moelyono’s retrospective exhibition in 2018 In December 2015, Grace interviewed Bonyong Munni Ardhi about his fight against what they call as ‘the old art of Indonesia’ in the 1970s. With a couple of his peers, he was part of the influential Indonesia New Art Movement (1975-1989) that began right after they sent a flower […]
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MASAKAN SEPANJANG ZAMAN* Pameran arsip karya-karya Seni Rupa Baru
Para akademisi dan sejarawan seni nyaris sepakat bahwa GSRBI berpengaruh besar dalam perkembangan seni rupa di Indonesia. Satu-satunya buku yang benar-benar pernah diterbitkan dan didistribusikan kepada publik mengenai mereka adalah buku bertajuk Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru Indonesia (Jakarta: Gramedia, 1979) yang bahannya dikumpulkan, dirancang, dan disunting oleh para eksponennya sendiri. Tak banyak cerita mengenai karya […]
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List of SENI RUPA BARU exhibitions
We have been working on this Seni Rupa Baru research since 2013. Now, we are finally in the process of editing the new 11 essays! They are: Amanda K. Rath; Bambang Bujono; Patrick D. Flores; Hendro Wiyanto; TK Sabapathy; Nuraini Juliastuti; Aminuddin TH Siregar; Mahardika Yudha; Brigitta Isabella and Syafiatudina; and ourselves, Hyphen. Facts, news and essays from within […]
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Regions of the contemporary: Transnational art festivals and exhibitions in 1990s Southeast Asia
Join us in Melbourne for a three-day symposium to reflect on the pivotal, artist-run events that engendered a transnational contemporary art circuit in Southeast Asia in the 1990s. Informed by recent archival research undertaken into Chiang Mai Social Installation (CMSI), an art festival held in northern Thailand, we propose three key questions for discussion during […]
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Freeport Jadi Sponsor, Seniman Peserta Art Jog Terganggu
Disalin dari tempo.co Jum’at, 10 Juni 2016 | 23:00 WIB Shinta Maharani TEMPO.CO, Yogyakarta – Sejumlah seniman yang memamerkan karyanya dalam Art Jog kesembilan di Jogja National Museum mengaku terganggu oleh keberadaan Freeport Indonesia sebagai sponsor bursa pasar seni terbesar di Yogyakarta itu. Salah seorang peserta pameran, Mohamad Yusuf atau Ucup, mengatakan semula tidak tahu […]