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 […]
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 … […]
by Prof. Dr. Sudjoko In a wider sense, art is something that people do everyday; the art of cooking; the art of babysitting; the art of selling; the art of diplomacy; the art of governing; the art of war; etc. Gilbert Highet taught us The Art of Teaching. Ernest Dimnet, The Art of Thinking. And, […]
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 […]
In April 19, 2012, someone randomly uploaded what he might thought as a joke in YouTube. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// On the same day, April 19, 2012, the witty WorldStarHipHop framed it as their WTF Clip Of The Week with the subtitle Woman In Tight Dress Slips On Butter For Twenty Minutes.. Talking About This Is Art! ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Again, on the same day, […]
Majalah mingguan TEMPO, 14 Maret 2016 Sebuah Pertanyaan untuk Jim Supangkat Oleh Hendro Wiyanto (Pengamat Seni Rupa) Pernyataan kurator Jim Supangkat mengenai lukisan-lukisan yang bermasalah di buku The People in 70 Years (Oei Hong Djien Museum, 2016) membikin saya terperangah. Menurut dia, tidak ada kaitan sama sekali antara pameran di Museum OHD ini dan masalah lukisan […]
Pengelola proyek: Ratna Mufida Penyunting: Grace Samboh Pengantar: Hendro Wiyanto Penyelaras aksara: Meiyani Hertanto Peneliti, kolektor teks, dan kolektor gambar: Hyphen Gambar sampul: Agus Suwage Perancang isi dan penata letak: Ratna Mufida, Julian Abraham ‘Togar’ Penerbit: Hyphen, Indonesia, 2015 Buku ini menggunakan kertas Tomako 80gsm, dicetak dengan teknik offset, dan dijilid dengan sistem sempurna. Jenis […]
THE ONE AND THE MANY*: ETHICS AND AESTHETIC PRACTICES IN OUR 21st CENTURY DEMOCRACY 17 – 18 NOVEMBER 2014 At Post-graduate Faculty of Gajah Mada University, Yogayakarta, Indonesia ES 2014 tries to reveal the ecosystem in the associations of the many (artist groups, societal hobby-based groups, business associations, etc) in the arrangement of their lives […]
Approximating was officially launched Saturday, April 26, 2014. Hyphen is one of the contributor for this editorial project. The following content acts as introduction for Approximating, please refer to Disc Lab for updates. “It ‘folds the critical into the networked mode itself’ and speculates the exactness and completeness of the digital driven world, in order […]
Our idea of an unstructured residency is a non-exhibition or non-production oriented form of residencies for artists, curators, researchers, and writers. It is an open platform for art practitioners coming into Yogyakarta with the idea of building a dialogue, a long term relationship, a shared learning process with the local scene. Grace proposed this idea at […]