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At the back of the canvas
A special presentation in ARTJOG 2023 Motif: Lamaranof Kustiyah’s works (b. Probolinggo, 1935; d. Yogyakarta, 2012)by Hyphen— “Kustiyah, an ASRI student, painted the scenery of Tegal beach.” This was what accompanied a portrait in SIASAT magazine, issue 484th, September 1956. Submitted by a resident of Kalibuntu, Tegal, the portrait depicted a young woman painting on […]
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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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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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Editorial project: Approximating
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 […]