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Citizen and Homo Ludens

Ambi-Text is a group of Yogyakartan designers although some of them now live in Jakarta. They are used to work on design project in public space mixing design, fine art, and social issues. They use flexible materials, including waste. To them, an expression of art can be very functional and involves public participation.

This group prepares a kind of toy made from used iron in colorful paint. The cubical form is fun to climb, and play with. Another one is a kind of chair. Those are placed in open hall under flyover, like in Grogol and Jalan Lodan, Jakarta. The kids who often pass by can use it for playing ground.

 

This professional design group was found in Jakarta in 2004. They try to synchronize design and fine art. They have been working on various design products, home accessories, artwork , and fashion. The member’s work tend to be customized, using locale values, and material in public space such as water pipes, wire, and umbrella. In Taman Menteng, Central Jakarta, they made a big installation of traditional toy bird that is forgotten in big cities. Using wire and kinetic element surprise, this artwork attempts to act as a bridge for traditional games, public space problems nowadays and the touch of game that is always needed by humans.

Close Act Theatre Company was found in Netherland, 1991. It is a street theatre group that used to collaborate with designers, actors, dancers, choreographers, even musicians. Their visual creation style shows a unique character.

Saurus is one of their works that presents dinosaurs thought to be extinct in 21st century. This play has been performed at International Street Theater Festival in Athens and Hi Seoul Festival. Saurus is brought to Jakarta to be performed at Erasmus Huis, Bundaran Hotel Indonesia during car-free day, Fatahillah Park, Ayodya Park, and Indonesia National Gallery. The sensation of a show, public crowd, and visual surprise of dinosaurs from Clos Act Theatre promises a “provocation” to Jakarta’s public.

Heri Dono is undoubtedly one of the top-flight Indonesian artists. He began his career in the 1980s, and is often invited to speak in workshops in various countries. He was a keynote speaker at IMPACT7: International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference in Monash University, Melbourne, and at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) in Adelaide, Australia. He has also exhibited his works abroad, including in London and Hong Kong.

Many of his works have been influenced by or alluded to the art of wayang performance. Utilizing multimedia, he has made wayang both as a medium as well as a piece of work that deals with different issues with which he has been concerned.

Born in Bandung in 1970, she is a multimedia artist turned sculptor that harbors a great interest on characteristic aspects of humans. A graduate of ISI Yogyakarta and IKIP Yogyakarta, she has lived and studied art in Germany, Singapore, England, as well as a number of other countries. Some of her works have been exhibited both within the country and abroad, among others the Up To You exhibition at Kedai Kebun in Yogyakarta and Indonesia Eyes at Saatchi Gallery in London.

Jalan Baru is a group from Bogor, West Java consists of Yana WS, Tommy Faisal Alim, Jono Sugihartono, Sispaendo, and Bastian. They are used to work on public as well as indoor fine art projects. Their works tend to be flexible and break through the limitation of materials, approaches, and ideas.

They make use the main lobby of Gambir Station to display their works including sculptures, installation, and functional things. Part of the materials are recycled waste. Their works talk about time, journey, and many kinds of drama lives related with train station. 

Most of the members are alumni of IKJ’s Fine Art that has been devoted to different careers such as painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and fashion designer. With such background, their language of art is liquid and free that includes installations, paintings, murals, animation videos, sculptures, and designs. Sometimes, there is also dance, lighting, and sound.

This group build a bridge on a small river in the middle of a park on Jalan Padang---Minangkabau, Manggarai, Jakarta. It is made from bamboo and not only used as a crossover but also an architectural and esthetic recreation. It becomes a kind of temporary functional art object and subject.”

KPK here does not stand for Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi---Corruption Eradication Commision---but Kelompok Pecinta Kertas or Paper Lover Group. It has thousand members organized through Facebook. They usually work on art projects by making use paper waste.

This time KPK will mobilize about a thousand of its members to make many kinds of models using paper waste: animals, monsters, humans. Those models will be put in underpass between Kota Station and Trans Jakarta Terminal in Kota, Central Jakarta. In a unique way, they will make the corridor looks lively and interactive.

This KPK’s project proves that paper waste can be recycled into useful things, even transformed to be an interactive artwork that involves public and to fill a public space.

 

Atap Alis is an art community located in heavily populated area in Kampung Rambutan, East Jakarta. It was founded in December 2006 and comprises art as well as social activists that develop social practices such workshop and exhibition. Such relationship will eventually form cooperation, knowledge and resource exchange organized together.

This group prepares a “models museum” that includes many kinds of models made by children at the workshop. The materials are domestic and industrial waste. This form of art does not only invite interaction and public participation, but also made as educational instrument, environment campaign, and an attempt to build social harmony. 

WPAP (Wedha Pop Art Portrait) is a community of artists dwelled in Blok M and Barito, South Jakarta. They develop portrait illustration in the form of colorful mosaics. They make the world pop art style more relaxed and applied on T-shirts, posters, mugs, or another painting.

This community will display its newest project at Ayodya Park, South Jakarta. It is the portrait of people in that area like artists, poets, Betawi figures, singers, peddlers, shoe shine boys or beggars. The portrait is printed in big scale and displayed on park’s pillars with a unique style. There is unison of fine art, local residence, illustration style, and city park.

Quint, Propagraphic, Begoendal, Reflect, dan Egauseless are groups of street artists that have made a lot of murals in Jakarta. Although all of them create artworks in street art form, they have different expressions. They will coat the abandoned monorail pillars stand along Senayan---Manggala Wanabhakti with graffiti or mural. It will be a kind of an invitation to Jakartans to realized issues and problems in Jakarta.

Begoendal talks about people shouting their own problems such as politicians, parliament members, students, socialites, and religious people in its works. Egauseless and Quint depicts urban people celebrating a city lifestyle that full of paradoxes.

Established in 2009 in Jakarta, Reflect has participated in a number of exhibitions together with other artists, namely in Apa Ini, Apa Itu Art Exhibition along Pantai Lepang Klungkung, Bali, Vinyl Attack: Street Art Exhibition at Gardu House, Jakarta, PAT – Propagraphic Movement in Dukuh Atas, Jakarta, and Ragad Street Art Exhibition in Tűzraktér, Budapest, Hungary. The most recent exhibition was the Rites of Passage at the Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada, the USA. Reflect, on the other hand, depicts dysutopia urban society that is curious about other’s problems. 

Sabil was born in Makasar in 1977 and attended Hasanudin Makasar University majoring in Indonesian Literature, and majoring dance at Jakarta Art Institute (IKJ). Aidil Usman who was born in Padang, West Sumatra, in 1970 is a choreographer likes to use various medium. Popy Parisa is young choreographer often deals with urban issues.

The three of them collaborate to make a performance about fine art choreography at Ciliwung River near Pasar Baru, Central Jakarta. The power of dance and visual are combined with the touch of Iriantine Karnaya who brings pieces of human body sculptures.

They present a work that has the basis of dance, fine art, river, and crowded market’s power. The theme is Jakarta’s problem as “maximum city”: waste, violence, religious dilemma, technology contradiction, and people’s urban lifestyle. Their work is called Death River and Self-Purifying Rites.

Serum was found in 2006. It was started from a group of Fine Art students at Jakarta State University. Now this community is more opened, allowing public to join them. They often create works in public space such as murals, graffiti, cartoons, or comics.

This community will decorate the interior of Tanjung Priok—Beos—Pasar Senen—Manggarai—Jatinegara train, campaigning the proper way in using train. It was started from a discussion between KRLmania and FX Harsono, one of New Fine Art Movement artists, and now they have produced slogan stickers for the train interior.

Teater Bejana was found by Daniel Hariman Jacob, Felencia, Chaca, In Bene, Dinda, Ayu, and Jaja in May 19th 2002. They started their debut in April 2003, performed a play called Women’s Liquid by Riris K Toha Sarumpaet. They often combine theatre, music, dance and painting.

They have performed Andre Rousin’s Pregnant at Gedung Kesenian Jakarta. In February 2004, they performed Kwee Tek Hoay ‘s The Rose from Tjikembang at Taman Ismail Marzuki. In August 2004, they performed Watching Cap Go Meh at Balai Sarbini, celebrating the birthday of Emas Pemuda Tridarma. In 2010 they performed The Thief of Heart adapted from Kwee Tek Hoay’s The Thief and Asep Sambodja’s Limbuk Wants to Get Married. It was both directed by Daniel Hariman Jacob.

This time they will perform Kwee Tek Hoay’s classic script called Watching Cap Go Meh to commemorate 150-year Kwee Tek Hoay. He was born in July 31, 1886. He was the youngest child of Kwee Tjiam Hong, a Chinese medicine trader who later opened a textile store, and lived in Bogor, West Java. He was a trader, educator, writer, printer, as well as publisher of his own books.

 

A Narration from Bamboo Construction by Teater Studio Indonesia is a reaction to mass violence and wildness in Indonesia lately, including the ones using religious justification. The performance relies on “gunungan wayang”---a form resembles mountain used to end a wayang performance 8-meter-high and 16-meter-long. This installation stage was made of bamboo carried from Serang, Banten.

This performance was inspired from the tradition of old pre-Hindu, Hindu and Islam. It develops the esthetic of violence metaphors. Silat Terumbu, Egrang, Bebegig, Lais, Beluk, and Pecut are supported by field music using bamboo instruments, Terbang Gede, Calung Renteng, Angklung Buhun, Kokoprak dan Dogdog Lojor. Everything reacts to violence that rules human’s aggressive desire that ruins the spirit of civilization.

Teater Studio Indonesia is a theatre group of youths from Serang, Banten. They often mizing national culture and modern theatre language. The director is Nandang Aradea.

The Light Surgeons is a group from London that develops multimedia art. Their works include films, moving and printed graphics, photography, installations, exhibitions and live performances. For the last 15 years they have been helping in creating new forms of cross course practice from a spectacular cinema, big exhibition in museums and creating in digital films.

They have developed wide spectrum works such commercial clients and cultural institution from various projects. It take them to creative industry and keep challenging themselves in collaborating with anyone.

They will present a project called LDN-Redux at Salihara Theatre, Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta. It is an experimental show with multilayer audio visual, exploring London scenery and architecture.

This group consists of Herry Kardjono, Aryo Hendrasto, and Dreananda, which is headquartered in Kemang, South Jakarta. They are a lot of work on the project design of products and for the fine art and applied.

They will make a punch line "maximum city" mounted on public space in Central Jakarta. This punch lines describes the condition of Jakarta's congested, and sparked a lot of problems and challenges. Problem creating problems for the citizens of the city, while the challenge of sparking creativity for those who look at this problem of  more positive side

Tisna Sanjaya was born in Bandung in 1958. After graduating from Bandung Technology Institute majoring in Graphic Art, he attended Diplom Freie Kunsthochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig, Germany. Today he is taking doctoral program at Indonesia Art Institute (ISI), Yogyakarta.

Although he has graphic art background, he is an artist well-known for developing multimedia works. Some of his works are society-base art social projects and was produced together with the society. One of them is Cigondewah project in South Bandung, providing support for society in preserving local tradition from industrial attack.

He collaborated with Atap Alis in Kampung Rambutan, East Jakarta to create public art. Together with local children and youths, he applied social fine art strategy that emphasized the bond between a society and its environment.

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