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Born in Yogyakarta, Angki Purbandono is an artist that is best known for his bottomless creativity in the art of scannography. As practitioners of such art are still hard to find in the country, Angki is often invited to showcase his works abroad through solo exhibitions. Born on 24 September 1971, Angki has once been invited by the Fukuoka Arts Museum in Japan and conducted an exhibition in London, England. A graduate of Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta, he began creating scannographic artworks in 2005. He has received a scholarship to study at the National Arts Museum in Seoul, South Korea. He acknowledges that the background for his current art is his formal education in photography at Institut Seni Indonesia in Yogyakarta.

 Texts written on a thousand rupiahs paper money are comments of the money carrier him/herself. We can find some comments that answer another comment, or the ones not related to the others. The money is wrinkled because we do not keep it in the wallet. But it often travels from one hand to another. It’s dull, crumpled, wrinkled. And so is the fate of the carrier, the low class people.

Born in Serbia in 1976, Ivana Stojakovic is an artist currently residing in Bandung who is also actively engaged in photography and performing arts. A former children’s magazine editor, she has participated in a number of exhibitions, among others: Miris Duse: experimental conceptual photography at Vladislav Marzik Gallery in Kraljevo, a performance titled Soul of Tarawangsa at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space in Bandung, Indonesia, dan Scenting: experimental conceptual photography at Galeri E’sp art, Bandung and Galeri Coral, Yogyakarta.

This work of art represents the movement of individuals. They are worried, they meet, they are clashed in their way up to achieve their obsession and desire. There is also, their uncontrolled passion that fills a narrowed, hot room.

Urban signs can be used to explain material reality as well as the immaterial one. It is just the sign looks ironic. However, that is the way to change the interpretation of urban material reality signs.

 

Title: God is a DJ

Medium: Installation of mixed media: video art, digital jockey, interior design

Year: 2011

This work is an attempt of transforming literature text into visual text. The “place” in the source text is Manhattan, NY, given the image as a “place” connoting location. It is interpreted as an image of “space” denoting imaginary. In the imaginary frame occurs Fadmi’s conversation with Umar Kayam’s  A Thousand Fireflies in Manhattan.

 

Title: Fireflies in Manhattan

Medium: Painting, 40 X 70 cm. Water-base paint, charcoal on a softboard

Year: 2011

He is a film and soaps actor, singer, and presenter born in Bandung, 1987. He has made some short movies and some of his works has been displayed in numbers of fine art exhibitions. This year he participates in A Room of Her Own, Dimensi Gallery, Surabaya and Love/Lies (Secret), Portico Terrace Café and Gallery, Jakarta. Previously, he participated in Exhibition about the Indonesia Young Artist, Cheongju, South Korea (2009), No Wall Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan (2009), The Second God, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta (2010).

Adopting Clara Ng’s pop novel, “Barbie”. This movie tells about a café waiter’s feeling of love to a home-singer, which is not reciprocated.

 

Specification of film

“Barbie”

Video

2010

This work inspired by Happy Salma’s short story called “Fatamorgana”. In this modern era everybody can create fata morgana to be represented by others through social media. This work will be represented interactively.

 

Title: Fatamorgana

Medium: Multimedia Installation

Year: 2011

 

A shop can be identified and associated with urban culture. Urban culture is the background of every problem shadowed humans these days. Toko Satu Buku is a collective art project that puts forward multi-interpretation on urban culture through text offered by curator, using Ayu Utami’s novel, Saman.

 

Title: One Book Shop

Medium: Installation

Year: 2011

Sandra Nyberg, born in 1977, lives and works in Pargas, Finland. She paints, captures photos and does environmental art project. Sandra learned and trained herselves in Netherlands and Australia until she returned to the roots in Finland’s archipelago. Nyberg’s works hav been seen in exhibitions and art events in Finand and abroad, for example in Denmark, Indonesia and Australia.

“Subjective Drawings 2011” is a work based on the subjective experience of the written text. A short story by Finnish writer Rosa Liksom turned into abstract lines EEG, commenting on the impossible task of visually interpreting a work written without acknowledging the importance of personal experience and involvement emotionally. However, the lines are constantly moving also symbolizes life in a multi-ayered megaciti (?), a constant stream of impulses—slow or fast, relaxed or tense. In the subjective picture, she tried to emphasize the subjective experience as an important part of the wider context.

 

Born in 1987 in Passau, Germany, she completed her study in Printmaking Study, Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria in 2010 where in 2009 she also graduated from art school at the Akademie der Bildenden, Kunste Nurnberg, Germany. Continuing her career in fine art with residential artists in some countries, she has been attending many art exhibitions in Germany and Austria, among others Road to Nowhere, Grundstein7, Vienna, Austria an Planerfullung, AEG Nurnberg, Germany.

Adapted from a book, “Holzfallen: Eine Erreging”, written by Thomas Bernhard (Austria), The Woodpecker is a picture of Jakarta’s environmental issues. Trees that lying down is a symbol of all the environmental problems in Jakarta, which is not appreciated the existence of city park, the trees are often cut to open land availability for residential and urban public facilities.

Ucu Agustin is a cum journalist writer and documentary filmmaker. Actively writing since she was in college in Institute Islamic Studies (IAIN Jakarta Hidyatullah Sharif) and become a contributor and member of the Society of Writers News Monitor since 2000. Her great interest to the journalism and interest in the documentary made ​​her decide to learn audio-visual by herself at the end of 2005. on December 2005, her short documentary film script entitled Death In Jakarta won JiFFest Script Development Competition, and since then she continues to make a documentary film to February 2009, the documentary Ragat'e Anak that joined in the anthology of Pertaruhan (international title: At Stake, produced by Kalyana Shira Foundation) took her to the Berlinale Film Festival. At Stake became Indonesia's first documentary film that goes in session at Panorama Documente, the oldest film festival after Cannes, which was held in Germany.

Death, especially in Jakarta, is so common. It can be seen in the way the corpse are treated in a hospital located in Jakarta. The corpses are sprawling, covered by woven mat, not being treated well.

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