Thursday, September 14, 2006
Todays bandung Art 2006
Exhibition from 10 to 30 September 2006
Place: Common Room/TOBUCIL, Jl. Kyai Gede Utama No. 8, Bandung
Time: 10 AM to 4 PM
Pameran Seni Bandung Masa Kini 2006 menampilkan beberapa karya para seniman dan ilmuwan Bandung dalam kurun waktu 10 tahun terakhir, selain juga menampilkan karya-karya dari para seniman manca negara. Selain memamerkan seri karya boneka Barbie milik Tiarma Sirait, pameran ini juga menampilkan beberapa karya gambar, seni lukis, benda-benda, fotografi, video, cetak digital dan robot cerdas yang secara sepintas akan menampilkan kecenderungan perkembangan praktik seni terkini di kota Bandung, maupun beberapa tempat di belahan dunia yang lain. Selain itu, pameran ini juga menampilkan karya robot dari Kelompok Studi Robot Cerdas -UNIKOM, juga karya origami dan kerajinan yang merupakan buah tangan dari aktifitas Klab Origami dan Klab Hobi di Common Room.
Karya-karya yang ditampilkan merupakan karya pilihan yang sedikit banyak merefleksikan aura nostalgia, sekaligus mimpi absurd mengenai masa depan. Beberapa dari karya yang ada juga mencerminkan berbagai pandangan mengenai persoalan ruang urban yang tersaturisasi oleh pengaruh globalisasi di bidang politik dan ekonomi, selain juga terpengaruh oleh perkembangan di bidang teknologi dan budaya media. Beberapa seniman Indonesia yang terlibat dalam pameran ini merupakan figur-figur yang selama ini juga dikenal aktif berkarya dan berpameran di luar negeri. Malahan, beberapa diantaranya telah mengganti status kewarganegaraan mereka karena selama ini merasa terancam secara ekonomi dan politik, selain beberapa diantaranya juga tengah dikejar oleh kasus hutang-piutang yang gawat di Indonesia maupun di beberapa negara.
Beberapa seniman eksil yang karyanya ditampilkan di dalam pameran ini antara lain adalah: Tiarma Sirait (Amerika Serikat), R.E. Hartanto (Afrika Selatan), Dewi Aditia (Canada), OQ (Republik Mali), Gustaff H. Iskandar (Zambia), Roumy Handayani Pesona (Tajikistan) , Andar Manik (Korea Utara) dan Sir Dandy Original (Pantai Gading). Sementara itu, karya seni video yang ditampilkan dalam pameran ini merupakan karya para seniman yang berasal dari New Zealand, Austria, Denmark, Malaysia, India dan Indonesia. Karya mereka akan diputar secara bergiliran selama pameran berlangsung. Adapun beberapa seniman video yang karyanya ikut ditampilkan adalah: VideoBabes (Indonesia), Cerahati (Indonesia), Muhammad Akbar (Indonesia), Nanna Debois Buhl (Denmark), Tamar Guimares (Denmark), Klaus Ohad Said Auderer (Austria), Nilanjan Bhattacharya (India), Daniel Malone, Sriwhana Spong, Kah Bee Chow, Catherine Garet, Janet Lilo, Stella Brennan, Kirsty Cameron, Nova Paul (New Zealand), Prilla Tania (Indonesia) dan ruangrupa (Indonesia). Selain itu, juga akan diputar kompilasi video `Recurring Spaces' (dari Displacement Project Bandung- Singapore 2006), yang menampilkan karya dari Banung Grahita; (IKAL) Chairine Stevanny, Fitriani K.D., Annisa S., Fini Kania; Erik M. Pauhrizi; Gembi & Ageng (Pemuda Elektrik); Muhammad Reggie Aquara; OQ Adiredja; Rizaldi Fakhruddin; Tisa Granicia & Budi Adi Nugroho; dan Yusuf Ismail. (gustaff)
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Monday, September 11, 2006
A letter to a young Poet
So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better. In you, so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has to watch over himself. But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait. And that is what you, insofar as you are your own doctor, must now do, more than anything else.
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
--The Special Two--
I have hardly been outside my room in days,Coz I don't feel that I deserve the sunshines rays.
The darkness helped until the whiskey wore away,
And it was then I realised the conscience never fades.
When i was young i have this image of my life,
That i'll be scrupulous and one day even make a wife.
And i make boundaries i never dream to cross,
And if i happen to, i wake completely lost.
I remember someone old once said to me,
That lies will lock you up, with truth the only key.
But I was comfortable and warm inside my shell,
And couldn't see this place could soon become my hell.
So is it better to tell and hurt, or lie to save their face?
Well I guess the answer is don't do it in the first place.
I know im not deserving of your trust from you right now,
But if by chance you change your mind,
You know I will not let you down,
Coz we were the special two and will be again...
I'll step ouside my minds eyes, for a minute,
And I look over me like a doctor looking for disease
Or somethin that could ease the pain.
But nothin cures the hurt that you bring on by yourself
Just remembering, just remebering how we were...
Missy Higgins
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