Showing posts with label Deden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deden. Show all posts
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Deden Durahman's solo exhibition Amorphous Amours
Amorphous Amours
Deden
Hendan Durahman
The body is to be compared,
not to a physical object,
but rather to a work of art.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The
Phenomenology of Perception
For his solo exhibition at RKFA,
Singapore, 17 July – 17 August 2014, Deden Hendan Durahman (Majalaya, Indonesia,
1974) presents his new series Amorphous
Amours (2014): multi-layered choreographies of serial de/re-constructed
and morphed bodies. Reconstruction on the level of
the pixel opens up the possible of the possible; therefore, there is an element
of contingency of what actual forms a concept takes – a pixilated flux of
becoming. The element of contingency of a pixilated flux of becoming
necessitates seriality. If actualizations of disparate fragments is not to
unravel in such a way that all that remains are fractures of the possible then
working in series is needed. A series offers a sense of unity – and meaning –
to fragments. The method of working in/on serial de/re-constructed bodies also
implies repetition. And repetition is key in performativity: body is an
unstable category – body as medium and concept in the work of Deden – over
time, gestural permutations allow for changes to occur. The mediated bodies in
Deden’s work are indexes of performativity. Our bodies are the primary sites of
the expanded field of knowing and remembering – or: ontology of the flesh. Memory
leaves imprints in and on our bodies. One body remembers and reminds another;
memory moves from body to body, re-touching us sensually, re-touching the
unfathomable geography of our bodies – to paraphrase Walt Whitman: For every
pixel belonging to me as good belongs to you…
Roy Voragen
Curator
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Amorphous Amours
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Amorphous Amours
A solo exhibition by Deden HendanDurahman at RKFA, Singapore
Curated by Roy Voragen
Opening: 17 July 2014
Until: 7 August 2014
Artspace@Helutrans
39 Keppel Road
#01-05 Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Singapore 089065
E info@rkfineart.com
T +65 6221 1209
F +65 6221 1249
For the catalog see here.
Monday, July 29, 2013
New Media Art in Southeast Asia: a review of a seminar at ITB
Roy Voragen, "New Media Art in Southeast Asia," in Tempo Magazine, July 14, 2013, pp52-53.
change in 7 days
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change in 7 days
Adhya Ranadireksa
Deden Hendan Durahman
Henrycus Napitsunargo
Sari Asih
SB2013: if the world changed… – National Library
of Singapore
“you
have to be knowingly unsure,
to
seek certitude within the uncertain
and
not pursue the uncertain with false certitude.”
Ho
Rui An, Several Islands
Give us a photograph, or two, or four,
seven is good too – and we depict tales of a city, a city with her bricks and
whispers, her raindrops and candies, her meandering river and sailors, her
brush strokes, her cacophonous soundtrack, her unsung love affairs, her coffee
and cigarettes at the crack of dawn, her green papayas and its odor, her hopes
and ghosts, gentle and wicked…
A city we remember. Cities are not merely
backdrops to the stories we tell each other over and over again, cities are the
fiber that give these stories the much needed bones – and a pulsation, too. A
jazzy pulse, or one of gamelan, or heavy metal, or tango, or hybrids – so many
cities, so many rhythms.
To remember is not the same as to commemorate – archives of
the city are amnesiac zombie entities of our memory. Graveyards are the sites
where memories as we knew them come to an end. Numbered, catalogued, put in
neat folders and cabinets in underground basements, our memories are stored to
collect dust and fungus. A memory with a pulse is a mobile memory, told or
shown to others – countless times given manifold shapes and forms.
With your help, we want to wake up the
archives of the city, the city of Singapore. The archive, then, will be turned
into a library of visual memory of an ever-changing city, rapid but meandering
changes. We want to collect and show the good, the bad & the ugly, the
delicious and wreckage, the uncanny and repressed, happiness and joy of you,
you and you too, and us as well.
Archival materials are re-animated,
opened-up partially, given a second life in our library change in 7 days at the
National Library of Singapore during SB2013 (and perhaps long after there or
elsewhere when we are no longer present). Visual materials are retrieved from
the city’s multiple archives to give you a chance to connect and re-connect,
browse through, borrow memories, point out to one and another stories thought
long lost and recount them anew.
We also invite you to submit images of
you and your city. Wedding photos, graduation party photos, photos of you with
your family or friends and etcetera… And we hope that your personal photos will
be the many jigsaw pieces of a gigantic puzzle that shows a biography of your
city of Singapore, a city, like any other city, with its great many stories and
ambiguities. The gamut of these memoirs cannot be overseen in a single breath.
Moreover, we – Adhya Ranadireksa, Deden
Hendan Durahman, Henrycus Napitsunargo and Sari Asih, all of us are from
Bandung, Indonesia – respond in individual, artistic ways to a selection we
each make of the visual materials salvaged from the archives and the images you
kindly submitted. In so doing, we weave our threads into this city, your city
as our temporary base, a brief home from which we return with memories, our
memento mori on our homecoming to Bandung, a city with a different beat.
Cities, certainly, are only built
metaphorically in 7 days. However, 7 days is ample time to spectacularly
wipe out an entire metropolis with its sinners, specters and samurais of the
face of the earth. 7 days is also
plentiful of time to alter our imagined city. Images can move us – move us to
built a city, multiple cities out of our memory to remember, to be committed
to, jointly…
(I was asked by the four artists to ghostwrite the above text for their project at SB2013.)
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Kristoffer Ardeña - Roma Arts artist-in-residency - Documentation
Bandung, Indonesia, 9 – 23 May 2013
Kristoffer Ardeña
Roma Arts artist-in-residency
In collaboration
with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Irfan Hendrian Studio, Oma Anna Handwork, and
Visual Arts Study Program at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, ITB
Above photo was taken by Deden Hendan Durahman during Kristoffer Ardeña's talk at ITB.
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