Looking at the Big Sky - video art from Germany

'Looking at the Big Sky' is a traveling program by Goethe Institut (http://www.goethe.de) of 14 videos by students from four art schools in Germany: Braunschweig University of Art, Düsseldorf Art Academy, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. The selection was made by Renate Buschmann (http://www.imaionline.de/) and Leonhard Emmerling. The videos range from fictional narratives and stagings to individual assertions and performances, from found-footage montages to pseudo documentaries. At the same time, two major perspectives crystallize in the works: 'The Beauty of the Familiar' aim towards personal introspection that divines meaning in the inconspicuous and unspectacular, 'Departures for Tomorrow' encompasses films seeking to formulate an outlook on the immeasurable and indeterminate. The choice of 'Looking at the Big Sky' is associated with the hope that the ideas and illusions knows no boundaries, that the sky is the limit. At the same time, it sounded like an appeal to the participating artists to venture a look at longings, utopias and great aspirations, and to think the existing concepts of authenticity and beauty beyond the present.

Opening: Friday 10 October, 2014, 7pm

Talk: Saturday 18 October, 2014

Speakers: Melati Suryodarmo & Deden Hendan Durahman

Duration: until Thursday 30 October, 2014

PLATFORM3

Jalan Cigadung Raya Tengah no.42, Bandung

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At PLATFORM3, organized by Rizki Lazuardi and Roy Voragen

Dear Curator Curate Me: postscript - questions raised during the roundtable discussion at Cemeti Art House

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The discussion on Dear Curator Curate Me (a travelling

--> project by the nomadic visual artist Kristoffer Ardeña) at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia, 19 May 2013, with curators Rizki Lazuardi and Chabib Duta Hapsoro, focused on the artist-curator relationships. The discussion at Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on the other hand, focused on the curatorial text. For Yogyakarta,  --> the following curators were invited: Mira Asriningtyas, Pitra Hutomo and Grace Samboh.

Here are some of the questions that arose during the discussion at Cemeti Art House (5 April 2014):

1.     Why ask curators to include all the 15 videos?

2.     Why can’t curators select videos she or he wants to curate?

3.     Why can’t curators add more videos in the selection? Curators felt like they were given an assignment instead of a challenge.

4.     Is Kristoffer Ardeña acting as a meta-curator? How is Dear Curator Curate Me an artistic project?

5.     Are different models possible to express curatorial intentions? Is it possible to make a video as a curatorial discourse instead of writing a text?

6.     A researcher in the audience posed an interesting point on the dilemma and difficulties of gathering data from past exhibitions, if curators would opt to make non-text-based curatorial discourses, how would this facilitate research on these exhibitions in the future?

7.     What are the functions of texts within curatorial practices?

8.     What are the relationships between the curator and the artist(s)/artworks/exhibitions to the curatorial text? How to engage with artists and their art as a curator?

9.     Who reads curatorial essays? Who is our audience? Is there enough of a critical mass?

10.  What are the relationships between the curator and the public in relation to the curatorial text?

11.  Should curators write curatorial texts that are readily understandable by the general public?

12.  Is there such a thing as a curatorial art writing style?

New Media Art in Southeast Asia: a review of a seminar at ITB

For my review see here:
Roy Voragen, "New Media Art in Southeast Asia," in Tempo Magazine, July 14, 2013, pp52-53.

Dear Curator Curate Me: Chabib Duta Hapsoro & Rizki Lazuardi

Dear Curator Curate Me: Chabib Duta Hapsoro and Rizki Lazuardi

Selasar Sunaryo Art Space (http://www.selasarsunaryo.com/) 19 May-8 June 2013

Dear Curator Curate Me is a project by Kristoffer Ardeña.

The booklet is designed by Irfan Hendrian and hand-made by Oma Anna. The limited edition booklet can be downloaded here (Issuu) and here (Box).

Dear Curator Curate Me in Indonesia is coordinated by Roma Arts (http://fatumbrutum.blogspot.com/).

Kristoffer Ardeña selected 15 videos and this selection travels around the world, each place where this selection makes a stop a curator is invited to develop a discourse on these videos. Dear Curator Curate Me at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space is this project’s debut, which will continue in the Philippines, Spain, Peru, etc. This project reverses the roles of the artist and the curator in a witty manner by emphasizing the curatorial essay. This traveling project aims to show how in different contexts around the globe curators can respond to the same collection of videos and slowly this project will turn into an archive of a curatorial discourse with its many contrasting voices.

 – Roy Voragen (project coordinator Dear Curator Curate Me Indonesia & Roma Arts)

Dear Curator Curate Me: Chabib Duta Hapsoro and Rizki Lazuardi

19 May 3pm, Roma Arts artist-in-resident Kristoffer Ardeña (1976, Philippines) will present Dear Curator Curate Me at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space with Chabib Duta Hapsoro and Rizki Lazuardi as the curators. Kristoffer selected 15 videos and this selection travels around the world, each place where this selection makes a stop a curator is invited to develop a discourse on these videos. Dear Curator Curate Me at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space is this project’s debut, which will continue in the Philippines, Spain, Peru, etc. This project reverses the roles of the artist and the curator in a witty manner by emphasizing the curatorial essay. This traveling project aims to show how in different contexts around the globe curators can respond to the same collection of videos and slowly this project will turn into an archive of a curatorial discourse with its many contrasting voices.

The opening will be officiated by Pak Krisna Murti and the opening will be followed by a curatorial talk at which the artist is present.

For more information:

Selasar Sunaryo Art Space: http://www.selasarsunaryo.com/   

Ghost - curated by Rizki Lazuardi

Ghost is an exhibition curated by Rizki Lazuardi at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space in collaboration with Roma Arts and Dear Curator Curate Me, the exhibition opens May 19, 2013.

Coming soon! Dear Curator Curate Me: Chabib Duta Hapsoro & Rizki Lazuardi

Selasar Sunaryo Art Space and Roma Arts present the exhibition ‘Dear Curator Curate Me: Chabib Duta Hapsoro and Rizki Lazuardi’, which will run from 19 May until 8 June at Ruang Sayap (Wing Gallery), Selasar Sunaryo Art Space. On opening day there will be a curatorial talk. Dear Curator Curate Me is the brainchild of the Filipino-Spanish artist Kristoffer Ardeña. Kristoffer Ardeña will conduct an artist-in-residency at Roma Arts, he will be present at the opening of ‘Dear Curator Curate Me: Chabib Duta Hapsoro & Rizki Lazuardi’ and he will also give a talk at ITB’s art school, 15 May at 2pm.