Imaging the urban nature by Zen Teh

Imaging the urban nature
Zen Teh

In collaboration with The ARISAN Project, PLATFORM3 presents a talk by Singapore-based artist Zen Teh (zenteh.com; @zen.teh). Zen Teh is an environmental artist who is interested in our relationship with nature. Zen Teh’s art practice is shaped by her proficiency in photography and painting, alongside her continual investigation into interdisciplinary studies on nature and human behavior. The work of Zen Teh comments, through observation, upon the state of nature and our relationship with it, including our representations of nature. Zen Teh aims to raise social awareness of the environment we live in. As an artist, situations where man and nature collide are highlighted. Each work presents a circumstance for the joint reaction of man and the environment. This circumstance is site-specific and individuated, respectful of the subtly varied realities between one person and another.

4 pm, Sunday 30 April 2017

open for public

PLATFORM3
Jalan Cigadung Raya Tengah 40, Bandung
platform3bdg.org
@platform3_bdg

The ARISAN Project
facebook.com/thearisanproject
@thearisanproject2017

poetry workshop&talk at Lasalle, Singapore

The talk (11am, 27 October 2016) at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, is open to the public: http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/events/artist-talk-roy-voragen/

RE-ENTRY#1 Rudi Abdalah

In collaboration with Galeri Gerilya, Roma Arts presents RE-ENTRY#1, a talk with Bandung-based performance artist Rudi Abdalah. April 1, Rudi Abdalah performed at The Substation, Singapore, in a program organized by R.I.T.E.S. or Rooted In The Ephemeral Speak. In this talk, he will discuss his performance piece, what the value is of going abroad and what we can learn from his trip to Singapore and his dealings with The Substation and R.I.T.E.S., which was founded to encourage exchange among performance artists from different backgrounds and generate wider appreciation for performance art.

Moderated by Rifda Amalia

Free admission & open for the public

Friday 28^th of June at 3PM

Galeri Gerilya

Jalan Raden Patah 12, Bandung

www.facebook.com/GaleriGerilya

twitter.com/galerigerilya

Video documentation of Rudi Abdalah's performance at The Substation:
https://vimeo.com/68209543

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/   

Public talk at ITB: Kristoffer Ardeña

Public Talk

Wednesday 15 May, 2pm

Kristoffer Ardeña

Studio Seni Grafis/Intermedia (lantai2)

Visual Art Study Program

ITB

Jalan Ganeca 10, Bandung

Wednesday 15 May, 2pm

Open for the public and free admission (limited seats)

Roma Arts artist-in-resident Kristoffer Ardeña (1976, Dumaguete) lives and works in Madrid/Spain and Manila/Philippines. He has created individual projects in Museo Carrillo Gil and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo del UNAM, both in Mexico, Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila (Philippines), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Murcia), Spain. He has also participated in various collective projects, among them the 3^rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3^rd Guangzhou Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona and La Casa Encendida in Madrid (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain (Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico) and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia).

Termasuk seniman-magang di lingkar Roma Arts, Kristoffer Ardeña (1976, Dumaguete) hidup dan bekerja di Madrid/Spanyol and Manila/Filipina. Proyek-proyek individual yang digagasnya antara lain di Museo Carrillo Gil dan Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo del UNAM, keduanya diselenggarakan di Meksiko, Vargas Museum dan the Cultural Center of the Philippines di Manila (Filipina), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo di Murcia (Spanyol). Ia juga turut ambil bagian di berbagai proyek-proyek kolektif, beberapa di antaranya adalah 3^rd Bucharest Biennale (Rumania), 3^rd Guangzhou Triennale (Cina), Konstholl C di Stokholm (Swedia), Caixa Forum di Barcelona dan La Casa Encendida di Madrid (Spanyol), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain (Luksemburg), Apexart di New York (AS), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Meksiko) dan the Museo de Arte Moderno di Medellin (Kolombia).

(Poster design: Irfan Hendrian)

Talk at SOTA, Singapore

February 28, I gave a talk at the Visual Arts department of SOTA, Singapore.

On Pins and Needles - a selection

On Pins and Needles

Roma Arts artist-in-resident Jef Carnay will present On Pins and Needles at Galeri Gerilya 16 November 5pm. This TUTOK project is a collection of performative videos and live art documentation from around the world.

Friday 16 November 5pm

With impromptu live performances!

Galeri Gerilya

Jalan Raden Patah 12 Bandung

www.facebook.com/GaleriGerilya

twitter.com/galerigerilya

Selection of videos from the On Pins and Needles Project:

Anida Yoeu Ali – 1700% Project

http://onpinsandneedlesproject.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/anida-yoeu-ali-2/

http://1700percentproject.wordpress.com/

Opaline Santos

http://onpinsandneedlesproject.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/opaline-santos-2/

Jef Carnay – Note to self: It can get cold. Keep yourself warm.

http://onpinsandneedlesproject.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/jef-carnay-3/

http://langoyisdalangoy.wordpress.com/

Kosal Khiev – Why I Write

http://onpinsandneedlesproject.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/kosal-khiev-3/

http://spokenkosal.com/

Marcus Vinicius – The artist is warrior

http://onpinsandneedlesproject.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/marcus-vinicius-3/

http://www.marcusvinicius.tk/

On Pins and Needles by Jef Carnay

On Pins and Needles 

Roma Arts artist-in-resident Jef Carnay is a Manila-based performance artist and he will present On Pins and Needles at Galeri Gerilya 16 November 5pm. This TUTOK project is a collection of performative videos and live art documentation from around the world.

onpinsandneedlesproject.wordpress.com

Saturday 16 November 5pm

With impromptu live performances!

Galeri Gerilya

Jalan Raden Patah 12 Bandung

www.facebook.com/GaleriGerilya

twitter.com/galerigerilya

Jef Carnay is a visual and performance artist who  exhibited his works in local and international art galleries, museums and alternative spaces; he performed at both local and international art events; he curated local live art performances. Currently he is one of the board of trustees of the Filipino Visual Arts and Design Rights Organization (FILVADRO), moreover, he is a member of the core committee of TutoK (an artists initiative). He is an active member of NeWorlDisorder, an open, collaborative and loose multimedia art initiative. He is also a convener of the art event 'Bulong', a night of poetry, songs and other performances. And he is the lead vocalist of the band 'earthfishfish'.

Roma Arts, founded in 2011, promotes passionate, ambitious and focused ways of producing, presenting, experiencing, and writing about the diverse forms of arts. Roma Arts gives keen attention to art practices, forms of presentation, experiencing the arts, and discourses on art. In 2012, Roma Arts started a residency program to foster creative person-to-person contacts.

Jef Carnay’s Roma Arts residency is supported by Valentine Willie Fine Art

Some thoughts on Public Art/Public Space roundtable discussion at Common Room, 21 September

Spaces and places frame life; furthermore, the ways we use these spaces and places are framed by the ways we talk about them. When the stories we tell and are being told about our cities gain a sense of inevitability they become oppressing. There always are – and should be – alternative ways of looking at our cities. Two perspectives on cities that might be relevant for our discussion: first, creative cities (see my essay: http://bit.ly/PdjAmg); second, the right to the city (see my essay: http://bit.ly/OrrT1o; a third perspective is that of the global city, which isn’t too relevant for our discussion). Discussions on creative cities often center on the idea of the creative class (Richard Florida); however, if we speak about the creative class we have to speak about classes and, therefore, conflicts, which are all too often overlooked. While I’m attracted to the call for the right to the city (Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey), I also see that such a call tends to overlook that the streets of are not vacant (especially in Indonesian cities). Both these perspectives can easily be manipulated into apolitical marketing tools (city branding: art and architecture to beautify the city to attract tourists). How can our practices and ideas contribute to public space? And public space is here understood as political, thus how to make public space more inclusive as well as more antagonistic?

Public Art/Public Space: Art, architecture and everyday life - roundtable discussion at Common Room

Public Art/Public Space
Art, architecture & everyday life

A roundtable discussion at Common Room Networks Foundation

Jl. Kyai Gede Utama no. 8, Bandung, Indonesia

Twitter: @CommonRoom_ID

http://commonroom.info/

Common Room Networks Foundation in collaboration with Roma Arts

The roundtable discussion is part of NU Substance festival

21 September 2012, 3pm

Participants:

• Gustaff Iskandar – founder and director of Common Room Networks Foundation: http://commonroom.info/ and http://gstff.wordpress.com/
• Marco Kusumawijaya – architect, urbanist, founder and director of Rujak Center of Urban Studies: http://rujak.org/ and http://mkusumawijaya.wordpress.com/
• Heru Hikayat – curator and member of Platform3: http://infoplatform3.wordpress.com/
• Rika Febriyani – urbanist and philosopher: www.warungjakarta.blog.com and www.youtube.com/user/RikaAndSilviaProject/videos
• Muhammad Albaiquni Zico – artist: http://zicoalbaiquni.blogspot.com/ 

Moderator:

• Roy Voragen – Bandung-based writer and founder of Roma Arts

Public art can take different forms. Firstly, it can take the form of publicly funded statues to signify a coherent narrative of the nation, e.g. statues of national heroes like General Sudirman (when such a narrative of the nation changes then those statues are often taken down, as in the former Soviet countries happened when a great many Lenins and Stalins were symbolically taken down). Secondly, it can take the form, as stipulated by law in some countries, that a certain minimum percentage of the construction budget of large projects should be spend on art. These two forms could, at best, be ways to beautify the city. And a beautiful city can be pleasant, however, it is questionable that these two forms of public art will lead to a more democratic public space. The third form of public art takes the form of fleeting interventions in the city, e.g. installations or graffiti. Often these are considered vandalism (some years ago a work by Tisna Sanjaya was destroyed by the government in Bandung as it was labeled trash). But why isn’t the renovation of the Hotel Indonesia Circle by former governor Gen. Sutiyoso considered vandalism? Can art and architecture influence behavior so that the quality and quantity of democratic public space could improve? Or are we then asking too much of art and architecture?

Materials on ‘Public Art/Public Space – Art, architecture and everyday life’:

http://www.box.com/s/d7kgvxae6t87kj6bhj4l

Marika Constantino gave a talk about 98B at Common Room

July 4, Manila-based visual artist Marika Constantina gave a talk at Common Room Networks Foundation (http://commonroom.info/) about 98B Art COLLABoratory (http://www.98-b.org/). We had a good discussion, we shared ideas and experiences. Firstly, on why we need places like Common Room (Bandung) and 98B (Manila). Second, on how we can sustain these place (financially, organization and concerning ideas). Thirdly, on how we can foster ties between Bandung and Manila.

Gustaff (director Common Room) tweeted live during the discussion: http://chirpstory.com/li/12514

More photos:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.235193756600745.50729.127180300735425&type=3

Roma Arts presents in collaboration with Common Room a talk by Marika Constantino on 98B, 4July 15:00

Roma Arts presents

in collaboration with Common Room Networks Foundation

4 July at 15.00

A talk by Marika B. Constantino

Marika B. Constantino will talk about artist initiative space 98-B in Manila, the Philippines (http://www.98-b.org/)

Moderared by Roy Voragen (founder Roma Arts – http://fatumbrutum.blogspot.com/)

At:

Common Room Networks Foundation

Jl. Kyai Gede Utama no. 8, Bandung, Indonesia

Twitter: @CommonRoom_ID
http://commonroom.info

Free admission

Marika B. Constantino shares 98B’s experiences, challenges and possibilities in running an alternative art space in Manila, Philippines.  98B is a multi-disciplinary COLLABoratory.  It seeks to collaborate with artists, designers, curators, writers, musicians, filmmakers, activists, educators, researchers, cultural workers, performers, architects and students together with the general public.  Marika B. Constantino will share 98B’s projects and initiatives in the hopes of creating ties, facilitating exchanges and generating dialogues with other creative individuals in Bandung.

Marika B. Constantino is a visual artist who has participated in exhibitions in the Philippines and abroad. As a freelance writer, she has contributed to a number of publications. She shares her various experiences in the art practice to a wider audience as an educator and an independent curator.  Her early exposure to art and her boundless fascination for the creative process resulted with a degree from the UP College of Architecture, and she continued her studies at the UP College of Fine Arts, with Art History as her major. Marika B. Constantino is continually striving to balance the cerebral, conceptual and experiential aspects of art with life in general.  Currently, she is the Special Projects Head of 98B COLLABoratory.