Awas! Do not flirt, please... (work in progress)

An ongoing found poem based on texts as seen in the streets of Singapore (2016-2021), see here.
[Updated 1 November 2016.]

YOUR LIPS StUttER

My poem YOUR LIPS StUttER is published on the website of Gauss-PDF (downloadable PDF).

#superduperdecorativeart manifesto

#superduperdecorativeart manifesto

book design by Endira FJ
published by Langgeng Art Foundation
email me to acquire a copy
for more photos see here

Artist talk Syaiful Garibaldi

What if? - Wiyoga Muhardanto at ABHK'16

ROH Projects presents Wiyoga Muhardanto's latest project titled What if? at ABHKs Discovery Section, for my curatorial text see here.

Out of Joint - DiaLoGue Art Space, Jakarta

DiaLoGue Art Space is proud to present the group exhibition Out of Joint. This show presents the latest works of Yogyakarta-based artists Rudi – aka Rudi Lampung – Hermawan (http://rudihermawan.weebly.com/), Prihatmoko Moki (http://prihatmokomoki.com/), and Malcolm Smith (he is originally from Australia but he has been residing in Indonesia for many years, http://www.invisibleman.net.au/). In 2013, the three contemporary artists founded the studio and exhibition space Krack Studi (http://www.krackstudio.com/) right in the middle of the exciting art district of Yogyakarta. Krack! focuses on printmaking, specifically silkscreen printing, and it has been able to push the medium of printmaking to keep it very alive and kicking. This exhibition aims to show the versatility of the silkscreen printing technique. Moreover, for the group show at DiaLoGue Art Space, the three artists show as individual artists – they have created collective and collaborative works in the past as well (and they will continue to do so in the future) – they present new works that explore the fluid and everyday contradictions of modernity and modernization: the contradictions of modern labor, memory and desire. The show runs from March 16 to April 10, 2016. For my curatorial essay see here.

ILOVEYOUVIRUS

Quiescent - solo exhibition by Syaiful Garibaldi at ROH Projects

Quiescent - solo exhibition by Syaiful Garibaldi (aka Tepu) at ROH Projects
opens Saturday 13 February
I contributed a concrete poem to the catalog, see here

This is not an apple... artist talk

PLATFORM3 is pleased to present Bandung-based artist Faisal Habibi's artist talk in which he will shares his thoughts on his first solo exhibition This is not an Apple... at ROH. In the past few years, Faisal Habibi (Jakarta, 1984; ITB: 2003-2008; faisalhabibi.net) has shown a strong sense of conceptual progression in terms of what he aims to communicate through his works. He has an ability to transform objects that people are familiar with, such as chairs, tables, brushes, hammers, and other things we commonly determine to be necessarily utilitarian, into sculptures that appear ‘alive’, or personified through manipulations of structural configurations. In the show at ROH, Faisal takes his explorations deeper with regards to associations with material culture. There is a sense of concision in his work in terms of stripping his works to their most basic of components. It is no longer the extraction or reduction of function in context of objects that Faisal is most interested in, but rather an exploration of raw forms, colors, and more importantly concepts that call for embodied interactions. He deals with the image of everyday objects by enticing an aesthetic experience of materiality, i.e. material forms and shapes, and materiality’s formal compositions. And for this formalist approach, the concept of beauty is significant.

The exhibition is curated by Roy Voragen and runs until January 24, 2016, at ROH Projects, Equity Tower 40th Floor Suite E, SCBD Lot 9, Jl. Jenderal Sudirman Kav 52-53, Jakarta.

The artist talk is organized by PLATFORM3 on Friday, January 8, 2016, 3 pm at Jalan Cigadung Raya Tengah 40, Bandung.

This is not an apple... by Faisal Habibi

This is not an apple...
a solo exhibition by Faisal Habibi
curated by Roy Voragen
for the catalog see here
at ROH Projects, Jakarta
opens 5pm Saturday 19 December 2015
until 24 January 2016

Equity Tower 40th Floor Suite E

SCBD Lot 9

Jalan Jend Sudirman Kav 52-53

Jakarta 12190 Indonesia

Bandung-based artist Faisal Habibi (Jakarta, 1984) shows a body of new work in his first solo exhibition This is not an apple… at ROH Projects. Since his graduation from ITB’s art school (2003-2008), Faisal Habibi’s main concern has been and still is material culture. However, instead of playfully dealing with the omnipresence and dominance of everyday objects and their functionality, as in his previous works, he deals with the image of everyday objects by enticing an aesthetic experience of materiality, i.e. material forms and shapes, and materiality’s formal compositions. For this, beauty is significant and the strategy he employs is one of dialog. The new works are spatially configurated in such a way as to offer visitors an embodied aesthetic experience of the formal, abstract compositions of each work and the body of works taken together within the gallery setting. The sculptural compositions are staged to unfold for all our senses.

Dangling Durians by Wiyoga Muhardanto

Dangling Durians

a solo project by Wiyoga Muhardanto

curated by Roy Voragen

presented by Equator Art Projects (http://www.eqproj.com/)

at Langgeng Art Foundation (http://www.langgengfoundation.org/)

Jalan Suryodiningratan 37, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

opening: Monday 3pm, November 2, 2015

until: December 2, 2015

Equator Art Projects presents, in collaboration with Langgeng Art Foundation, Dangling Durians, the latest solo project by Bandung-based artist Wiyoga Muhardanto (Jakarta, Indonesia, 1984), which is curated by Roy Voragen. Wiyoga, an ITB alumnus, is a prolific artist who has participated in biennales, art fairs, group shows and residency programs in Indonesia and abroad.

The artist shows his latest sculptures as a loosely constellated installation in the subterranean area of Langgeng Art Foundation, as part of Equator Art Projects, yet not in the actual gallery. For Dangling Durians, spaces have been switched: the locked-down gallery remains eerily empty for the duration of the show, instead the non-exhibition space in front of the basement gallery is utilized, not in criticism of the white cube but to tease urban questions to the foreground by means of a subterranean detour.

The contemporary is urban, and our built environment mediates, constructs, reproduces and, intersected at certain times, contradicts relationships of power. Our embodied relationship to objects always assumes a spatial setting and space is never neutral, always coded by (conflicting) normativities. The sculptures are the miscellaneous fragments, the discarded shreds, the hacked bits and pieces lifted out of our urban fabric.

With flair and wit, Wiyoga created seven new sculptures and each combines unlikely, even contradictory, elements, which is further amplified by grouping these sculptures together as an installation. Each feature, whether as a ready-made or remade by using resin, is one of our many urban fetishes, obsessions, fears, guilty pleasures, anxieties, joys, etc… 

For the curatorial essay see here.

Publication design by Endira FJ.

For photo documentation by Anang Saptoto see here.

UbuWeb Top Ten

My UbuWeb top #10 for September 2015.

365 days wasted on and wandered around Ubu

I spent 365 days on Ubu, see here for the full PDF.

unguarded guards & We Went Wild by Agugn Prabowo

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AGUGN PRABOWO

unguarded guards

Jogja Contemporary

opening: 7 pm Thursday 3 September 2015

the exhibition is until 23 September 2015

artist talk 4 pm Friday 4 September 2015

We Went Wild

Krack Studio

opening: 7 pm Saturday 5 September 2015

the exhibition is until 5 October 2015

papermaking workshop 3 pm Saturday 12 September 2015

Curated by Roy Voragen

Jogja Contemporary and Krack Studio collaborate to show new works by Agugn Prabowo (Bandung, Indonesia, 1985; agugn.tmblr.com). He graduated in 2010 from the Institute of Technology Bandung’s art school, where he studied at the printmaking studio. Today, he is well known for his art utilizing the printmaking technique linocut.

In his previous artworks, the artist explored the ambiguous notion of fear; the ambiguity of fear revolves around the issue that fear, while generally unwanted, can have unexpected yet ultimately worthy consequences. The new body of work expands on this concept and centers on the idea of how paradoxical protection actually is. The artist became a father two years ago and fatherhood shed new light on his life and life’s priorities. He wants to protect the infant – named Lino Apta – and keep him safe from harm, however, he knows, in anxious anticipation, that protection has its limits, hence the paradox…

In his solo exhibition unguarded guards at Jogja Contemporary, he shows a new series of works using linocut, photolithography and a combination of the two techniques, printed on hand-made paper. And in his solo exhibition We Went Wild at Krack Studio, he shows a hand-made artist book (in an edition of 10, also available as a digital offset print version, and each page framed as well), which is a collaboration with his child, using linocut and letterpress techniques.

Jogja Contemporary

http://jogjacontemporary.net/

Kompleks Jogja National Museum
Jl. Prof. Ki Amri Yahya no. 1
Gampingan
Yogyakarta 55167
+62 85109881919

+62 818260134

Krack Studio

http://www.krackstudio.com/

Jl.D.I. Pandjaitan

RT42/RW12

Mantrijeron

Minggiran

Yogyakarta 55141

+62081977184678                                 

unguarded guards - exhibition by Agugn Prabowo

unguarded guards is a solo exhibition by Agugn Prabowo at Jogja Contemporary, 3-23 September, 2015. For the catalog see here.

We Went Wild - artist book by Agugn Prabowo

We Went Wild is an artist book by Agugn Prabowo, presented at Krack Studio, Yogyakarta, 5 September 2015; see here for my text.

Catharsis by Syagini Ratna Wulan

looping loopholes - curatorial essay

Download the looping loopholes catalog here, looping loopholes is an exhibition by Duto Hardono, Muhammad Akbar and Rizki Resa Utama (aka OQ) at Yeo Workshop, Singapore, 24 April - 15 June, 2015.

looping loopholes

 

Duto Hardono
Muhammad Akbar

Rizki Resa Utama (aka OQ)

Yeo Workshop, Singapore, 24 April – 15 June 2015

Opening: Friday 24 April, 6-9pm

Talk: Saturday 25 April, 2-3.30pm

moderated by Michael Lee 

Curated by Roy Voragen

Language in all its shapes and forms is what gives us body. We whisper, we yell, we argue, we declare, we state this and that. We listen, we pretend to listen. We look, gaze, stare. We are seen-not-seen. We try to understand. We don’t understand, no, not at all. We paint in lush brush strokes. We scribble notes on the city’s walls, we write dissertations on the fall of the re/public. We read philosophy, poetry and prose. We take, post and like photos. We read out loud. We wink, we show the finger. We contradict ourselves. We fail. We fail again. We start over…

Occasionally, we speak in riddles and tongues, including slips. Our streets are cacophonic. Voices and counter-voices inhabit our cities.

Specters of a past are here to haunt us, through movies or monuments immortalizing our sins.

A city without people is no longer a city. A city would turn quickly into a ruin of asphalt and concrete without us – merely a collection of potholes.

A city means many things. It also means this: to fail, to fail again and then try again.

The exhibition deals with the repetitive, reflexive interaction between people, space/place and time. With flair and a good sense of humor, the artists raise the question whether we can embrace mistakes as a blessing in disguise. Breaks and tears, chance and change are inevitable, even though only slightly visible/audible at first, when an action is – or: has to be – repeated over and over again. Failure and a deviation from perceived standards are common treads to who we are/can be(-come) in particular places and times (including how we are perceived and received by others in public and private instances).

Poster design by Endira FJ.

booklet Dear Curator Curate Me/Yogyakarta

Download the Dear Curator Curate Me booklet here.
April/May 2014 Dear Curator Curate Me was organized in Yogyakarta in collaboration with Cemeti Art House and Ruang MES56. In Yogyakarta, three curators participated: Mira Asriningtyas, Pitra Hutomo and Grace Samboh. The booklet is designed by Arthel Tagnipez and handmade by ASNARUPA.