Showing posts with label exhibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exhibition. Show all posts
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
looping loopholes
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.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
manifesto #superduperdecorativeart
manifesto #superduperdecorativeart
1. #superduperdecorativeart comes by many names
and in different disguises.
2. We will no longer allow for any more boring
art!
3. What cannot be said, should be joked about.
4.
5. #superduperdecorativeart is beyond beauty
yet aesthetic.
6. #superduperdecorativeart is artificial and
characterized by a high-degree of plasticity.
7.#superduperdecorativeart has no clear-cut
genesis, it's and continuous to be the bastard child of a great many artists,
with and without talent.
8. No one is an artist until one is an artist.
9. #superduperdecorativeart embraces mimetic
desire: that our desires are our own is a wonderful illusion.
10. #superduperdecorativeart has limited use
for authenticity. Authenticity can be regarded a useful artifice though.
11. #superduperdecorativeart plays with an
infinite feedback loop: reflexive self-plagiarism is called for in our digital
modernity.
12. #superduperdecorativeart quotes, samples,
pirates, forges, bootlegs, imitates, borrows, mimics, copies transposes,
plagiarizes, steals, appropriates and echoes from whatever sources we see fit:
nothing is holy.
13.
14.
15. #superduperdecorativeart's interventions are
unpredictable and unstable – long live contingency!
16. #superduperdecorativeart does not spell
everything out, use your imagination anyway you like to finish works on
display.
17. #superduperdecorativeart does not aim to
bridge contemporary art and everyday life, whatever the latter might mean, but
see statement 12.
18. #superduperdecorativeart does not make
statements, let alone statements on factual reality.
19. Pure logics does not apply to the
aesthetics of #superduperdecorativeart, which does not mean that
#superduperdecorativeart is beyond discourse, but, for a change, lets speak in
French tongues, paradoxes, lies, hyperboles and contradictions.
20. Sometimes a shoe is just that: a shoe.
Sometimes a shoe does not signify or symbolize a meaningful concept or idea
(but sometimes, maybe, it does).
21. #superduperdecorativeart does not care the
slightest for democracy, but does care about/for aesthetics as well as ethics
(the two sides of the same proverbial coin).
22. #superduperdecorativeart is
post-post-colonial art as well as post-identity politics.
23. #superduperdecorativeart offers pleasure:
emotional, spiritual as well as intellectual pleasure – but can also cause
discomfort in the faint hearted. It is, therefore, best enjoyed in small doses
in good company.
24.
25. Every day is a great day for
#superduperdecorativeart; no one has the last word on #superduperdecorativeart,
not even the artist (nor this author).
26. #superduperdecorativeart does not want to
win popularity contests, yet, #superduperdecorativeart might, one day, go viral
and become the neo-avant-garde, possibly the new 0.1 percent.
27. None of the above statements have any claim
to originality. Moreover, this manifesto is far from complete (like noise,
silence can be convenient).
28. The author cannot be hold responsible for
the interpretations of this work of fiction.
29. Copyright does not apply to the above
statements nor the manifesto as a whole.
30. None of the above statements nor the
manifesto as a whole are manifestations of art.
31.
Needless to say, the artist does not agree with any of the above statements nor
with the manifesto as a whole.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Unoriginal Sin II - Art in the Expired Field - a solo exhibition by Asmudjo J. Irianto at LAF
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, February 24, 2014
the weight of weightlessness - exhibition at Dia.Lo.Gue. Art Space
the weight of weightlessness
rhymes and rhythms of paper
an exhibition by Prilla
Tania, Irfan Hendrian and Ivana Stojakovic
curated by Roy Voragen
Dia.Lo.Gue. Art Space
Jalan Kemang Raya Selatan 99A, Jakarta
Tel: 021-719 9670
Opening: March 4, 2014
Opening officiated by Dr. Tisna Sanjaya
And a contemporary dance performance by Yola Yulfianti
Until: March 31, 214
the weight of
weightlessness: rhymes and rhythms of paper at Dia.Lo.Gue. Art Space is a contemporary art
exhibition by three Bandung-based artists: Prilla Tania
(Bandung, Indonesia 1979; see her blog: http://prillatania.wordpress.com/ and a review of a previous solo exhibition: http://bit.ly/17zyUCM),
Irfan Hendrian (Ohio, US, 1987; see his website: http://www.regmart.net, for his work process:
http://vimeo.com/irfanh and see for an
essay on his work: http://bit.ly/VLyQMk)
and Ivana Stojakovic (Belgrade, Serbia, 1976; see her website http://ivanastojakovic.webs.com and
a video on her work process: http://www.youtube.com/user/ivanastojakovic).
Prilla Tania, Irfan Hendrian and Ivana Stojakovic are three visual artists from
various backgrounds – but they share something, a love, a love for paper.
The versatility of paper is a common
thread throughout the artistic practices of these three artists. For the three
artists, paper is a medium and material at the very same time – with keen consideration, these three
artists give paper a different kind of life, a metaphorical life full of rhyme
and rhythm.
The three artists in this exhibition
work with and on paper, so that it remains an important element in the works
they create. In short, this exhibition illuminates the staggering versatility
of paper and, as such, this exhibition is an ode to paper.
In their works, paper is heavy and
light, compositions and rhythms are crafted with, in and on paper, paper is
used in unusual ways, pushed to its limits – cut, pressed, shredded and
re-assembled, printed on over and over again until breaking point – and in this
laborious process new forms are created, paper as body, and these forms are
connected to the spatiality of Dia.Lo.Gue. Art Space.
The three artists in this exhibition go
against the grain by persistently and quietly going their own way – along
meandering paths they show us paper in new lights. They mold paper into
compositions that are weighty or light and always poetic – or in other words: the
weight of weightlessness: rhymes and rhythms of paper.
Roy
Voragen (Bandung-based writer and curator)
Monday, July 29, 2013
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.)
Friday, July 26, 2013
The threads of an ongoing love affair with your art
Occasionally – when fortunate, with
effortless effort – we experience a poetic encounter with a work of art and
this experience, in turn, lingers in our memory for times to come and
unexpectedly can reflexively pop-up again into our thoughts while doing
something completely mundane like sipping hot coffee in the morning. The
experience of art and the memory of it can morph us – become part of our body,
part of who we are or who we want to become. We are all art thieves. Our memory
takes care of that; we (unwillingly) take home the unexpected, exquisiteness as
well as the uncanny – a rough brush stroke here, a fine pen line there. For
this, art needs to travel. For this, we need to travel – and leave our comfort
zone behind, go back & forth to exhibition spaces and meet time after time
works of art.
(From my
preface for the catalog of Besti Rahulasmoro and S.E. Dewantoro’s exhibition at
Bentara Budaya, Yogyakarta, curated by Kerensa Johnston and produced by DarahRouge.)
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Navigating the sublime and the profane
“Navigating the sublime and the profane,” see
here: http://bit.ly/1aeobRO
and:
“The Sublime, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the
transcendental in dialog,” see here: http://bit.ly/14XqzIM
The first of the above two mentioned essays is
a short, personal essay; the second, on the other hand, is a longer and more
academic essay. The reader can decide for her- or himself in which order to
read these two essays.
Above artwork is by Bandung-based artist Maradita
Sutantio, http://maradiata.wordpress.com/
Friday, May 17, 2013
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)
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
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:
Friday, May 10, 2013
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.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Qualia by Jef Carnay
Qualia by Jef
Carnay
Roma Arts
presents Qualia by Jef Carnay at Asbestos Art Space
Jef Carnay is a Manila-based visual and
performance artist. Qualia is the result of his residency at Roma Arts,
Bandung, November 2012. Carnay’s presentation includes a new installation and
performance at Asbestos Art Space. And Qualia is based on the artist’s everyday
experiences in Bandung during his residency.
Opening
& Performance 24 November 7pm
Until
27 November 7pm
Asbestos
Art Space
Jalan
RAA Martanegara 86 Bandung
Jef Carnay is a Manila-based 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.
Roy
Voragen
Jef
Carnay’s Roma Arts residency is supported by Valentine Willie Fine Art
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Linda Sim Solay's solo exhibition Continuum of Consciousness at IFI-Bandung has been closed. The exhibition brochure can be downloaded here. The next artist-in-resident at Roma Arts will be Manila-based performance artist Jef Carnay, who will stay in Bandung in November.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
A double act voyage of shadows, luminosity and skilful play
Open publication - Free publishing - More bandung
A double act voyage of shadows,
A double act voyage of shadows,
luminosity and skilful play
A review by Roy Voragen
From the
beginning until the end
A duet exhibition by Haryadi Suadi and Radi Arwinda
Selasar Sunaryo Art Space
Jalan Bukit Pakar Timur 100, Bandung
Curated by Agung Hujatnikajennong
Catalog can be downloaded
here.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Roma Arts presents in collaboration with Institut Français Indonesia-Bandung Continuum of Consciousness by Linda Sim Solay
Continuum of Consciousness
Linda Sim Solay
A Roma Arts production in collaboration with
IFI-Bandung
Curated by Roy Voragen
Supported by Oma Anna
Opening 12 October 7pm officiated by Tisna Sanjaya
Artist talk 13 October 4pm
The exhibition runs until 25 October
Institut Français Indonesia-Bandung
http://www.institutfrancais-indonesia.com/bandung
Jl. Purnawarman no. 32, Bandung
Singapore-based, 30-year old photography and
installation artist Linda Sim Solay did a one-month residency at Roma Arts,
Bandung, in June, and she returns to present her work at Institut Français
Indonesia-Bandung. I first met her at a seminar Roma Arts organized at Selasar
Sunaryo Art Space, December 2011. During her residency, the then work-in-progress
installation had the working title Samtana
(a Sanskrit term for stream of consciousness). While in Bandung last June, she
worked with a focus and dedication rarely seen. She tested different ways to
apply glue to glasses she brought along. She made trips to Pasar Baru to find the right scent for her installation. We visited
several art spaces across Bandung to find a suitable space to present her work
and the black box auditorium at IFI in Bandung is the perfect match. We had
meandering, long talks about ideas dear to her she wants to express through her
art. And in collaboration with Institut Français Indonesia-Bandung, Roma Arts proudly
presents Continuum of Conscious,
Linda Sim Solay’s art installation. Her art installation consists of
elaborately glued together crystal glasses, which have been in her family for
generations, forming a delicate column through which light will flow from the
base to the top and back (light sources and mirrors are at the top and base).
The installation also involves scent and sound elements; for the sound she was
assisted by sound artist Bani Haykal, whom I met at his solo exhibition at the
Substation, Singapore, earlier this year. Linda Sim Solay attempts to create an
open space with little sensory distraction, which – hopefully – makes our
senses more focused. The space can be perceived as a continuum: there are no
starting- or endpoints; light, scent and sound will continuously flow
throughout the space. And a continuum transcends what can be intellectually
analyzed; art, then, can go where our intellect has to halt. Our senses, the
sensual, beauty too, are imminent to appreciating life in general and art in
particular.
Artist statement – Linda Sim Solay – Continuum of
Consciousness
Continuum of Consciousness references the stream of
mind or consciousness, and hereby the continuity of individual and collective
energy over space and time. It may appear as incomprehensible to us that
existence with all information contained herein may indeed be infinite, even
when considering that energy does indeed remain constant. With the stream of
consciousness being said to carry information and awareness of all experience
independent of time, it can be seen as an indefinite pool of historical,
personal and sociological sensations and their resulting knowledge and
awareness. Inspired by this concept as found in various spiritual teachings,
particularly in schools of Hinduism and Buddhism, the installation explores the
experience of sentient awareness of continuous reality beyond faith or system
of belief. It aims to embody an intimate experience of self beyond its
seemingly ephemeral nature, embedding notions of universality, awareness and
ultimate progress and continuous growth. The created space can be perceived as
a continuum, allowing for both focus and contemplation of its personal
experience, without sensory starting- or endpoints. Notably, the very nature of
a continuum lies beyond intellectual analysis.
2012
~ 400x10x10cm
Glass, LED lights, sound, scented seeds
Sound: Bani Haykal
~ 400x10x10cm
Glass, LED lights, sound, scented seeds
Sound: Bani Haykal
Biography Linda Sim Solay
Linda Sim is a 30-year-old Swedish-Austrian artist,
currently living in Singapore. Her practice in fine art photography and
installation focuses on psychological and philosophical evolutionary thematics
and contemporary science. Her work is orientated around shaping
audience-internal atmosphere, spiritual proximation and potential for perceptive
immersion. After earning her BA in Media Arts from RMIT University Melbourne in
2005 majoring in Fine Art Photography under Dr. Les Walkling, she has exhibited
extensively both in Europe and Australia in over 30 solo, collaborative and
group exhibitions, and has undergone artist residencies and extensive travels
to over 30 countries. Currently studying for her MA at Lasalle College of
the Arts, Singapore, Linda's research on the use of scent in contemporary art
has earned her the Golden Key Asia-Pacific Postgraduate Award as well as the
Lasalle Scholarship. Recently she furthermore received the GK
Visual&Performing Arts Achievement Award for her previous installation
"Timensions" which thematically explores current models in Quantum
Physics and String Theory; developed in collaboration with the Centre for
Quantum Technologies at the University of Singapore.
About Roma Arts
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.
For the e-leaflet see here.
For the e-leaflet see here.
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