The ARISAN Project

For the purpose of this long-durational project, we define ARISAN as a cluster of activities intersecting and interacting with space and people in Taman Sari Valley, Bandung, Indonesia. The interactions and collaborations between artists, anthropologists and locals result in several episodes showing critical engagement with different issues relevant to the geography Jalan Taman Sari - Jalan Wastu Kencana - Jalan Cihampelas - Jalan Siliwangi.

Curated by Roy Voragen

Artists/Episodes:
Vincent Rumahloine
Syaiful Garibaldi (aka Tepu)
Eko Bambang Wisnu
Fajar Abadi
Endira F.J. (in collaboration with Ila)
ArumTresnaningtyas Dayuputri
AliansyahCaniago (aka Alin)
Maradita Sutantio
MuhammadZico Albaiquni    
and Henryette Louise
When all episodes are conducted, a group exhibition will be organized.

Anthropologists:
Gian Ergiansyah (aka Gabril)
M. Ekazaki Kurnia
and An Nisaa Yovani (aka Yona)
Anthropology assistants:
Rainaldi Trisnawiguna
Nadya Hari Putri
Susi Khusnul H
Ayudhia Dianggi Salsabilla
And these three will each head a group of anthropologists to collaborate with artists and/or to conduct independent research. When all episodes are conducted, a publication of writings will be prepared.

Documentation team:
Gilang Mustofa (photography)
Saiful Imam (video)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearisanproject2017/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thearisanproject/

3-in-1 by Wiyoga Muhardanto

3-in-1
solo exhibition by Wiyoga Muhardanto
at ROH Projects
curated by Roy Voragen
January 19 - February 9, 2017
artist talk on Thursday 2 February at 6 pm

Download the exhibition handout here.
Download the exhibition catalog here.

Indonesia - Almanac - Art Asia Pacific

Agugn: Printing Life in the Cosmos

For my essay for Agugn's solo exhibition at Vinyl on Vinyl, Manila, see here.

COMING SOON: futile erasure

Design by Gifran Muhammad Asri (aka Ogi - heydayforgood.com).
Production by ASNARUPA (aogindonesia.com).
Published by P and not P.

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/

Observatories of the Self

Observatories of the Self
Solo exhibition by Sara Nuytemans
At Tetem Kunstruimte, Enschede, the Netherlands
25 September - 6 November 2016
My essay can be read here (in Dutch).

Primal #m74207281 (page 1-97)

Ongoing concrete poem for which I copy by hand the as of 2016 largest known prime number. Each page is first posted on twitter. And every 300-or-so pages I will produce a limited edition xerox book.
SOd Press published a preview of page 1-97, see here.

THIRDSPACE: transit #3

In collaboration with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, ROH Projects presents THIRDSPACE: transit #3, an exhibition of four artists who took part in the former’s transit #3 residency programme in April – June 2015: Iabadiou Piko, Fika Ria Santika, Kara Andarini and Aliansyah Caniago.

For the e-catalog see here.

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.