Jef Carnay's Roma Arts artist-in-residency has come to an end and he returned to Manila. For his residency, we collaborated with Asbestos Art Space (performance & installation) and Galeri Gerilya (presentation and performances) in Bandung.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Remember
Jef Carnay's Roma Arts artist-in-residency has come to an end and he returned to Manila. For his residency, we collaborated with Asbestos Art Space (performance & installation) and Galeri Gerilya (presentation and performances) in Bandung.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
QUALIA
Qualia
by Jef Carnay
curated
by Roy Voragen
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
About Jef
Carnay
Jef Carnay is a Manila-based visual and performance
artist who exhibits his works in local and international art galleries,
museums and alternative spaces; he performed at both local and international
art events; he also curated live art performances. He’s fascinated with people’s
behavior in situations, and he plays around the ideas of ‘what if’s:
possibilities of alternative situations and narratives. He’s in constant
collaboration with the many inside ‘himself’. He also explores humor, for it’s
easier to swallow a bitter pill of reality when it’s coated with a little loony
sugar. He’s now exploring the concept of what’s seen against what’s being
experienced: what actually can be seen doesn’t tell the whole story, there is
always more of what is physically present, some intangible concealed notions
alongside the evident. And Qualia is
based on the artist’s everyday experiences in Bandung during his residency at
Roma Arts, Bandung, November 2012. Carnay’s presentation includes a new
installation and performance at Asbestos Art Space, 24-27 November 2012.
Tentang Jef
Carnay
Jef Carnay adalah
seorang seniman rupa (visual) dan seni pertunjukan berbasis di Manila, yang
telah memamerkan karya seninya di galeri lokal/internasional, museum dan ruang-ruang
alternatif. Selain itu dia juga kerap melakukan kurasi pada beberapa seni pertunjukan
secara langsung. Carnay selalu tertarik akan perilaku individu maupun kelompok
orang dalam berbagai situasi, dan bermain dalam ranah ide konsep ‘bagaimana
bila’: kemungkinan yang menghadirkan situasi dan narasi alternatif. Secara
terus menerus, dia selalu berkolaborasi dengan berbagai figur yang berbeda di
dalam ‘dirinya’. Dia juga mengeksplorasi humor, yang memudahkan dia untuk
menelan pil pahit realitas kehidupan ketika hanya dibalut oleh secuil gula
kegilaan. Pada saat ini dia melakukan eksplorasi konsep apa yang dilihat
terhadap apa yang dirasakan: apa yang sebenarnya bisa dilihat belum tentu
menunjukkan keseluruhan cerita, selalu ada sesuatu yang lebih dari sekedar
kehadiran fisik dan beberapa hal abstrak tersembunyi dalam wujud gagasan bersama
bukti kehadirannya. Pameran bertajuk Qualia didasarkan pada pengalaman
keseharian sang seniman di kota Bandung selama program residensinya di Roma
Arts, Bandung, November 2012. Presentasi Carnay pada kesempatan ini
menghadirkan karya instalasi baru dan seni pertunjukan di Asbestos Art Space,
24-27 November 2012.
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.
Roy Voragen
Tentang
Roma Arts
Roma Arts, didirikan pada tahun 2011, mempromosikan
cara memproduksi, presentasi, mengalami, dan menuliskan pelbagai bentuk seni.
Roma Arts memberikan perhatian khusus pada praktek pengkaryaan, bentuk-bentuk
presentasi karya, penghayatan seni dan wacana seni. Pada 2012, Roma Arts
menginisiasi program residensi untuk memelihara hubungan kreatif secara
personal.
Roy Voragen
Jef
Carnay’s Roma Arts residency is supported by Valentine Willie Fine Art
November 16 at Galeri Gerilya Jef Carnay presented On Pins and Needles, and we invited performance artists to respond to the presented videos. Jef responded to a video by the late Marcus Vinicius. Jef's performance was a beautiful homage as well as a farewell.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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
Selection of videos from the On Pins and Needles Project:
Anida Yoeu Ali – 1700% Project
Opaline Santos
Jef Carnay – Note to self: It can get cold. Keep yourself warm.
Kosal Khiev – Why I Write
Marcus Vinicius – The artist is warrior
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
Drawing workshop Jef Carnay at Oma Anna
Yesterday Roma Arts artist-in-resident Jef Carnay gave a drawing workshop at Oma Anna to the neighborhood kids. He asked them to draw him as they see him, 12-year old Nadhilah gave him a slimmer appearance...The kids had so much fun that they asked Jef to come back next week!
Sunday, November 11, 2012
On Pins and Needles by Jef Carnay
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.
Saturday 16 November 5pm
With impromptu live performances!
Galeri Gerilya
Jalan Raden Patah 12 Bandung
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
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Bandung Network 5
Manila-based artist Jef Carnay (http://langoyisdalangoy.wordpress.com) comes to Bandung for his residency at Roma Arts. He will show work he creates in Bandung at Asbestos and he will also give a presentation at Galeri Gerilya.
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.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Logical Aesthetics - exhibition catalog Irfan Hendrian
Open publication - Free publishing - More catalog
Irfan Hendrian will have his solo exhibition at Via Via, Yogya,
4-30 October. And I wrote an essay for his catalog.
Irfan Hendrian will have his solo exhibition at Via Via, Yogya,
4-30 October. And I wrote an essay for his catalog.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Logical Aesthetics - Irfan Hendrian
Irfan Hendrian will have his solo exhibition at Via Via in Yogya, 4-30 October.
My essay for his catalog can be downloaded here.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Dadang Christanto: Trauma and Amnesia
Open publication - Free publishing - More exhibition
My review essay of Dadang Christanto's solo exhibition at
Yuz Museum, Jakarta, for Tempo Magazine (English edition).
The exhibition runs until 24 September.
My review essay of Dadang Christanto's solo exhibition at
Yuz Museum, Jakarta, for Tempo Magazine (English edition).
The exhibition runs until 24 September.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
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?
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
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
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’:
NU Substance at Common Room
NU Substance 2012: contested space
Festival for Open Culture, Technology & Urban Ecology
Organized by Common Room Networks Foundation
Bandung, 15-30 September 2012
For more information see here.
Review of Arte Polis 4 conference
Open publication - Free publishing - More architecture
My review essay of Arte Polis 4 conference at ITB in Bandung for the IIAS Newsletter (download PDF here).
My review essay of Arte Polis 4 conference at ITB in Bandung for the IIAS Newsletter (download PDF here).
Friday, August 31, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Roma Arts
Mei Suling, designer at Oma Anna,
created a Roma Arts logo.
Roma Arts, founded in 2011 by Bandung-based art
writer Roy Voragen, promotes passionate, ambitious and focused ways of
producing, presenting, experiencing, and writing about the diverse forms of the
contemporary arts in Indonesia. Roma Arts gives keen attention to art
practices, forms of presentation, experiencing the arts, and discourses on art.
Roma Arts organizes workshops, artist talks, seminars and roundtable
discussions in collaboration with, thus far, Oma Anna, Selasar Sunaryo Art
Space and Common Room Networks Foundation. In 2012, Roma Arts started a
residency program to foster creative person-to-person contacts. Roma Arts had
so far guests from Japan, Singapore and the Philippines (Roma Arts collaborates
with Manila-based artist initiative space 98B). Artist-in-residents have the
option to do a site-specific project at Roma Arts or make an exhibition
elsewhere, for which Roma Arts collaborates with existing art spaces (in 2012
Roma Arts organizes an exhibition at the French cultural institute IFI in
Bandung and in 2013 at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, options for an art space will
depend on the needs of a particular artist). Furthermore, Roma Arts mentors
young and upcoming artists to help them create and exhibit a project.
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