I was inspird by a short story written by Gabriel García Márquez “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, that I read in the university back in the ’80s. This work is inspired by the story. One Tuesday morning, children in a small fishing village of “about twenty-odd wooden houses” find a body on the […]
Read More →I Only Want Two of Every Kind
on July 23, 2014in Works
Borrowing the title and the story from the biblical big flood myth, I Only Want Two of Every Kind is a social commentary work in respond to the immigration quota dilemma. As a social commentary, the work strives to depart far away as being such a critique work toward the policy per se. This is […]
Read More →Deluge
on July 23, 2014in Works
A 3 days workshop and one night showing of interdisciplinary art based on the premise of things that happen in a sudden, abrupt, and unexpected. How we react from that event? Happy, sad, and keep moving on? The work is supported by INSIST and Asialink through its art residency program. Producer, Poetry curator, interpreter and […]
Read More →The Colour of Sinner, The Colour of Believer
on July 23, 2014in Works
Warna Dosa, Warna Doa. This album contains some of the photos of my visual essay about faith.This project is part of my art residency activities in Indonesia. Featuring Lutfie Mohammad and shot at Juwana, Pati – Indonesia.
Read More →Works for EnTrance
on July 23, 2014in Works
En Trance is a contemporary mashups art work of dance, media art, theatre, text, sounds and installation. The general idea about En Trance is duality world. Read more about En Trance here. Bambang Nurcahyadi’s projected images and Ian Kitney’s sound design seamlessly combine with Umiumare’s performance into a singular unity of expression. It makes En […]
Read More →Miss Taken
on July 23, 2014in Works
Miss Taken idea revolves around the peripheral of my favorite subjects in art making: identity, women, and human struggling. It exposes the idea of non-specific gender characters in motion, dealing with common question of identity – range from choices, consequences, dreams and reality and combined into one single emotional narrative. Miss Taken methodology provokes the […]
Read More →Sakasama
on July 23, 2014in Works
This work was shown at OzAsia Festival, Adelaide on 22 September – 28 October 2007 and a snippet was broadcast on Sunday Arts for ABC Television. Here are the notes on this work from the exhibition program – Please note, The “I” within the blurb refer to Yumi Umiumare. The original impulse for this piece […]
Read More →3A
on July 23, 2014in Works
Formerly entitled “Amba, Ambika, and Ambalika”, 3A is media-art piece exploring story taken from fragments of the Mahabharata. Amba, Ambika and Ambalika are princesses whose fate revolves tragically around the celibacy vow of a heroic and wishful man, Bhisma. All three women are victims of the prevailing powers of their time. Bhisma wins an archery […]
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