The Serpent’s Table is a theatrical and culinary experience like no other. Combining performance, food and installation, five storytellers reveal the secrets of dishes that are significant in their lives and share compelling stories of family, culture, loss, conflict and celebration. Salty, sweet, sour and bitter tales from the heart are infused into each dish, […]
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Vast Deafening Silence
Vast Deafening Silence is a live art/ duration performance. The work is an allusion to the things that people choose to ignore, to forget, to avoid to talk about for various reasons. The work is my further exploration of the benchmark of my work, which is the integration between media art and performance.
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Shred (Serpih)
This reel-dance work is about conscience (in Indonesian, it is called “nurani” or “kata-hati”). I started the work with this premise: what is the basis of human’s morality? Can people be good without being told to be good by any instruction book? There will be a lot of answers to ponder, from virtues and rationale […]
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Ruwatan (Liberation)
Ruwatan (The Liberation) – a photo novella Lewat karya ini, saya melakukan iterpretsi artistik dari tradisi Ruwat.
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The Drowned Man
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 […]
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I Only Want Two of Every Kind
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 […]
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Deluge
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 […]
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The Colour of Sinner, The Colour of Believer
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.
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Works for EnTrance
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 […]
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