ASS AS AN ASS
A label produces an illusion and strongly resonates in our behavior towards another human being. Why don't we see a person as a person?
The prints show butts of people who are often confronted with "labels" (local, bule/foreigner, boy, girl, etc.).
The questions are meant to confront the audience, whether to know the answer is important or not. I provided the answer inside and let the audience decide wether they tear up the artwork or let the ass be an ass.
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Series of manual butt print on tracing paper bag, and a squeezed paper.
78 x 65 cm - 2019
WHEN IT (ALMOST) HITS YOU
Human interaction always reflects exchanges of energy. How much do we give /
how much do we hold? How do we cope with emotions of getting too much /
not enough? We search for a fusion of giving and taking by swinging the tire and realize
how very small, subtle and difficult to reach the spectrum of a "perfect" energy exchange
actually is.
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45 Minutes Performance & Installation
Hanged tire, bell, black paint, and candle
Collaboration work with Annu Cutter
SIDE BY SIDE
Close to where I grew up, there is a lakeside area used by poor families as a home. This area is soon going to be developed into a new apartment complex: Homes of hundreds of people are going to be substituted by hundreds of upper class apartments. Soon, these people have to move out to find a new place they could call home. But where to?
As long as centralization remains an unsolved issue, people will migrate to the centers, competing with each other to catch and ride the waves of what capitalism promotes as a better future.
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Two performers are moving around this neighborhood, We are using the tire to run over each other's bodies, our heads are connected with a black fabric. This parts reflects surviving strategies in our current system.
The performance ends with a competition; both pulling each other, trying to make the other dropping on the tire.
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45 minute public performance - 2020
PERJAMUAN SUNGAI - THE RIVER SUPPER
How do we get to live along the river? Flood in Jakarta has been an issue since years 400 AC. It encompasses the time of colonialism and haven't been solved until now. The artist try to present and served the water of the Jakarta river to the audience and enact the ritual of salutation as a satyr aiming to deconstruct the issue of centralization and decolonization. The sound of spoon hitting the glass repeatedly represent the sound of emergency from "kentongan".
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30 Minutes Performance - 2022
River Water, Glasses, Spoon, Gallon,
Water Dispenser
