A few weeks before the show, I have been told by my friend, a fellow Indonesian year three sculpture student that she is going to translate the talk hosting three Indonesian artist. It is going to be held in Nge An Kongsi Gallery alongside with their works being exhibited, located in my campus.I was like, Holy mama you are so cool, Lija!
The day rolls in a blink of an eye and we came to that day. It has been my weird symptom to have anxiety feeling before talk started, even though I only present as an audience. I am not a very nationalist person though I'd thought human is human regardless the nation but I can't lie that having people from my hometown doing great job and being invited with honor gives me some pride.
the students were somehow very crowded at that time and as I know a few of them were obliged to come by their lecturer. The talk started and honestly it went a bit slow in the first 15 minutes because they talk slowly especially that being bilingual, you end up hearing two information repeated which is fun at some point yes. I could not help but laugh at some part watching my friend attempting her best to translate some overtly poetic words that even Indonesian can't figure out. Some of the students were Malay Singaporean and even though our language has a lot of differences, they get the talk and the joke. As the time went by the talk got more and more interesting.
It was said that three of them went through study in ISI Jogja (Jogja Institute of the Arts). They explained what's interesting being an art student there, the self identity crisis they went through and how they seek the answer from the works they were creating.
They said that Indonesian government are not as supportive as here in Singapore which we instantly agree on, yet there is a plus and minus point to that. Plus point is that the artist in Indonesia can have freedom as much as they want as long as it does not insult certain religion or cultural practice (yes religion is one sacred thing in public there). Indonesia is a huge land and very multicultural, the nudity approved in one place is being against hard a few yard away across the city border.
What I am getting from the show is that I think being an artist is one painful thing if you don't believe in what you're doing. It certainly applies to everything but being artist you risk your time to do something that doesn't give you steady income, and people (often) don't understand. You build or make things which can take up to years, handmade or factory made. There has to be strong reason that would push your will up to that level of hardwork which is really amazing for me.
on the gallery I previously gallery-sitted, the artist was said to had started the project since seven years ago and factored it in China sending them worldwide all the way.
how does that inspire your art practice?
for me I don't think I have that much of patience but who knows what will happen in future for now I just keep trying to stimulate myself to create and think aka distract my overreacting thoughts so at least its existence will make any good if muting it is one impossible thing . XP
We are not allowed to take picture of the artworks so I'll snap some from the catalogue given.
The day rolls in a blink of an eye and we came to that day. It has been my weird symptom to have anxiety feeling before talk started, even though I only present as an audience. I am not a very nationalist person though I'd thought human is human regardless the nation but I can't lie that having people from my hometown doing great job and being invited with honor gives me some pride.
the students were somehow very crowded at that time and as I know a few of them were obliged to come by their lecturer. The talk started and honestly it went a bit slow in the first 15 minutes because they talk slowly especially that being bilingual, you end up hearing two information repeated which is fun at some point yes. I could not help but laugh at some part watching my friend attempting her best to translate some overtly poetic words that even Indonesian can't figure out. Some of the students were Malay Singaporean and even though our language has a lot of differences, they get the talk and the joke. As the time went by the talk got more and more interesting.
It was said that three of them went through study in ISI Jogja (Jogja Institute of the Arts). They explained what's interesting being an art student there, the self identity crisis they went through and how they seek the answer from the works they were creating.
They said that Indonesian government are not as supportive as here in Singapore which we instantly agree on, yet there is a plus and minus point to that. Plus point is that the artist in Indonesia can have freedom as much as they want as long as it does not insult certain religion or cultural practice (yes religion is one sacred thing in public there). Indonesia is a huge land and very multicultural, the nudity approved in one place is being against hard a few yard away across the city border.
What I am getting from the show is that I think being an artist is one painful thing if you don't believe in what you're doing. It certainly applies to everything but being artist you risk your time to do something that doesn't give you steady income, and people (often) don't understand. You build or make things which can take up to years, handmade or factory made. There has to be strong reason that would push your will up to that level of hardwork which is really amazing for me.
on the gallery I previously gallery-sitted, the artist was said to had started the project since seven years ago and factored it in China sending them worldwide all the way.
how does that inspire your art practice?
for me I don't think I have that much of patience but who knows what will happen in future for now I just keep trying to stimulate myself to create and think aka distract my overreacting thoughts so at least its existence will make any good if muting it is one impossible thing . XP
We are not allowed to take picture of the artworks so I'll snap some from the catalogue given.
