In OK. Video, ruangrupa co-operate with National Gallery held the first international video art festival in Indonesia. This festival screens the works of video arts from Indonesia artists and other country, that shown the differences of ideas achievements, techniques, and video mediums, especially their relation to the cultural contemporary problems. In the latest development, video art is a medium that often used by the contemporary artist in discussing socioculture problems like identity, politics, private space-public space and mass culture.
The aim of this festival is to create a forum that mediated interaction between artist and video art works from various cities and countries through the meeting, discussion, collaboration work, workshop and work presentation. Moreover, this festival is hoped could enlarge the scoupe of audiences to the medium of video as medium expression and enriched the view and public perspectives in seeing spectacle culture that has been build in Indonesia, one of them is by television.
- The program in this festival:
Exhibition
Total participant: 56 artists from 19 countries. This exhibition devided to four themes, there are; 1) Identity, 2) Politic, 3) Public Space and Private Space, 4) Mass Culture - Workshop
– Video Workshop “Urban Space in Jakarta”
In this workshop, ruangrupa collaborated with Oliver Zwink (Germany) as workshop conductor and Gustaff H Iskandar (Bandung Center for New Media Arts/Bandung) as facilitator. The theme is about urban space in Jakarta. Total participants: 15 persons who consist of visual artists, graphic designers, video artists, photographers and filmmakers.
– Workshop on Video Art
Co-operate with a video artist group from Japan, Video Art Center Tokyo. This workshop is more focused to the discussion and understanding about video as an art medium, and how to experiment with video medium. Total participants: 16 persons who consist of fine arts, film and visual communication students. - Presentation / Artist’ Talk
In this artist’ talk program the artist that included their works in the festival, they are; Krisna Murti (Indonesia), Katsuyuki Hatori (Japan), Greg Streak (South Africa), Stani Michel (Belgia), Video Art Center Tokyo (Japan) - Seminar
Invite an experience curator on video art exhibition and festival, Stephanie Moisdon Tremble (French). - Special Presentation
Invite three artists’ initiative; PULSE (South Africa), VIDEOTAGE (Hongkong), VIDEO ART CENTER TOKYO (Japan) that had focused their works in video medium to make special presentation in screening format of their works in a special space in an exhibition space. The works has theme about urban. - Music Video Screening
Music Video Screening, which showed a new development of Indonesian young video artist works.