New space and a short film workshop

  Date: October 2001 We move to a bigger place and we could set up more space for work and a presentation space. A film workshop supported by Goethe Institut Jakarta, by Nina Fischer and Maroan El Sani [Germany] on psycho geography and ‘derive’. 12 student and young artists was participating in the workshop for…

Jakarta Habitus Publik – A Public Art Project

  JakArt@2001 – International Arts, Cultural & Educational Festival June 2001 organize by ruangrupa, which is part of the first ‘Jakarta Art Festival 2001’. The main subject for this project is the art activities based on the act of exchange, intervention, negotiation, and negation in the public space. The project divided by four; site specific,…

Artist in Residence – Michael Blum

  Artist: Michael Blum [Germany/France] Time: August 2001 Books, video and film. He made a research about his sneakers. Most sneakers worn in the Western world have been manufactured either in China, Vietnam or Indonesia. He travels his sneakers back and try to find out about where they come from, who made them etc. His…

The Swarm Project

  Artists: Tero Nauha [Finland] Tina M Ward [U.S.A.] Ade Darmawan [Indonesia] Date: July 2001 Swarm – the animal society as a possible metaphor for human social structure. Heraldic animals have been the symbols for identification of nations and tribes for as long as there has been culture. These mammals symbolize strong patriarchal structures. The…

Silent Forces Project: A Multimedia Video Art Presentation

  Artists: Anne Mie van Kerckhoven [Belgium], Sebastian Diaz Morales [Argentina], Aditya Satria [Jakarta], Adrianto Sinaga [Jakarta] Date: June 2001 Video art and multimedia project, with 4 participating artists. The presentation of this collaboration took place in Japan Foundation Jakarta. The workshop confronts different ideas on video art and multi media, and how the artists…

Artist in Residence and Exhibition – Boy Band Only

  Artists: Anggun Priambodho [Jakarta] – interior design, objects, and prints Mateus Bondan [Jakarta] – graphic design Date: April 2001 During the residencies they made a book dealing with the issue of ‘boy band’, a global phenomena in the pop music industry. Furthermore is about consumerism culture and how the media together with the industry…

Karbon – 2nd Edition

  We publish the second journal ‘karbon’. The main subject in this edition is the workshop and research on urban printing phenomenon in Jakarta. A project of urban printing was done in 2000 with participating artists: Hauritsa (Jakarta, Indonesia), Irwan Ahmett (Jakarta, Indonesia), David Tarigan (Bandung, Indonesia), Syagini Ratnawulan (Bandung, Indonesia) Alexander Sudheim-RAIN partners (Durban,…

Artist in Residence and Exhibition – Porno

Artists: Jimmy Multhazam [Jakarta] Henry Irawan [Jakarta] – painting, printmaking, video and computer animation. Date: March 2001 They are recently graduated from Jakarta Art Institute [IKJ], their works mainly about popular sub-culture where they are part of it such as; underground music, and gravity. During the residencies they are dealing with the issue of ‘pornography’.