International Istanbul Biennial 16 September – 30 October 2005 For a three-week project in Istanbul Biennale 2005, ruangrupa conducted a research on Istanbul ‘Local Hero’. This project was started when ruangrupa was also researching on t-shirt culture in Jakarta. When we found t-shirt could function as a media for propaganda, especially through statements representing a…
OK. VIDEO – SUB/VERSION Jakarta International Video Festival 2005 July 18 – 31, 2005 Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta This second OK.Video Festival was successfully held by ruangrupa in July 2005 at the National Gallery of Indonesia-Jakarta. The programs that were successfully held were: exhibitions, video art projects in 3 cities, artist talks, and seminars held…
Theme: Community Video Speaker: Etnoreflika (Yogyakarta) This time, ruangrupa invited the Etnoreflika group (Yogyakarta) to present several video documentary projects and video workshops that they had worked on. Etnoreflika (Yogyakarta), is an organization engaged in making video documentaries and video workshops with the motto “camera for the people”. Many do video documentary workshops for street…
Theme: Community Video Speaker: Ari (Urban Poor Consortium, Jakarta) In the Some Thirteen discussion program this time, ruangrupa invited the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC) organization to present their video works that they have made so far.
On this Wednesday Video Club, ruangrupa invited a video collection called VIDEO BATTLE. In this screening, ruangrupa played 6 rounds from the Video Battle collection.
Date: 14 March – 30 April 2005 In this t-shirt project, ruangrupa conducts research and documentation on the culture of using t-shirts and how it has developed into a medium for communication. T-shirts have become one of the media that are now used to convey certain messages to the public, because of their mobile…
Date: 01 – 08 February 2005 Facilitator: ruangrupa This “one minute movie” workshop program was carried out for 2 weeks at Ruangrupa. This “one minute movie” program tries to explore this audio-visual language visually, duration, and montage. This project tries to see how the language of film/video is used effectively. “One minute movie” sees the…