Regency/City: Central Jakarta

Art On Senen Border

Although later those productions still had to enter the exclusivity to be recognized as ‘art’, because there had to be a person called ‘artist’ who would frame it with his or her subjective sensitivity, still, did they realize that they got it from society?

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No Match Today

No Match Today is a video work produced by akumassa in the akumassa Ad hoc Project in 2013. This project was initiated in the framework of participating the 15th Jakarta Biennale 2013: SIASAT.

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Senen at Noon

Senen at Noon is a video work produced by akumassa in the akumassa Ad hoc Project in 2013. This project was initiated in the framework of participating the 15th Jakarta Biennale 2013: SIASAT.

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Imaginati

Imaginati (2013) is a video work priduced by akumassa in akumassa Ad hoc Project. The project was organized in the framework of participating the 15th Jakarta Biennale 2013: SIASAT.

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The Women of Pondok Kaleng

Photography project about women in Pondok Kaleng initiated by Auviar depicted another definition of the women’s role in society in Indonesia. Presumably, there was a notion of the domestic realm that no longer seen as the subordination of women because of a dense residential neighborhood just bring...

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The Objectivity of Instinctive Frame

Photography Exhibition by Children from Paseban was a narration or fragment of event and instinctively captured objects through photographic capture. Playing with the medium and having unlimited way to the constructive frame became technical characteristics which were put forward, or unconsciously...

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Art is Research; Research is Art

Akumassa gives priority to an action that encourages the residents to read themselves. The measurement standard of problem object of the residents is not determined by the researcher. Perspective and paradigm come from the residents, the reliability of the research result and the artwork quality...

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Paseban Cultural Community

Paseban inhabitants themselves were very familiar with that history. When I asked why the village was named Paseban, let alone parents, even the children could tell you the story, though in different versions. However, the core of the central Paseban Community was very understandable by the Paseban...

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Grand Theatre Senen

When a person watches movie, he or she looks for a visual experience which is expected to leave an imprint and give us inspiration to explore more to delve its meaning. Regardless of its condition now, Grand Theater has reminded me again why I want to go to the theater. I want to get more than just...

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The Loss of Identity; Survival a la Jakarta

Not infrequently I heard a person cynically made a question and a statement at once to me, or maybe the same thing happened to you very often, when you found someone who felt that she or he knew about history of a certain place so well, or even our own place, more than we knew.

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