It was a mango season. At every house I visited I was served mangoes. It was a pleasure, even though they caused a little problem to my digesting system. Randublatung District, Blora Regency. I estimated the heat reached 35 degrees Celsius. The sun blazed everyday, and the heat and humid air...
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A Story about a Journey on the Bengawan Train
A few minutes later the clutter had been over. It seemed that the child who was stuck had gotten the help. But, only a few seconds later, came out another scream from another woman. “…My money is lost!!! Huh…where is my money, it was inside my pocket, but now my pocket is torn, somebody tore my...
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?
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...