22nd August  - 3rd  October 2005

Arts Project

Re:PUBLIK ART

Discover Public Space trough temporary visual arts 

Activities:

Seminar ( 22nd August, 2005)

Workshop (23rd - 27th August 2005)

Action (1st-30th september 2005)

City Tour (3rd October 2005)

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Artist participants:

Uji Handoko, Terra Bajraghosa, Sadat Laope, Iwan Effendi & Iyok Prayoga, Bambang Toko Wicaksono, Marianto (Antok), Popok Triwahyudi, Codit (COLA) dan Farhansiki, Ari Dyanto, Wedharyadi, Uji Handoko, Tatang, Iyok Prayogo, Janu Satmoko, Arya Panjalu, Iwan effendi, Faturrahman Indun, Decky Leos, Hendra Priyadi “Blangkon”, Teater Gardanala, Dani Agus Yuniarto dan Toto Nugroho, L’ATLAS & SUN 7 (perancis), KILL THE DJ, dll

Pointed location:

Kedai Kebun, Jl. Kaliurang - depan Mirota Kampus, Jl. Mataram, Jalan Malioboro, Jl. Tirtodipuran , Selokan Mataram (Perempatan Jl. Gejayan – Selokan Mataram), Taman SMUN 9 Yogyakarta ( Jl. Sagan), sekitar Rumah Susun Sewa, pinggir kali code, Jalan Perwakilan , Jl. Mataram, Galeria Mall, Cemeti art House, Stasiun Kereta Api Tugu, Jl. Cendana dan Pasar Kembang, Kompleks SD Jetisharjo, SD Samirono, SD Kanisius Wirobrajan, Kompleks SD Jetisharjo , SD Samirono, SD Kanisius Wirobrajan.

Team Work:

Project Officer: Marzuki

Supporting system & management: Kedai Kebun Forum

Creative team: Agung Kurniawan, Ari Dyanto, Bambang 'Toko' Witjaksono, Ugoran Prasad

Project Manager: Ratna Mufida

Management team : Yustina W. Neni, Yudhis, Iwan Effendi, Samuel Bagaskara

Photo Documentation: Pak Jepret

Video Documentation: 03 Multimedia Service

Sponsored by:

PT Djarum

Project Overview

After Mural 'epidemic' has been blowing up rapidly in Yogyakarta within several  years later, and resulting so many interesting phenomena, an Arts project namely Re:Publik Art tried to offer an alternative point of view which is more fresh on mural and graffiti.  Re:publik Art started from criticized ideas considering to mural tendencies on being more decorative and later also being occupied by some corporation. Mural, which is aims to be a social expression medium had been 'spiced' by many logo's of commercial advertising, just like billboards and another outdoor advertisings.

In order to discover and present much more fresh ideas on mural and graffiti, Re:Publik held a series of activities, start with seminar,  workshop, and finished by an outdoor visual art action during a whole month on September in Yogyakarta.

Related to relation between art and public space, this project aims to questioned again and re-tracking the existence of public space in Yogyakarta. Is it true that public spaces are exist here? Or it just a myth of the city of culture, while one of pre-requirement of a city plan is there must be an open space that able to being accessed democratically by citizens? Is it true, that public space is not just a thing systematically tend to be created by city's bureaucrat ? Is it true that sporadically struggle by citizens  to seized up and created their own public space is the only way in order to bring publics rights back as a citizen?

Through these series of activities, arts action, and organizing networks that mentioned above, Re:Publik Art expect that activities in public space will be highly rising and resulted what we idealized on public space: Our space.

Seminar

Seminar with a theme: Discover Public space trough temporary visual arts,  aims to find ways for some question mentioned above, by reconsidering visual arts potencies in public space from many views.  Mahatmanto, Architecture lecturer UKDW, try to see this problem from city plan side. Samuel Indratma, artist and activist visual art in public space, revealing up relations that happen between artists and social spaces that they had visited. The last Note Speaker is came from Dinas Tata Kota (City plan department),  give an explanation on the position of Yogyakarta's city plan policy and its direction.

TOR (term of reference) of the seminar

Workshop

The workshop is facilitated by two artists from France, L’Atlas (Street Art) and Sunset (Graffiti), and also Re:Publik Art creative team. Besides tried to open aesthetical map of visual art in public space, they also intend to exploration patterns of thematically ideas as a ways for visual artist to develops their environmental awareness where they present their works. there are 30 visual artists on mural and graffiti from Jakarta, Bandung, Yogya, and Solo join this workshop.

furthermore about  L’Atlas (Street Art)

Notes of September Action

Re:Publik ARt Actions were hold in 16 pointed location among Yogyakarta, chosen as a sites to do the works or as place where those works are being presented.

Two artists from France, l’Atlas and Sun7, working during first half month of September and had finished their graffiti in Cendana street and in Pasar Kembang areas. A group of local artists with graffiti and visual art background doing their works along line of rolling door of shops in Mataram Street. A work, whish is also an energy saving campaign  specially presented in south side wall of Perwakilan street. Another mural and graffiti also had been well done in Selokan Mataram cross junction. Medium of graffiti also taken wider, not only drew up on the wall but also spread out on the street, formed as zebra cross, with a certain number of public services attached on it, placed in Kaliurang street and in the north cross junction of Malioboro street. Besides wall painting and graffiti, Re:Publik Art also holding some three dimension art works.

Still in Tugu train station, Re:Publik Art presented Direction signs Robots and that can used as information board also, and alternative garbage baskets. Aims to create friendly street for children, one of three dimension art works are presented near 3 Elementary School in Yogyakarta. Those works are titled halte tunggu, that used as a stopping place for children while they waiting for their family's to pick them up after school,  and Safety Robots. Both of those works are designed friendly with children imagination, and functional at once to maintain some bad effect of traffic jams nearby school environment, which being so crowded after school time.

Jembatan Juminahan (Juminahan bridge) in Code river areas also being chosen as a palce to presented a mechanical works which aims to raise people awareness to preserve their healthy life environment. Together with this work, a mural also being presented there, which bring reconciliation theme, conform to local history of that bridge reconstruction.

The last three dimensional work which aims to digging up the potential appearance of local heroes. Re:Publik Art choose to present one of an iconic local heroes, Gundala Putera Petir, in front of SMAN 9 Yogyakarta (Senior High School building). this icon seem important for, beside this icon is local product which influenced to certain generation before, also we believe that this kinds of idioms is important to be presented as alternative signs of heroes mind construction in public space.

On 29th September, star from 01.00 pm to 8.00 pm, one day before Republik Art event closing, we presented Gardanalla Toko Cerita (Gardanalla Stories shop), in Galeria Mall.This story shop is an alternative forms of performance art in public space, that presenting actors or non actors who wants to share their stories through their personal object  collections which is being sale and displayed on the shop. a personal story is kept inside each object. a story about people's within their social circle.

After more than a month Re:Publik Art tried to realize our ideas, now, it's time for public to give their opinion and response. By those responses, the growing of activities in public space will be kept away, just like the way Re:Publik give response to other movements before. Somehow, the dream to create a more comfortable city space for living, is not proper enough, if it just left as an empty dream.

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