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KEDAI KEBUN FORUM
Kedai Kebun Forum
is an alternative art
space in Yogyakarta managed independently by artists and consisting of a
gallery, performance space, ‘HALTE’ – a text learning media in art,
bookstore and restaurant.
Kedai Kebun Forum is a small community established with the
purpose of providing an arena of learning and studying, in the context
of developing sensibilities to all phenomena of social transformation
through art.
All activities of
Kedai Kebun Forum are supported by its extraordinary restaurant.
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Gallery
map
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Performance space profile
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Space
map of Kedai Kebun
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Denah
Lokasi Kedai Kebun
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CONCEPT
Kedai Kebun
Forum is “alternative playing space”, in the sense of having the courage
to test or challenge established, strong-rooted values in art today.
Kedai
Kebun Forum believes that art is the result of social reflection and not
autonomous so that all kinds of art—good or bad it may be—can be seen as
the manifestation of social developments.
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SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
Kedai Kebun is
managed independently by artists.
In running the
business and a number of activities,
it applies
consistently a mode of effective, efficient, and contextual management
regarding its necessity and resource (with all advantages and shortages)
in its living. As a consequence, the management is in dynamic, erratic,
and unstable motion.
Kedai Kebun
performs itself as an alternative choice considering that the role of
the state to provide services to public through its (art) spaces does
not function appropriately. This fact has given such an embedded
identity to Kedai Kebun Forum as a public space.
Consequently, it
should equalize this emerging social standpoint with strategically steps
to stay alive as well as drives to form (art) public awareness of its
right to access (art) spaces owned by the state. The taken steps are:
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Applying crossed
subsidy.
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Functioning as a
supporting system to other institutions and encouraging unfortunate
artists who have appealing ideas to perform.
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Join forces
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Building
entrepreneurship.
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FACILITIES
Gallery.
Space measurement: 6m x 9m x 3,25m, cement floor, flat lighting.
Performance Space. Capacity: 150 person, Space
measurement: width : 9m ; length: 14m ; tall: 4,5m/ 6m (till bar/ roof). Electricity: Circuit : 48 channel.
Lighting system: Bar lampu death hang : 6 line, Lighting Par 38 120 watt
(30 pcs), halogen 500 watt (3 pcs), Dimmer pack LITE PUTTER CX-12 96
ch, Power pack LITE PUTTER 12 ch. Sound System: CD Player, 4 side
speaker BOSE 101 MM, mixer sound YAMAHA Mixing console MG 16/4, Power
Amplifier, 2 Dynamic microphone SHURE SM 58.
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ACTIVITIES
1.Besides our own
initiative, Kedai Kebun Forum also receives
proposal of curatorial from any discipline, both individual and
group, even visual and performance arts. For some events, KKF also
Functioning as a supporting system.
Considering to Indonesian “poorness” context, this work is more
inspirational to other institutions and encouraging unfortunate artists
who have appealing ideas to perform. We emphasize the primacy of this
interdisciplinary interaction.
2. Managing its restaurant
in a professional way as a source of income
The interior of Kedai Kebun Restaurant is
designed as an intermediary space and at the same time an intersection
of events take place in the gallery and in the performance room. The air
flowing gently from the open space would create a breezy and relaxed
ambience and gives this room a cozy atmosphere for you to have a chat
while gratifying your taste in the paradise of salad and Javanese
dishes. We offer more than 150 menus, ranging over a variety of
Indonesian, Chinese, and European menus as well as vegetarian ones. All
are palatable, healthy, in reasonable price. If you are bored with
running a meeting or seminar in luxurious hotels, our room offers you
homeliness and congeniality.
3. Publishing HALTE - a
text learning media in art, and managing bookstore & clothing
HALTE, a text learning media in art, is a
quarterly viewers’ journal. Articles are not edited.
4. Organizing artists
residency
5. Ministry of Fun
We accommodate
pleasure-oriented proposals from stressed out artists who keep missing
out on exhibitions and being ignored by international curators for being
not able to use video camera, and also from famous artists but whose
works are considered past by young unknown artists, or from brilliant
and potential young eniversity lecturers who lost their jobs after their
universities being rationalized by unpopular local politicians, or from
NGO workers who have had enough of helping the poor but too scared to
leave their jobs because not yet well known
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HISTORY
Kedai Kebun Forum was
established in September 1996 as a restaurant, which fortunately had an
empty space behind the kitchen that was then used for regular visual
arts exhibitions, theatre, music and dance performances, poetry and
story readings, and cultural discussions.
Although to begin with, the activities in the restaurant and this space
out the back did not clash, the goings on in these two spaces eventually
began to get in the way of each other. So, the idea emerged to build a
new, completely separate space. The renovations began In December 2001
and were completed in May 2003. The biggest challenge was how to build
an alternative performance space that meets acoustic standards on a
limited budget. So, we went on the hunt for less expensive materials to
build our dream performance space. Finally, we discovered batagama
bricks, innovative invention by Ir. Kardiyono from Civil Engineering
Department of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. Batagama are produced
by the people of Bawuran village, Pleret Bantul regency, Yogyakarta.
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