Yogyakarta: Artist-in-Residence

About the residency

Cemeti’s artist-in-residence programme provides a platform for artists with post-studio based practice, encouraging an open process of artistic research and knowledge exchange. The driving ambition of the residency is to encourage and support artists to connect directly with local communities, build meaningful relationships, through their work address key issues at stake in the local context and beyond, and develop their own practice. The residency team supports the artists in developing critical perspectives on their own practice, connecting them with local artists, curators, art workers, researchers and academics, as well as with a diverse range of constituencies from across Yogyakarta.

About Cementi

Cemeti - Institute for Art and Society (formerly ‘Cemeti Gallery’, then ‘Cemeti Art House’) was founded in Yogyakarta in 1988, making it Indonesia’s oldest platform for contemporary art. The new subtitle ‘Institute for Art and Society’ was added in 2017 by a new team, with the aim to focus on artists and cultural practitioners working to actively address key social and political issues in Yogyakarta, the country and the region; exploring the possibility for a gallery to act as a site for civic action. The use of the word ‘Institute’ builds on the idea of instituting as a collective social process in which we find forms for shared urgencies and ideologies.

Cemeti Institute offers a platform to artists to develop, present and practice their work, in close collaboration with art workers, including curators, researchers, activists, writers, performers, as well as non-art communities. This takes the shape of exhibitions, workshops, talks, assemblies, publications, research threads, residencies and more.

Programme

During the residency, Cemeti’s team will act as a critical discussion partner throughout with a weekly Breakfast Club to discuss the artists’ interests, questions and experiences. During the course of their stay the artist-in-residence will be asked to initiate several public events. This includes Kamar Tokek (“Lizard Room”); an open platform for residents to share anything from films, books, food and artworks to ideas, or to organise meetings or workshops in support of their artistic research. The residency will culminate in a final presentation, which can take the form of an exhibition, performance, lecture, workshop or anything else that is fitting for the artists’ work and practice.

Residency Team

Cemeti has a full time Residency Manager who leads on the delivery of the programme with the support of Cemeti team who can assist with artwork and exhibition production needs. In addition, for each residency period Cemeti hires one program assistant (reporting to the Residency Manager) who works directly with the residency artists to support their artistic research process, connect them to Cemeti’s network (as well as their own), facilitate meetings with non-art communities through translation (both linguistic and cultural) and support material/production needs.

Accommodation

The artist-in-residence stay in one of two locations: one of two bedrooms located on the second floor of Cemeti’s gallery, or a one-bedroom house located nearby Cemeti (Rumah Nangka). The rooms each have a double bed, desk, cupboard, mosquito net and air-conditioning. The shared space contains a bathroom with hot shower, an open kitchen with table looking out on Cemeti’s courtyard garden and an outside area. Rumah Nangka is located within walking distance from Cemeti, and has a double bed, desk, cupboard, mosquito net and air-conditioning, private bathroom with hot shower, an open kitchen and outside terrace. During the second and third month of each residency Cemeti provides working space in the form of a studio and desk in Cemeti’s gallery from which to work and venture out across the city.

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