Participatory exhibition of/with performances by choreographers from Indonesia and Germany
Bodies of Care is a performing arts project that invites the public to actively participate in a performance created by ten young choreographers from Indonesia and Germany together with performance artist Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia) and the media- and performance collective LIGNA (Germany). As the COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed our culture and gestures of caring about one another, this experimental project critically reviews our understanding and daily practices of care and community care. Responses to ever more urgent questions about care — who cares and who does not care for whom —vary in different local and global contexts.
From June to September 2021, the choreographers collaborated in an explorative workshop series. During the workshop they worked on synchronizing digital and analogue realities and experiences of caring cultures and infrastructures in meaningful ways as well as on connecting them to their specific social contexts on different islands in Indonesia and different cities in Germany. Together, they have crafted instructional choreographies that participants can respond to and perform in different parts of the world.
The exhibition gives a deeper insight into the production process and shows the documentation of creating instructional performances in 10 different local contexts as well as making sense of meaning of community and care in different spaces. In the exhibition space, the audience can watch 10 video works and participate in the instructional performance in the exhibition space at the same time. This way, participants individually or collectively can watch, listen to and move with
Bodies of Care, while exploring gestures and embodied practices of ‘care’ through choreography.
© Kurniadi Ilham
Visiting the Exhibition:
- Only for fully vaccinated visitors that can show a green profile after scanning the barcode in the PeduliLindungi application.
- The temperature of visitors is not more than 37.5℃ and visitors always keep their distance and do not crowd.
- Use a mask at all times (including when taking pictures) and comply with the health protocols that apply at Komunitas Salihara.
Choreographers:
Abdul Hadi (Bandung, Indonesia), Kurniadi Ilham (Jambi, Indonesia), Densiel Lebang (Jakarta/Toraja, Indonesia), I Nyoman Krisna Satya Utama (Bali, Indonesia), Ela Mutiara (Sukabumi, Indonesia), Mekratingrum Hapsari (Solo, Indonesia), I Made Yogi Sugiartha (Bali, Indonesia), Eva Borrmann (Nürnberg, Germany), Izabella Maria, Herzfeld (Berlin, Germany), Marlen Pflueger and Yasmina Lammler (Berlin, Germany).
Sasikirana KoreoLAB and Dance Camp
The Sasikirana KoreoLAB and Dance Camp (SKDC) initiative aims to bring back the notion of the body as a tool of expression, not just the medium of representation. Focusing on contemporary dance, since 2015 Sasikirana annually holds a one-week intensive dance workshop that takes place in NuArt Sculpture Park (Bandung). In 2020 Sasikirana launched DOKUMEN.TARI, an extension of the dance camp that primarily focuses on increasing the skills of Indonesian young dancers in articulating their critical thinking. The program intends to be a platform where young Indonesian dancers can store their life stories accompanied by visual documentation, thus making it the first accessible database of its kind in Indonesia.
LIGNA
is a media & performance collective with artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners and Torsten Michaelsen. Since 2002 their work is devoted to creating temporary situations that utilize the audience as a collective of producers—an association that 6 can produce unforeseeable, uncontrollable effects that challenge the regulation of a space. One of LIGNA´s models of media usage, the Radio Ballet (invented in 2002), provides radio listeners with a choreography of excluded and forbidden gestures in formerly public but now controlled spaces such as train stations and shopping malls. In 2017 LIGNA received the George Tabori prize, the most important award in the German free theater scene.
Melati Suryodarmo
is an Indonesian durational performance artist. Her physically demanding performances make use of repetitive motions and often last for many hours, sometimes reaching “a level of factual absurdity”. Suryodarmo has performed and exhibited throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Born in Surakarta, she attended Padjadjaran University in Bandung and graduated with a degree in international relations before moving to Germany. She lived there for 20 years, studying performance art at the Braunschweig University of Art with Butoh choreographer Anzu Furukawa and performance artist Marina Abramović. Melati later returned to Indonesia and founded Undisclosed Territory, an annual festival for performance art. Melati also established Studio Plesungan in Surakarta.
Norrm Radio
is an online radio station and a platform based in Bandung, Indonesia that started their broadcasting in 2017. Having worked with more than 200 contributors, the platform tries to create networks through music by providing the space for discussions, promoting arts and culture in Asia.
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