Joseph Beuys' 100-year Body Journey workshop presentation with 11 interdisciplinary participants.
- Opening: Sunday, December 5, 2021 | 7 PM
- Exhibition: 7-11 December 2021 | 10 AM - 5 PM
- Final presentation discussion: 11 December 2021 | 3 - 5 PM with Arahmaiani, Mella Jaarsma, und Wimo Ambala Bayang
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Participants
- Candrani Yulis
- Dapeng Gembiras
- Deden Ardiansyah
- Eka Wahyuni
- Faida Rachma
- Ignatius Suluh Putra
- Lutfi Retno Wahyudyanti
- Maria Silalahi
- Nisa Ramadani
- Pinka Oktafia
- Wildan Iltizam
The “New Normal”—the safety measures of the pandemic—carries a message from the universe to humankind to be “more mindful” in understanding the context of self as part of society and nature. This includes spiritual cleansing, understanding life that is happening around us, and interpreting the post pandemic world. Most people want to return to pre-pandemic “normal” conditions immediately when it is over. Meanwhile, life is run with an exploitative market-mechanistic system, transactional relationships between humans that are destructive to nature, and disharmony with the universe.
Joseph Beuys said that everyone is an artist. Similarly, in classical Nusantara society art is ritual and essential to spiritual-cultural society. Beuys’ art is entwined in the socio-political life of society and environment, even in a supernatural sense. In the post-pandemic art-making process, a new consciousness is necessary to go beyond the physical body, to see the phenomenon of pure life in generating creative contextual ideas (Beuys' anthroposophy is connected to ancient Asian culture through Rudolf Steiner).
The Body Journey workshop included 11 participants of various professions and backgrounds—graphic design, video/film, dance, digital art, anthropology, curation, performing arts, art management, and cross-discipline. Beauty does not lie in the nature of physical materiality. The contextuality presents the clarity of meaning and events—unified public thought and memory (data) of space and time where art is presented (online/offline) as Social Sculpture. The body of the artist is the creator, and the medium acts as a presentation in the exhibition room. Meanwhile, the media and techniques are not the artistic goals—they are presented as the extension of body and as the language of expression.
Author: Iwan Wijono
*This exhibition is part of the celebration of 100 Years Beuys. Body Journey was initiated by Goethe-Institut Indonesien and co-managed with Cemeti-Institute for Art and Society.
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