proposal palaundisc-new2011

8/7/2019 Proposal PALAUndisc-new2011

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PALA ProjectApril 22 - 27, 2011Sukuh Temple

Karanganyar,

Central JavaIndonesia

UNDISCLOSED TERRITORY #5April 29, 30 - May 1, 2011

Padepokan Lemah Putih

Solo

Indonesia

PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY (PALA) PROJECT +

UNDISCLOSED TERRITORY #5

2011


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Continuing our Bali-Java project from 2007 inwhich the Undisclosed Territory was a followup activity of the 15 th Performance ArtConference in Bali, 2007s UndisclosedTerritory #2 was connected with thePerformance Art Laboratory Project (PALA Project) 2008 in Bali. PALA 2009 was followedby Undisclosed Territory#3, which the hasbeen succeeded for its 2 days event in Solo.PALA Project 2010 and undisclosed territories#4 was focusing on the exchange betweenthe Black Market International with numbers ofperformance artists from Asian countries.

Different than the past three years, bothprojects took place at the Padepokan LemahPutih Solo, Java, Indonesia.After four successful years of the projects, wedecide to continue with PALA Project 2011 andUndisclosed Territory #5.PALA Project 2011 is purposed to providespace and time for the participating artists toshare their artistic processes, to exchangeexperiences, practical and conceptualmethods, and to enhance dialogues in a kindof organically structured laboratory process

and in a concentrated place. It will take placeat the village in the mountain area and Sukuhtemple.

For our Undisclosed Territory#5, PadepokanLemah Putih intends to provide time and spacefor work presentations, developing newunderstanding and opening dialogue betweenthe artists and with the public within thecontext of performance art.Both projects are two strong connectedelements in which artists have moreconcentrated time and space to experienceexchange and dialogue processes betweenartists as well as being present for public inone place.

Pad epo kan Lem ah Pu t ih has bee ncollaborating with Boris Nieslony to put theconceptual basement for PALA Project since2007. We consider using one conceptualbasement for several periods of the project, inorder to achieve dynamic that arise from eachperiod regarding the diversity of the artistsinvolved.

The deviation between body-movements,body-gestures and body language anddeviation of the transport of contents entitledour focus to open the laboratory project and to

be conti nued for sharin g, exchange,developing new work, collaborations orpresentations.

We hope that by realizing both projects, artistsand public are stimulated to broaden anddeepen their perspectives about performanceart in art, social and cultural, as well as,humanity contexts.

Melati Suryodarmo

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I N T R O D U C T I O N

JASON LIMS RED THREAD (ABOVE) AND CAI QING, PALA 2010AT LEMAH PUTIH SOLO


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The laboratory will run under a working frame, which is prepared by thefacilitators. The facilitators will provide a basic concept from the artisticgenre for the laboratory, arrange and put the program together. Facilita-tors will arrive earlier in order to develop a structure and schedule of thelaboratory, together with the organizer.Participating artists are selected artists by the organizer and facilitators.Participating artists are international and Indonesian artists in their midor advanced carrier in performance art or performing arts.

Form of Activities

- Philosophical understanding- Laboratories- Physical practices- Visual awareness- On site realization and practices- Open discussions- Collaborations, working group and open sessions

Themes and Focus

Theme 1The deviation between body-movements, body-gestures and bodylanguage( see page below )

Theme 2Some Thoughts about the Deriving/Originating of contextual Concepti-ons in EncounteringSomatic CultureInteraction with the various forms of human existence, coincidentalattendances and absences, Spacious realities and circumstances, withlevels and layers of enlivened worlds, realities. A discourse with theparticipatory modication, human and place, gestus and habitus, dea-ling and wheeling, etc.These facts can be seen as parameters within the most differentialencounters. I call them parameters, because I was shown the mostdiverse structural differences in various encounters, no touching anycultural inheritance, not the cultural representation of the daily, notfounded by the cultural presence of a single person, a population, anation, but touch the "idiosyncrasies of the daily" and therefore have atemporal longer lasting period of the course of process, then theparticular representation of the particular national culture.Next to the ethnographic and anthropological context, the big interestexists to explore counter-relations that embody themselves as dynamicchanges and that have to be dened as pre-cultural forces.This is examined in various elds of problematic and I want to portraitsome of them in the following passages.In this theoretical eld should carry questions, theses and considerati-ons, brought in by the invited artists, who burn them on the heart.

Practical Application

1. Introduction and leading processThe facilitators are responsible to introduce the program, based onthe concept.They are also expected to lead all presentation, arrange the time,and order of artists presentation

2. Artist presentations, lecture, performative presentationsArtists are asked to present their creative process, by presentationin a form of talk, interactive media work, documentation screening.Each artist will be provided with one hour presentation time, inclu-ded the question and answer session.3. Practical sharingArtists may offer a specic technique or exercise they use in theircreative process. It should be discussed beforehand with the cura-tor.4. Sessions:

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Session (1): shows the different possibilities of co-operations.Duet, Trio, and other forms more. Insert by the interest of theartists and coming out by the theoretical talks. The sessioncould be frame some models of known and unknown interac-tions between humans artistic attitudes.

- Session (2): personal interactions or site-specic interventionin a very specic outdoor surrounding

- Open Session: open for all invited artists. An open session isan open situation, where artists can enter and leave the spaceto do performance, actions, interactions, improvisations, etc.It will be some hours session, mostly in the evening. After theopen session, there will be a round discussion.

5. Introducing local artistsThe laboratory will include the presence of local (traditional) artistand art critics.

We will ask the artists to give a talk, about their method, history andrecent condition, before or after they present their performances.6. Introducing the environmental sources around the Solo area.We will travel to one or two specic sites around Solo, i.e. Waterfall,and temples, mountain side

Places of PALA

The laboratory has been taking place in the region or area where allartists can work in a kind of common social sites in Indonesia, such invillages as well as in the place which is close to the naturalenvironment.PALA needs a place where artists can concentrate to work and beingseparated from their own domestic daily life.The rst PALA in 2008 and the second PALA in 2009, had taken place inthe Tejakula Village, northern coast of Bali. All artists were staying in thesame area and spend the whole week together. The third PALA in 2010,had taken place at the area of Padepokan Lemah Putih, which is situa-ted in the village, northern part of Solo city. The fourth PALA in 2011 willtake place in the Sukuh Temple area, 60 kilometers away from Solo tothe Mount Lawu region.

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FRAMEWORK PALA PROJECT 2011


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DAY, DATE 07:00 - 09:00 09:00 - 12:00 12:00 - 14:00 14:00 - 18:00 18:00 - 20:00 20:00 - 22:00

Thursday,April 21, 2011

last day of arrival, directly travel to the lodging place at Sukuh Temple.Lunch Dinner

Friday,April 22, 2011 breakfast

Introduction,planning, materialpreparation Lunch Session (1) Dinner Session (2)

Saturday,April 23, 2011 breakfast Session (1) Lunch Session (1) Dinner Session (1)

Sunday,April 24, 2011 breakfast

walk in the forest,or visit plantation Lunch Session (1) Dinner Session (2)

Monday,April 25, 2011 breakfast Session (1) Lunch Session (2) Dinner Session (1)

Tuesday,April 26, 2011 breakfast Session (1) Lunch Session (2) Dinner Session (2)

Wednesday,April 27, 2011

breakfast Session (1) Lunch

Travel back toSolo, checklocation at LemahPutih dinner

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P A L A 2 0 1 1

T I M E S C H E D U L E


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PALA 2011 LOCATION

The projects will be held around the area ofSukuh Temple, Karanganyar, Central Java.Sukuh temple is located in Berjo Village, Argo-yoso district, in the slope of mount Lawu 35Km east of Solo at a height about 910 m abovesea level. The temple stretches from the eastto the west with the main gate in the west.

Sukuh Temple is decorated with wayang stonecarvings of Hindu origin.The temples are distinctive compared withother ancient temples in Central Java, and itsuniqueness lies in the landscaping, statuettes,and relief. The temples occupy an 11,000m2area and consist of three terraces, each con-nected with an ascending alley. The most inu-ential part is the last terrace, at the very backof the compound. At this very sacred area,once erected a homogenous phallic statue,which is now displayed at the National Muse-um, Jakarta.Another interesting and controversial factor ofthis historical site is the artistic relief on itsoor, which depict male and female organssymbolizing the birth of life. This kind of con-struction is common in prehistoric time, espe-cially in the megalithic era of pundan berundak(terrace grave). The temple consist of threeterraces, the rst terrace is the lowest level,followed by the second and the third above it.The terrace are connected with stairs to eachother, each of it has an entrance gate. Thetemple has believed to be constructed in the

15th century during the declining years of Ma-japahit Empire. The relief found beside therst gate are believed had mean (sengkalan)reads Gapura Buta Aban Wong and GapuraButa Anahut Bubut, meaning the year of 1359saka or 1437 AD.

Behind the temple is a forest which belongs tothe natural preservation. The area is famouswith its clove plantation.

We will also provide another place for thelaboratory meeting and lunch and dinnergathering.

ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSPORTATION

Padepokan Lemah Putih will help and assistall participant tp manage lodging andtransportation for all of the participatingartists.

Accommodation for the PALA Project 2011participants artists will be arranged aroundthe area of the temple, with a simple housingand budget guest house nearby.

There is no regular public transportation, butsome local people offer a shuttle mini bus ormotorbike taxi. However, all spots of thelaboratory are in walk distance.

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SUKUH TEMPLE

Images of placesSukuh Temple (left).The view from the lodging area (right)


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undisclosed territory #5

performance art event

Undisclosed Territory is an annualperformance art event which was held for therst time in March 2007 at the PadepokanLemah Putih Solo, Indonesia.This event is promoted to introduce andpresent performance art works by Indonesianand International performance artists.The rst Undisclosed Territory 2007 includedworks of 13 international and 12 Indonesianperformance artists. All the international artistswere participant artists at the 15 th Performance Art Conference which was heldin Bali and was organized by ASA Europeanand Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo. During theUndisclosed Territory 2007, a lecture held byBoris Nieslony (Germany), artists talk andv i d e o s c r e e n i n g o f p e r f o r m a n c edocumentation and short and long duration

performances were included in the program.The three days full time program from 24 th 26 th of March 2007, has attracted hundreds oflocal public and visitors from other cities. A group of students from ISI Jogjakarta dancedepartment has intensively joined and stayedfor the whole 3 days.

Undisclosed Territory # 2 was the secondBali Java connected project, which wasbased on the curatorial concept by BorisNieslony. 16 artists from worldwide and 11

artists from Indonesia were participating at ourfour days full time scheduled program. We alsohad four interesting lectures held by JrgenFritz (Black Market International), Tran Luong(Doing Something else - Performane Art inVietnam), Christine Biehler (Sculpture and/as

an Act ion ) and SS. Ati eq Lis tyo wat i(Performance art in Indonesia).From 10 th to 13 th of April 2008, UndisclosedTerritory#2 has attracted immense number ofpublic who are not only from the local artscene, but visitors came from other towns andespecially our neighborhood from the villagearound the area of Padepokan Lemah Putih.

undisclosed territory # 3 was the third Bali Java connected project, which was scheduledon the 3 rd and 4 th of April 2009. undisclosedterritory # 3 included artists presentations,video screening of participating artistsp r e v i o u s w o r k s , a r t i s t s t a l k s a n dperformances. 15 artists from Germany,Switzerland, Australia, Thailand, Singapore,Sweden and Indonesia were participating.

From April the 2 nd to the 4 th, 2010, undisclo-sed territory#4 invited the Black Market In-ternational, one of the renowned performance

art group, which has been existing since thelast 25 years and thirteen artists from Asiaincluded from Indonesia.

undisclosed territory #5 will be scheduledon April 29 th , 30 th and May 1 st , 2011. Padepo-kan Lemah Putih invites around twenty-sixartists included artists from the USA, France,Poland, Northern Ireland, Singapore, Thailand,China, Spain, Germany, Australia and Indone-sia.

Schedule:April, 29 th , 30 th and May 1 st , 2011

Place: Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo

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UNDISCLOSEDTERRITORY #5

Jacques Van Poppel (top), Lee Wen(middle), Suprapto Suryodarmo (bot-tom) undisclosed territory #4, JrgenFritz (left) undisclosed territory #2


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DAY, DATE 07:00 - 09:00 09:00 - 12:00 12:00 - 14:00 15:00 - 18:00 19:00 - 22:00

Thursday,April 28, 2011

preparation

Friday,April 29, 2011

Opening

performance

performance

erformance

performanceperformance

Saturday,April 30, 2011

Lecture performance performance

performance performance



Sunday,May 1, 2011

long durationalerformance performance performance




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U N D I S C L O S E D T E R R I T O R Y # 5 S C H E D U L E


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LOCATIONUNDISCLOSED TERRITORY #5

The projects will be held at the area ofPadepokan Lemah Putih Solo. Located in DesaPlesungan, Northern part of Solo, PadepokanLemah Putih is an interdisciplinary artsinstitution and a place where public and artistscan experience the work of local, Indonesian

and international artists working in the areas oftraditional as well as contemporary basedperforming arts, visual arts, included newmedia and performance arts.Padepokan Lemah Putih area and facilitationsare designed suitably to its original villageenvironment and provides possibilities to deve-lop art works in a ca. 4 ha outdoor landscapes,and pendopos. Padepokan Lemah Putih alsooffers a vision of contemporary art in which thenatural landscape and social environment,including the historical background are deter-minants in the creation of the works.

The place is facilitated with:- 4 Hectars landscape studio, open door withpath ways, small hills, river, Teak trees,Mandala platform, square platforms- 2 Javanese Pendopo. (13 x 13 meters, with100 audience capacity) and (7 x7 meters, forvideo screening)- Located on the northern part of Solo city. 20minutes drive to the city centre.

ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSPORTATION

Padepokan Lemah Putih will help and assistall participant to manage lodging andtransportation during their stay in Solo.

Accommodation for the UndisclosedTerritory#5 participanting artists will bearranged around the area of Lemah Putih,with a simple housing, art centre dormitory,budget guest house or hotels in Solo CItydown town.

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PADEPOKAN LEMAH PUTIH

Images of placesThe area of Padepokan Lemah Putih is located inthe north part of Solo and remains as a landscapestudio with the village environment athmosphere(left).The view from CIlimas, Tejakula Bali (top). Artisttalk during the undisclosed territory#1 at thependopo Padepokan Lemah Putih (middle). Cakrahomestay, where the artits are staying in Solo(bottom)


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ORGANIZERS

MELATI SURYODARMOProject Manager

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DIAH WELMA MAYAHATI

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YULIATI

Treasurer

KURNIA ARIANTO

Public Relations

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RETNO SAYEKTI LAWU

Operational Manager

BORIS NIELONY

[email protected]

MELATI SURYODARMO

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SUPRAPTO SURYODARMO

DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTION

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PADEPOKAN LEMAH PUTIH SOLO

Host Institution

www.lemahputih.com

[email protected]

Bonorejo RT 01/RW 02

P le sungan Gondangre jo

Karanganya r 57773

S u r a k a r t a

Jawa Tengah

Indones i a

PARTICIPANTS

Marilyn Arsem (USA)Djarot Budidarsono (Indonesia)Jrn Burmester (Germany)Michel Collet (France)Yingmei Duan (China/Germany)Sandra Johnston (N/Ireland)Ray Langenbach (USA/Malaysia)Carlos Llavata (Spain)Guh S Mana (Indonesia)Afrizal Malna (Indonesia)Boris Nieslony (Germany)Isa Perkasa (Indonesia)Alan Schacher (Australia)Angie Seah (Singapore)

Fitri Setyaningsih (Indonesia)Aor Nopawan Sirivejkul (Thailand)Jed Spear (USA)Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia)Suprapto Suryodarmo (Indonesia)Waldemar Tatarczuk (Poland)Valentine Verhaeghe (France)Iwan Wijono (Indonesia)Yoyoyogasmana (Indonesia)

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