This is where I’m working for the Landing Soon #5 artist residency until the end of January 2008. This particular studio is at the back of Cemeti Studio (just a few hundred meters from the Cemeti Art House), looking out to the nice backyard. There are 3 bedrooms and 3 studios in this house. […]
The last time I met Sobron was in November 2006, at his daughter Nita’s place in Almere, the Netherlands. I stayed over, chatted with Nita, Bregas and their son Berry for the first time, and a bit with Nita’s daughter Laura (whom I have met in Bali once before) as well. The next day Sobron […]
My father, the Balinese, has several nonsense rhymes that he learned from his childhood days which he has kept reciting forever. He would do one out of the blue: Kaki, Kakiang, Dadong, Dadongkang. And he would do another one to follow his yawnings: Ha, ha, hem Meli tuak ji nenem Men sing telah bang Dèlem […]
The bus was actually a truck with a wooden housing attached to its cargo area at the back. Its seatings were actually wooden benches, all different shapes and colours of them put together in rows. That’s how it got its name, I imagined, “Bis Kayu” – the Wooden Bus. I had to climb up the […]
Suddenly I felt very sad. I have been reading Andrew Spielman’s Mosquito: the Story of Man’s Deadliest Foe, sparsely enjoying the amazing stories in it. When I finished reading the book about two weeks ago, I thought it’s really essential for me to have a chat with Andrew Spielman about mosquitoes (and how I intuitively […]
I thought that if I would use a kite anyway for Almost Cut, the kite has to be extremely light. Perhaps made from dried petals? One of the original idea was to make the kite using paper made out of birth certificates. But I really am not certain about this yet, because the birth certificates […]
Here are some pictures from Intimate Distance exhibition, at National Gallery, Jakarta, in August 2007. Have a Cup of Tea / Meet My Dead Grandfather, a collaboration with Gyora Gal Glupczynski, in the background. (Re)Collection of Togetherness was shown as work-in-progress, with only the first 24 books. Photos courtesy of Carla Bianpoen and Wulan Dirgantoro.
After my first broken tooth ever, I thought about how my body works, and how I’m always more interested in fine motoric control and practically disregard the grosser ones. Unbalanced. It would be nice if I would be able to move like a parkourist does. About nine years ago a friend I haven’t seen again […]
I’m having fun, and going mad! When I came in this morning the razor blade with the red thread was down. I wonder whether that was because of the fan (it’s hot today!) or if someone has touched it. Or if it’s from the weight of the black thread (the one that came through the […]
Okay. I’ve done another setup next to the first one, using the cylindrical magnet this time (the one with 9.9 kg pull strength, 8 mm x 25 mm). It works with only 1 magnet, so that’s the strength that I need. Interestingly I guess the poles in this one is different than the block one […]