(Re)Collection of Togetherness – stage 2: 83 mosquito-passports shown with Pulang – draft 3. And sometimes, somehow, it could feel very, very lonely. Photography by Sari Handayani, at Cemeti Art House, January 2008.
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Great Wallpaper series, installation view at Cemeti Art House. Photography: Sari Handayani.
The Wanton is an indecent creature with no loyalty. Unidentified, it binds to nothing, crosses everything. It knows no nationality and all its nationalities. It fulfills the requirements to acquire green cards, as many as possible, jumping jolly from one to the other. Unexpectedly flirtatious, it could be anywhere at any given time. Nobody knows […]
Packing now, after 3 months in Jogja. In the exhibition I showed Invasion (was Almost Cut when still in progress), Great Wallpaper No. 211/1940, Great Wallpaper No. 12/2602, Great Wallpaper No. 470/I/Sbki/67, (Re)Collection of Togetherness – Stage 2 which included Pulang (was Sobron Sehari-hari until the most recent draft – this is also still in […]
I’ve just read Indi’s entry about a spooky morning with Noe. Gees. Well, a friend told me about the daughter of a friend, who, when she was 3, talked about how she had three other pair of parents before her current parents. Now that was scary. She also talked in her sleep about other weird […]
My grandmother Tan Tjit Nio was born in 1912, in Pangkalpinang. She didn’t have any birth certificate. What she had was a acknowledgment of birth letter made in Batavia in 1940, signed by the Assistent-Resident of the Dutch India government of Batavia. It says: dat Tan Tjit Nio voornoemd niet in het bezit is van […]
When we went to the Ngasem pet market to look for some sand to put in the kite pots, Ratna saw this baby mosquitoes for fish food. She immediately and excitedly asked me whether I still was collecting mosquitoes. I said yes, bought one plastic bag of those baby mosquitoes and brought them back […]
I tried the razorblade/kite setup in the small window between the kitchen and the meeting room in Cemeti studio. The doors to both end of the kitchen were always open, and thus the setup was just very unstable. I wonder how it would manage to keep stature in the gallery – Cemeti Art House is […]
Krijn and I went to the southern alun-alun to jog this morning. Around the alun-alun they have installed new public fitness furnitures in the colours of McDonalds – not dissimilar to the sticks at the end of Tullamarine freeways just a few minutes from my place in Melbourne. The colours made Krijn very happy because […]
Questions: If you were to be reborn, which country would you want to be born in for your next life? Why? If you could change the place where you were born, which country would you want to belong in? Why? If you could choose any country to live in now, which one would you choose? […]