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THE AUSTRALIAN ART OF WAYANG
Jakarta is famous for having food carts on just about every street corner, selling favorites like nasi goreng , bakso , mie ayam, gado-gado and martabak. But one warm recent Wednesday afternoon, drivers and street vendors in the Cikini and Menteng area in South Jakarta saw a very different kind of food cart on the street. The cart was striking in appearance, painted in shades of baby blue and ...Read more ►
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Wrapping up
I'm now at the end of my time in Jakarta. I'm thinking back on the process of the residency.To deliberate on the creative process of art, which is usually intuitive, with intension to deconstruct seems a strange and almost impossible act. Certainly for me! Perhaps I would be better equipped if I had degrees in Sociology.The IASKA mission runs very close to my recent artwork, so I found the ...Read more ►
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Roderick Sprigg - Jakarta March 19
In his latest novel Map of the invisible World, Malaysian author Tash Aw discusses selective amnesia in the context of Indonesian history. One of his protagonists notes that Europeans remember bad things, while Asians forget them- as a way of erasing pain-, concluding that "...to be ignorant of one's true history is to live in a void...where you do not really exist..."- Iola Lenzi. Article: ...Read more ►
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Roderick's visual diary, March 3
Peter Campus: Self & examining identity with video technology - blue-box superimposition. "In Aen` (1977) when the viewer enters a room he is confronted with an upside-down image of himself. One/s own image, inflated to a size that fills a screen becomes, especially by being upside down, something strange."Theorist ROSALIND KRAUSS: video, a medium of narcissism. "Video's real medium is a ...Read more ►
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Update from Roderick Sprigg, February 27
Spent the afternoon interviewing community members in a Jakarta suburb. I'm asking questions to find out the local people's sense of belonging and importance. I'm being helped with the process of talking to people and filming by my paid assistant Nick who is a local artist.Read more ►
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From Roderick's visual journal February 22
At this point interest lies in Shadows : traditional shadow puppets/puppetry that educates all ages with philosophical & religious beliefs. Storytelling where the shadows can represent people and spirits. Although shadows are absence of light, they (can) do away with what, or how, the person portrays themselves and is representative of PRESENCE. Can be said to be a truer descriptor of āspiritā? ...Read more ►
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News from Roderick Sprigg, February 13
Arriving in Jakarta for the first time is likely to give most vertigo. The city sprawls with undulating CBD type centres, malls, high-rise apartments to recycled iron shacks of the lower class villages, then back to the sky-scrapers. The massive size and set-up of the city makes it hard to get ones bearings. Thankfully the taxis are relatively cheap and they know where they are going most of the ...Read more ►
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Jakarta Post article
Jakarta is famous for having food carts on just about every street corner, selling favorites like nasi goreng , bakso , mie ayam, gado-gado and martabak. But one warm recent Wednesday afternoon, drivers and street vendors in the Cikini and Menteng area in South Jakarta saw a very different kind of food cart on the street. The cart was striking in appearance, painted in shades of baby blue and ...Read more ►
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Roderick Sprigg, Jakarta
Roderick Sprigg spent two months based at the Jakarta Arts Institute developing new work influenced by wayang kulit, Indonesian shadow puppet theatre. The artist filmed interviews with locals at a village neighborhood in Jakarta, later recreating their stories as a wayang kulit-style animated video. The animation formed part of a street performance in which the artist pushed a modified food cart ...Read more ►