Although later those productions still had to enter the exclusivity to be recognized as ‘art’, because there had to be a person called ‘artist’ who would frame it with his or her subjective sensitivity, still, did they realize that they got it from society?
Subdistrict: Senen
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Senen at Noon
Senen Market is a very crowded place. Multi-storey building as a shopping center where you can buy anything. Thousands of people, traders and buyers, throng the Senen Market everyday. In such situation, there was a small chamber, next to a public toilet, which was functionalized as a praying space for…
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Imaginati
Recording the atmosphere at an old movie theater, Grand Theater Senen, located in Senen Subdistrict, Central Jakarta, Imaginati is a visual narration of subaltern space where social aberrations were as a concrete manifestation of stereotypical images of "second-class cinema". The manifestation was inherent in the architectural landscape of the cinema…
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The Women of Pondok Kaleng
Photography project about women in Pondok Kaleng initiated by Auviar depicted another definition of the women’s role in society in Indonesia. Presumably, there was a notion of the domestic realm that no longer seen as the subordination of women because of a dense residential neighborhood just bring opportunities for those…
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The Objectivity of Instinctive Frame
Photography Exhibition by Children from Paseban was a narration or fragment of event and instinctively captured objects through photographic capture. Playing with the medium and having unlimited way to the constructive frame became technical characteristics which were put forward, or unconsciously became the children’s uniqueness in this exhibition.
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Art is Research; Research is Art
Akumassa gives priority to an action that encourages the residents to read themselves. The measurement standard of problem object of the residents is not determined by the researcher. Perspective and paradigm come from the residents, the reliability of the research result and the artwork quality ultimately will be legitimized by…
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Paseban Cultural Community
Paseban inhabitants themselves were very familiar with that history. When I asked why the village was named Paseban, let alone parents, even the children could tell you the story, though in different versions. However, the core of the central Paseban Community was very understandable by the Paseban inhabitants.
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Grand Theatre Senen
When a person watches movie, he or she looks for a visual experience which is expected to leave an imprint and give us inspiration to explore more to delve its meaning. Regardless of its condition now, Grand Theater has reminded me again why I want to go to the theater.…
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The Loss of Identity; Survival a la Jakarta
Not infrequently I heard a person cynically made a question and a statement at once to me, or maybe the same thing happened to you very often, when you found someone who felt that she or he knew about history of a certain place so well, or even our own…
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Kinetika
The labors' movement rolling and moving the woven cloth to the second floor of the market building; while in a crossing aisle sat the dressmaking mothers who worked manually using their hands; as well as other market visitors passing by. Such relations from all of them form an aesthetic pattern…