It is called Tanah Hitam (Dark Land). A sub district at the foot of Tui Hill, a lime hill mined by public as a source of life. A terrifying landslide occurred in 1987. The local community called it ‘Galodo’. There were many victims then, and many stories were kept.
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Barokah Restaurant, A Bunch of Love Story, and The Perfect Strangers
It was a mango season. At every house I visited I was served mangoes. It was a pleasure, even though they caused a little problem to my digesting system. Randublatung District, Blora Regency. I estimated the heat reached 35 degrees Celsius. The sun blazed everyday, and the heat and humid…
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A Story about a Journey on the Bengawan Train
A few minutes later the clutter had been over. It seemed that the child who was stuck had gotten the help. But, only a few seconds later, came out another scream from another woman. “…My money is lost!!! Huh…where is my money, it was inside my pocket, but now my…
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Art On Senen Border
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?
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No Match Today
At Johar Baru, there was two area, Galur and Paris City, separated by a canal. So many people spent their time at the edge of the canal, such as playing with their pets, the racing pigeons. The bird cages was built up on the board rooted in the edge of…
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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…