Assalamualaikum First and foremost, we would like to congratulate AgungGunawan and The Arts Island Festival for a great event. Since the inaugural festival in 2010, we have seen the festival grow from strength to strength. Today we are witnessing a display of great mix of International and Local artists. In The Arts Island Festival (ITAIF) is a sister festival to Melaka Arts and Performance Festival (MAP Fest) and was established with a model on finding new ways to involve the arts, artists and the general community. MAPFest has a high national, and international profile, being recognised for its program of exciting independent arts, collaborations and its use of alternative sites for performance. ITAIF has its own was of involving local communities and indeed the close network and exchange of new ideas between festival creative directors, Agung Gunawan and Tony Yap constanly address the changing ways to back basic links between artists and the general public. These festivals remain inclusive and free to all. Agung and Tony are long-term collaborators and challenge the nonwestern approach of art practice to the global contemporary arena. The festivals visions are unique and always reflecting news ways of promoting the practice of revolutionary art, free of convention, the power of structure and the market place. That art remain richly diverse with individual voices. We make art accessible to all in heritage site-specific milieu. Both festivals have made great connections for international artists together with Malaysians and Indonesian artist to result in many important new works and continuity. We are very proud to be a supporter to Agung Gunawan and the Arts Island Festival. With the continuous support from supporters and Government bodies we will continue to see the festival flourish and grow. Agung, being an established and world-renowned dancer, he has also recently been awarded the Cameronian Awards for Choreography in Malaysia for his collaboration works.
Andrew Ching Festival Supporter Melaka Art & Performance Festival www.melakafestival.com
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The Arts Island Festival adalah kesempatan langka dan unik bagi seniman kontemporer Indonesia untuk mempresentasikan karya mereka kepada masyarakat dan touring seniman internasional. Dengan sedikitnya dana seni yang tersedia di Indonesia festival ini menawarkan platform bagi seniman untuk mempresentasikan hasil kerjanya yang dikemas dalam sebuah festival budaya. Keinginan di balik penyelenggaraan The Arts Island Festival adalah menunjukkan betapa pentingnya keberadaan seni dalam masyarakat. Kedatangan para seniman yang menyediakan waktunya akan mendapatkan pengalaman penyajian dari kerja touring tersebut. Semua pertunjukan dalam festival ini GRATIS, ini yang mendorongan bagi komunitas ataupun masyarakat untuk mendukung kerja para seniman. Saya ingin menyebut dan mengakui pentingnya semua seniman dalam festival ini, kemandirian dan penguasaannya dalam pengembangan karya-karya kreatif mereka. Ini adalah sebuah komunitas seniman yang akan dan telah membuat hubungan yang mendalam satu sama lain. Kami akan terus bekerja bersama dan menemukan karya-karya kreatif yang baru dan menarik. The Arts Island Festival is a rare and unique opportunity for Indonesian independent contemporary artists to present their work alongside touring international artists. With little funding for the arts available in Indonesia, this festival offers a platform for independent artists to present work and be immersed in festival culture. The drive behind The Arts Island Festival shows the importance of the arts within the community. All artists offer their time pro bono in return for the experience of presenting and touring work. All performances are FREE, encouraging the community to support artistic expression. I would like to mention and acknowledge the importance of every artist in this festival, their independence and mastery in the development their creative works. This is a community of artists who will and have made deep connections to each other. We continue to collaborate and find new and exciting creative works.
Agung Gunawan Founder &Director
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Multicultural Arts Victoria strongly supports the objectives of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which states the need to create the conditions for cultures to flourish and to freely interact in a mutually beneficial manner. The Arts Island Festival is a unique site specific initiative created and directed by dancer Agung Gunawan which brings cultures and arts forms together to flourish. In the expression of diverse cultures through art we enable people to feel connected, represented and it enables us to learn about each other in creative and expressive ways that contributes to greater understanding and respect. The festival also celebrates Indonesia as a country rich in diverse cultures and arts, with close cultural ties and relationships with Australia and the region. The Arts Island Festival also builds connections and understanding of Indonesian life beyond the major centres, major theatres and importantly profiles the rich independent arts sector in Indonesia and Australia. Now in its fourth year, the Festival is an opportunity for both local Indonesian artists and International artists to present their work in regional Indonesia and establish future collaborative relationships, strengthening contemporary arts networks between contemporary independent artists. For the Australian artists the Festival creates a unique opportunity for performance, collaboration and creative cross cultural dialogue. This year through the support of the Australia Indonesia Institute Multicultural Arts Victoria and Melbourne based artists/technologists Jesse Stevens and Dean Petersen -Cake Industries, will be collaborating with Bimo Suryojati, RM Altiyanto Henryawan, Agung Gunawan and Deasylina da Ary to present Shadows on the Wall as part of the Festival. This new Australia-Indonesia collaboration encourages the exploration of technology, performance and community engagement through the utilisation of future technologies, robotics and dance. “Shadows on the Wall is supported by the Commonwealth through the AustraliaIndonesia Institute of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade”. Multicultural Arts Victoria has proudly supported the establishment and development of The Arts Island Festival for the past three years and strongly supports participation of Australian artists. MAV has worked closely with Tony Yap, who is also the founding creative director of the Melaka Arts and Performance Festival in Malaysia, sister festival to the Arts Island Festival, who has mentored and collaborated with Agung as a fellow creative since 2005. The 2013 festival importantly also builds on connections developed through Aging’s Australia Indonesia Institute artistic residency in Australia in 2012. Multicultural Arts Victoria congratulates The Arts Island Festival team on their vision in creating a remarkable independent international cultural Festival for creative cultural expression and discourse that strengthens the relationships between people and communities.
JILL MORGAN AM Chief Executive Officer Multicultural Arts Victoria
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Janette Hoe & Adam Forbes Title of the work Meeting (Pertemuan) Synopsis Meeting a self. Meeting an other. Meeting a place. Where is the place inside us where we meet?
Nicky Marr Title of the work Little Dances Synopsis ‘…these are the little dances you do when the dance is over ...’ Little Dances finds the invisible dances we do every day. From ballet shoes to high heels, Little Dances takes a cheeky look at the affectations of femininity and this phenomenon called dance; why do we move our body around for no other reason than to move our body around? ‘You’ve been swimming in gravity since the day you were born. Every cell knows where down is. You and the earth.Calling to each other.”
Soufiane Karim Title of the work “Morpho-Logic”
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Synopsis This piece is a solo composed by Soufiane to present some of his research about traditions of marking, traditionnal body paiting in the Pacific. Also inspired by his traveling in Indonesia in 2012, Soufiane's keeping and integrating some skills, rituals and spiritual connexions with his past experiences “Morpho-logic” is a piece composed to show the unfolding life, human being in different states, body and mind directions. Dancing is one of the most beautifullway to connect with the univers, and it creating a powerfull meaning that we can ad to our dance technics...”
Ben Ardley Title of the work Untitled Synopsis This solo piece is presented in the form of contemporary ritual and is part of an ongoing interest in the relationship between oral language, movement and site response. In this piece sound voice and gesture and image will be deconstructed and reconfigured along with bodily derived imagery to create a surrealistic dream-scape of the present moment.
Yoka Jones Title of the work Burnt Treasure Synopsis The girl at the end of my bed records my dreams in the dark. She breaths in colour. She touches the world with shades and lines. She rubs out. She lights fires.
Alan Schacher Title of the work "Share my coffin...." Synopsis I dreamed that I was shown a coffin from the inside, upside down, and it was quite roomy inside so I'd like some friends to join me to while away the time.
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Weizen Ho Title of the work “DE-INCARNATE” Synopsis A performance that delves into the body’s memory of its ancestral template; its inherited tendencies; the imagined landscapes it came from; the relationships it bore…
Gita Kinanthi Title of the work Excelsior Synopsis Manusia ingin menjadi baik dari Keburukannya.
MALANG DANCE Co 2013 Title of the work TARI BICARA PADA PUING Synopsis AKANKAH SEMUA HANYA CATATAN TERTOREH DI DINDING-DINDING JAMAN MENJADI KELAM DAN BERINGSUT PERGI BERHENTI SEBATAS KENANGAN ATAUKAH KITA MASIH BISA BERANDAI-ANDAI BAHKAN KEMBALI MENGGUMULINYA TOPENG ITU MASIH TERONGGOK TERENGAH-ENGAH DISUDUT RUMAH KITA MASIH ADAKAH NAFAS DALAM KETERPURUKAN PUINGNYA
Koreografer : WIN EKRAM Komposer : DENIS SUWARNO, REDY Penari : AMIN KARYANATHA, WIN EKRAM, KIKI DEVI, ASRI MARTINI, RIFKA, AYU SEKAR Pimpinan Produksi : ISANTA Produksi : MALANGDANCE Co 2013
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Jesse Stevens & Dean Petersen (Aus) > Agung Gunawan, RM. Altyanto Henryawan & Bimo Suryojati (Id) Title of the work Shadows on the Wall Synopsis The walls in our lives are often inanimate place holders simply to divide rooms, areas, houses, and laneways. It's not often we think about them until they either fall, or are left standing alone. It is then that we begin to realise what these structures have witnessed and how much they have been a part of our lives. Our memories animate these walls, with events and people of the past, and the lives that have been led alongside them. “Shadows on the Wall” is an experimental collaboration between Australian and Indonesian media artists and dancers to bring these memories to life using robotics, dance, projection, improvisation, and video in an unique way. The Arts Island Festival will be the first public live performance of the piece, following an intensive development and filming in Yogyakarta in early June. The creative team: Cake Industries (Jesse Stevens & Dean Petersen) – Melbourne, Australia Bimo Suryojati – RM Altiyanto Henryawan – Agung Gunawan – Yogyakarta, Indonesia Creative support: Benedictus Dian Wahyu Arjuna, Dhiyan Wahyu Wardhana, James J. Sadara – Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Deasylina da Ary – Pacitan, Indonesia
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I Nyoman Sujana Kenyem Title of the work Perayaan alam
Suklu Title of the work Natah
Yokasara Title of the work 9nomber
Tony Yap & Brendan O’Connor Title of the work Minotaur/Bantengan Series Synopsis Tony and Brendan will continue their investigation into the trance practice of Bantengan of Batu, in collaboaration with Agus Rianto and the local community in Pujon, Malang. Minotaur/Bantengan will draw from eastern and non-eastern traditions of the ecstatic body. Minotaur/Bantengan will be a series of frameworks – labyrinth - for the expression of the force in the unbridled force of the a half-man half-bull creature. The labyrinth is a metaphor for the means of hiding the minotaur.
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Bale Ganjur & BBAS Community
Kethoprak Suryo Budaya
Tayub Traditional Group
Jaranan Traditional trance Dance
Bantengan Agung Joyo Nuswantara 9
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Festival Director
Agung Gunawan Project Director-Bali
I Wayan Sujana Suklu – Bali Indonesia Project Director-Kediri
Iwan Kapit – Kediri Indonesia
Team Works 2013
Project Director-Batu
Ipunk Batu - Batu Indonesia Project Director Trance Carnival-Batu
Agus Bantengan – Batu Indonesia Financial Manager
Deasylina da Ary - Pacitan Indonesia Stage Manager
RM Altiyanto Henryawan - Yogyakarta Indonesia Arts Documentation
Bimo Suryojati - Yogyakarta Indonesia Light Designer
Dian - Yogyakarta Indonesia Hospitality
Deasylina da Ary – Pacitan Indonesia Publication
Gaga - Yogyakarta Indonesia Stage Crew
Anang Setiawan, Johan Adiyatma Baktiar, Anik Puji Rahayu 11
Thanks to: 1.
Semua Seniman Yang Terlibat di The Arts Island Festival 2013
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Batu Belah Arts Space-Indonesia
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Tobong Toneel - Ketoprak suryo budaya-Indonesia
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Bantengan agung Joyo Nuswantara-Indonesia
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Gedung Kesenian Batu-Indonesia
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Mr. Andrew Ching-Malaysia
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Mrs. Jill Morgan-Australia
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Mr. Tony Yap-Australia
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Mrs. Kath Papas-Australia
10. All Team In The Arts Island Festival 2013-Indonesia
Supported by:
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