Biennale Jogja Venue: Taman Budaya Yogyakarta

Front of Biennale Jogja venue at Taman Budaya Yogyakarta

Selamat Datang! Welcome!

Ugo Untoro, Deru, 2013

Samuel Indratma, Pocung, 2013

Restu Ratnaningtyas

Syagini Ratna Wulan, Moving Numbers/2+2=5

Biennale Jogja XII Equator #2 Part 3: Langgeng Art Foundation (LAF) and HonFabLab

Hello everyone! The weather today is a bit unstable or "galau", it was very hot around 12 then suddenly the cumulonimbus appeared. I just laying around my room this Sunday, I don't know what to do. But, then I remember that I have some draft to be finished in my blog. And here I am writing while enjoying the sound of the thunder and the rain falling. What a perfect scene to start this post.

Have you visit Biennale Jogja XII Equator #2? If you live or apparently study here in Jogja or maybe want to have a short trip here, one of the event that you need to write on your agenda is Biennale Jogja art exhibition. Why you should put it on your agenda? Because first is the event held once in a two year. You have to wait until 2015 to see this event. Second, you will presented with a lot of magnificent art works that make you amazed. And last, it will become one of reason to take your closest person for a romantic date (this works for me ;)) I have visited three from five venues of Biennale Jogja. The main venues areTaman Budaya Yogyakarta, Jogja National Museum, SaRang BUILDING, Langgeng Art Foundation and HonFabLab. And for me, only LAF and HonFabLab left to be visited. Here is the post about two last venues of Biennale Jogja XII. Enjoy!

To fulfill my ambition to finish all of venues, I persuade him to took me to Langgeng Art Foundation for another Biennale Jogja hunts! I do not know why I was so eager to finish all the venue of Biennale Jogja, even that the event will last until january next year. I wanted to see all of them immediately, it some kind of addiction I think. It could happen to the fifth semester student like me who kind of bored with the routine, assignments and classes. 

So, we arrived at LAF around noon. LAF is located in Suryodiningratan street 37, it’s near Post-Graduate Campus of ISI Yogyakarta. It’s not that hard to find LAF, because the building is unique and different than any other buildings around it. Actually, we wanted to go there way before there is Biennale Jogja but haven’t got time for that. Finally, I was there! LAF is the fourth venue of Biennale Jogja that I already visited. There are three area of exhibition in LAF, first floor near the cafetaria, the first gallery at the second floor, and the second gallery at the basement. 

R at the first gallery

The backdrop where R posing is one of the art displayed in the first gallery

In the first gallery there are three artist artworks displayed here. You will find a black box here, the box itself really drove our attention. You need to bend a little to get inside this box. I am afraid to enter because all of the box is painted black (honestly, I am afraid of the dark :p) So, He entered the box by himself. 

Nah, for you a locker hunters. In this venue there are some lockers also and the last locker (locker #100) is located in the basement. In the second gallery on the basement, you will find a simulation called "IMMORTAL-The Mind Beyond Self". It is really interesting simulation to try on, but I was afraid to enter the room, because it's all black and there is such kind of machine located in the center of the room. I still want to try it on my next visit to this venue though. Again, he tried the simulation by himself. He said that after he tried the simulation, he felt something strange with his head. We don't know why, but maybe because the simulation itself is about our mind. So, it might be a normal response. You need to try the simulation when you visit LAF.

After I went to LAF, I asked him one more favor. To took me to HonFabLab. HonFabLab is located in Taman Siswa street. There are some lockers here about three or four lockers located in this venue. I think that this lab is cool, and full equipped for people who wants to create their projects using a laser cut or other machine available in this place. I wish I could do my own project in HonFabLab someday. I'm not taking any picture here because, he needed to go to his campus immediately (maybe I will take some photos on my next visit). My visit to HonFabLab completed my Biennale Jogja XII Equator #2 hunts. :) Yay! I think, it's so amazing to complete all the main venue of the exhibition within 3 days only! Bravo for me! :D

This is what I love being in Jogjakarta, there's a lot of exhibitions and events held all year long. Especially Biennale Jogja XII Equator #2, it fulfill my needs. :) I love drawing and painting since I was a kid. I love looking at the great and fascinating display and painting. I may not an expert when it comes to give a review about someone's artwork especially when they are a great artist. But, I always try to appreciate and give my honest opinion. To conclude my hunts in Biennale Jogja XII I want to say "See you on the next Biennale Jogja!" Au Revoir! :)

p.s.
More information, click on Langgeng Art Foundation and HonFabLab
Check on my next post for photos from Biennale Jogja XII main exhibition venue. :)

Biennale Jogja XII Equator #2 Part 2: Morning at the Museum, Afternoon at SaRang BUILDING

Hello everyone! How is your day? How is your life?

Mine is wonderful. I may say it because I feel so blessed and excited those days when I went to an art exhibition. It feels like it fulfill my inner ambition to become an artist (laugh at my self). I love drawing and painting so much, but I love to see someone's art work even more! So, here is the second part of my post about Biennale Jogja event. Enjoy!

Sunday is just another holiday for me as a university student who studies far away from my hometown. At Sunday morning, I need an amusement and an entertainment. After getting some food to eat, I went to Jogja National Museum to visit another venue of Biennale Jogja with my friend. Here, in this second venue that I visited, there are more art work than in TBY. There are three floors of the exhibition in this venue and about 21 artist displayed their art works here.

This is one of the rooms in the first floor. I called it "The green room", is an art work by Eko Nugroho,

an artist from Indonesia. I love the concept of this room, it really describes about our worker in Middle East and how this country works. It such a superb critics. I think "art is always the best way to criticize the government or even our self"

Are you wearing a mask?

Look! Great Quotes!

It takes an hour or more to look around this venue. This is the biggest venue from Biennale Jogja XII. I will shares more photos of this venue on my other post (wait for it :)) Here are some picture I took in JNM.

still figure out what the video try to tell

see how the making of this work in TBY

After we went to Jogja National Museum, we decided to go home. On our way home, my friend May, she accidentally saw the direction to SaRang BUILDING. We never thought that SaRang is really near to my boarding house. We decided to find it and follow the direction. At first we could not find the building, we passed it once. After going around for couple of minutes, we finally found it! The place is AMAZING! I really love it, May also love the place. Green everywhere, it's quite and calm. Perfect place for relaxation I think. :D I want to spend all my afternoon here. Such a wonderful place. You need to visit it, really recommended place, especially when there is an art exhibition held here.

Inside a locker number 089 in SaRang BUILDING

That's all about my Sunday at Jogja National Museum and SaRang BUILDING. I will post more photos about both venues later. See you on another Biennale Jogja XII venues! Au revoir!

After a Saturday Night at Biennale Jogja: Moving Numbers/2+2=5

Okay, this is a true story of someone who got struck by an art work. It is not a fairy tale, it just me and my mind that went along with someone's art work. After I went to Biennale Jogja venue in TBY, I stuck in the moment of time and space. I got caught by the Moving Numbers/2+2=5, an art work by Syagini Ratna Wulan from Indonesia, I keep thinking all night long about it even until the next morning. It wakes the curiosity inside me to complete all the search of the locker. Actually not only me, but also my friends. :)

Funny thing is that, at first my friend and I not really interest with those lockers stacked onto one another. But, at locker number 004, my friend took the paper and we read it unsatisfied being. After we read the paper of that locker, one of my friends said "there's nothing in this locker? It just an empty locker". I smiled and replied her "see, we're not satisfied" and the three of us laughed. After that satyr moment, we really compelled to find another lockers and look what inside them.

Locker #004

It is such a brilliant art work, it let the audience go with its flow. It makes me unite with her work. This remind me of a book by Arief Budiman about how people meet with the art work of an artist, the book is about how Chairil Anwar poets meet with its reader. How we connect with someone else point of view about the world has it’s own mysterious mechanism. I think about how brilliant the idea and the essence of the work itself. How the artist could think and make something like that? How the mechanism of her mind that could create such an art work? How she sees the world around her? Those kinds of question are running all around my head.

I always have this believe that “an artist see the world differently, they have a special sights, they gifted” But, how their special sights meet and collide with the audience is something even greater. This is my personal opinion though. I may not a gifted audience but I love art after all. :)

Papers from the lockers. Look! How many papers I brought :D

p.s.
For those who haven’t go to Biennale Jogja. Go now! (kidding! It’s midnight already)

Biennale Jogja XII Equator #2 Part 1 : A Saturday Night with Biennale Jogja

Alright, so this is a late post for what I had been doing with my friends on last Saturday night. There is this event for fine arts artist from Indonesia and also abroad, this year from Arabian Peninsula countries, to show their work, their art pieces. The event is called Biennale Jogja XII Equator #2. The event started from November 16 2013 until January  6 2014. Here are the poster of Biennale Jogja.

This is the first time I visited the event. I don't know why but I feel so excited! I went to Taman Budaya Yogyakarta around 7 p.m. with some of  my friends. We are amazed by the entrance wall of Biennale Jogja venue in concert hall ground floor of TBY. Who doesn't love a big wall with an interesting drawing. You know exactly what happened after that, say CHEESE!. :D

Me on the entrance wall, WELCOME TO THE AIRPORT OF LOVE

After being so narcissist, we went inside and fill the guest book. There is a guide book available in the reception desk, you could bought it just only 25,000 rupiah. In this venue there are some art work displayed attractively. The plants which planted in the trunk of banana trees, a horse shoes in the ceilings. About the horse shoes, we looked for a while to determine which direction they ran to, we thought they ran in a horse race or something like that. 

You could find a video in one of the corner of this venue. The video is about the making of an art work by Egyptian artist (find the art work at Jogja National Museum), you could sit and watch the video. On the left wall there is this photo, cool one! While on the right side of the wall there is a fine art work catalogs from many exhibition done in the Arab also in other countries.

the photo

One of  the catalog, this is my friend's favorite

You could find some lockers, an art work by Indonesian artist called Moving Numbers/2+2=5. There are only some of the lockers set in TBY, the rest is spread in other main venue of Biennale Jogja. So you should visit all the venue to finish the locker quest. :) After looking around for almost an hour, we decided to grab some food near alun-alun. That's the end of our Saturday night at Biennale Jogja. Thanks for visiting my blog. See you on other venues! :) Au revoir!

Biennale Jogja Brochure

p.s.
If you want to know more detail about the event check on this link BiennaleJogja

I will add more photos from this venue on another post.