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 non-

western 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 ChingFestival 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.

Agung GunawanFounder &Director

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.

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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 Australia-

Indonesia 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 workMeeting (Pertemuan)

SynopsisMeeting a self.Meeting an other.Meeting a place.Where is the place inside us where we meet?

Soufiane Karim

Title of the work“Morpho-Logic”

SynopsisThis 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...”

Nicky Marr

Title of the workLittle 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.”

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Ben Ardley

Title of the workUntitled

SynopsisThis 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 workBurnt Treasure

SynopsisThe 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...."

SynopsisI 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”

SynopsisA 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…

MALANG DANCE Co 2013

Title of the workTARI BICARA PADA PUING

SynopsisAKANKAH SEMUA HANYA CATATANTERTOREH DI DINDING-DINDING JAMANMENJADI KELAM DAN BERINGSUT PERGIBERHENTI SEBATAS KENANGANATAUKAH KITA MASIH BISA BERANDAI-ANDAIBAHKAN KEMBALI MENGGUMULINYA

TOPENG ITU MASIH TERONGGOK TERENGAH-ENGAHDISUDUT RUMAH KITAMASIH ADAKAH NAFAS DALAM KETERPURUKAN PUINGNYA

Koreografer : WIN EKRAMKomposer : DENIS SUWARNO, REDYPenari : AMIN KARYANATHA, WIN EKRAM, KIKI DEVI, ASRI MARTINI, RIFKA, AYU SEKARPimpinan Produksi : ISANTAProduksi : MALANGDANCE Co 2013

Gita Kinanthi

Title of the workExcelsior

SynopsisManusia ingin menjadi baik dari Keburukannya.

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Jesse Stevens & Dean Petersen (Aus)>Agung Gunawan, RM. Altyanto Henryawan & Bimo Suryojati (Id)

Title of the workShadows on the Wall

SynopsisThe 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 workPerayaan alam

Suklu

Title of the workNatah

Yokasara

Title of the work9nomber

Tony Yap & Brendan O’Connor

Title of the workMinotaur/Bantengan Series

SynopsisTony 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

TayubTraditional Group

JarananTraditional trance Dance

Bantengan Agung Joyo Nuswantara

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Festival Director

Agung Gunawan

Project Director-Bali

I Wayan Sujana Suklu – Bali Indonesia

Project Director-Kediri

Iwan Kapit – Kediri Indonesia

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

Team Works 2013

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Supported by:

1. Semua Seniman Yang Terlibat di The Arts Island Festival 2013

2. Batu Belah Arts Space-Indonesia

3. Tobong Toneel - Ketoprak suryo budaya-Indonesia

4. Bantengan agung Joyo Nuswantara-Indonesia

5. Gedung Kesenian Batu-Indonesia

6. Mr. Andrew Ching-Malaysia

7. Mrs. Jill Morgan-Australia

8. Mr. Tony Yap-Australia

9. Mrs. Kath Papas-Australia

10. All Team In The Arts Island Festival 2013-Indonesia

Thanks to:

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