kristoffer ardeña roma arts artist-in-residency may 2013
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Bandung, Indonesia, 9 – 23 May 2013 Kristoffer Ardeña Roma Arts artist-in-residency In collaboration with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Irfan Hendrian Studio, Oma Anna Handwork, and Visual Arts Study Program at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, ITBTRANSCRIPT
Bandung, Indonesia, 9 – 23 May 2013
Kristoffer Ardeña
Roma Arts artist-in-residency
In collaboration with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Irfan Hendrian Studio, Oma Anna
Handwork, and Visual Arts Study Program at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design,
ITB
Roma Arts artist-in-resident Kristoffer Ardeña (1976, Dumaguete) lives and works in
Madrid/Spain and Manila/Philippines. He has created individual projects in Museo
Carrillo Gil and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo del UNAM, both in
Mexico, Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila
(Philippines), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro
de Arte Contemporáneo in Murcia, Spain. He has also participated in various
collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou
Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona
and La Casa Encendida in Madrid (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain
(Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico)
and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia).
Public Talk
Visual Arts Study Program at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, ITB
15 May, 2pm
For this talk at the Intermedia Studio, Kristoffer Ardeña focused on what he makes,
how he makes his artworks and how he presents his work (the subsequent discussion
was moderated by Roy Voragen). We didn’t discuss the meaning of his work,
students can decide that for themselves, but during the discussion it became clear that
there is strong correlation between his mobility and the lightness of his work.
Dear Curator Curate Me: Chabib Duta Hapsoro and Rizki Lazuardi
In collaboration with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space
19 May – 8 June 2013
The opening was officiated by senior video artist Krisna Murti.
For the project Dear Curator Curate Me, Kristoffer Ardeña selected 15 videos and
this selection travels around the world, each place where this selection makes a stop a
curator is invited to develop a discourse on these videos. Dear Curator Curate Me at
Selasar Sunaryo Art Space is this project’s debut, which will continue in the
Philippines, Spain, Peru, etc. This project reverses the roles of the artist and the
curator in a witty manner by emphasizing the curatorial essay. This traveling project
aims to show how in different contexts around the globe curators can respond to the
same collection of videos and slowly this project will turn into an archive of a
curatorial discourse with its many contrasting voices. For Selasar Sunaryo Art Space,
Chabib Duta Hapsoro and Rizki Lazuardi were invited to respond to the selection of
videos by writing each an essay. They also decided to exhibit the videos (the making
of an exhibition is not a requirement of this project). The opening was well attended
and the subsequent discussion with the two curators and artist (and moderated by Roy
Voragen) was lively, focusing on the artist-curator relationships.
Rizki Lazuardi decided to create an exhibition within an exhibition titled Ghost (he
designed the poster; see the essays by the curators for their arguments for this).
The essays by the two curators were collected in a limited edition hand-made booklet.
The booklet was designed by Irfan Hendrian (he also designed the poster for the talk
at ITB) and hand-made by Oma Anna. The booklet can be downloaded here:
http://bit.ly/11JCHPi
For more information:
Kristoffer Ardeña: http://www.ardena.info/
Dear Curator Curate Me: http://www.dearcuratorcurateme.info/
ITB: http://www.itb.ac.id/
Selasar Sunaryo Art Space: http://www.selasarsunaryo.com
Irfan Hendrian: http://regmart.net/
Oma Anna: http://www.omaanna.com
Roma Arts: http://fatumbrutum.blogspot.com
Photos of the discussion at ITB: http://bit.ly/ZbkOFo
Short video of the printing of the booklet cover: http://on.fb.me/111bktM
Photos of the making of the booklet at Oma Anna: http://bit.ly/11g4jse
Photos of the opening at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space: http://on.fb.me/13ThhNr
Photos of the discussion at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space: http://on.fb.me/11nukHF
On twitter: #dearcuratorcurateme
Press coverage
http://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/node/235681
http://koran.tempo.co/konten/2013/05/23/310830/Menggugat-Kuasa-Kurator-Seni
Roma Arts, founded in 2011, promotes passionate, ambitious and focused ways of
producing, presenting, experiencing, and writing about the diverse forms of arts.
Roma Arts gives keen attention to art practices, forms of presentation, experiencing
the arts, and discourses on art. In 2012, Roma Arts iniated a residency program to
foster creative person-to-person contacts. And in 2013, Roma Arts started the website
Contemporary Arts Bandung (www.contemporaryartsbandung.com).
– Roy Voragen (founder Roma Arts and coordinator Dear Curator Curate Me in
Indonesia)