Makeshift Manifests: Collaborative Curatorial Project on Image and Self-Narrative

• Main Author: ARI RESPATI (NIM : 27015008), YACOBUS
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/31685
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Advancements in the distribution of information, and its availability, have <br /> <br /> rendered our experience of the everyday increasingly imaginary. Within its <br /> <br /> breadth, a new subjectivity is generated along with a continued discourse of the <br /> <br /> self. The construct of the self-narrative in an always reiterating world of <br /> <br /> references have affected emerging artists of the mid 2010s, who are brought up in <br /> <br /> the information age. <br /> <br /> Through 8 artists, the project tries to put a frame on how the fragments of the selfnarrative <br /> <br /> exists through imaginary properties in collecting and appropriating <br /> <br /> image. How is its dissemination? How can the notion of the subject be defined <br /> <br /> within artists' collection of images? And how can it be represented as a <br /> <br /> collaborative project on mapping its manifestations? <br /> <br /> This project frames the whole of exhibition as artistic medium, with artists and <br /> <br /> curator working closely in generating ideas and contributing equally to exhibition <br /> <br /> form. Installation of the exhibition is done in Studio Batur, an emerging <br /> <br /> alternative space. The project works with 8 emerging artists, all based and <br /> <br /> working in Bandung. Curatorial dialog of the exhibition puts image and signs to <br /> <br /> the fore, as manifests of themes. Discussions are generated through a collective <br /> <br /> process of accumulating and collecting images and texts from the everyday, as a <br /> <br /> process of meandering between hoard of exposures, references, and preferences. <br /> <br /> Presentation of the exhibition installs both individual works and hoard of objects; <br /> <br /> which corresponds with saturated images and overexposure of the everyday. It is <br /> <br /> put forward as a subversive notion on the saturation itself; in existing within a <br /> <br /> gap, distorted, fragmented, and imagined in multiplicities. The exhibition is <br /> <br /> accompanied by exhibition texts that are handed out to the audience, in form of <br /> <br /> index cards. The cards contain annotations, fragment of ideas of the works and the <br /> <br /> theme, quotes, sketches, which mirrors exhibition and artistic statements. The <br /> <br /> cards act as guides for the audience, to put them in a reader-in-text scenario.