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Keliling Keliling
Behind The Shadow
Workshop on Javanese Shadow Puppet Manipulation
by
Dr. Joko Susilo
Visiting Indonesian shadow puppeteer and gamelan musician
How does a shadow come to life? At the workshop Joko Susilo will introduce participants to the world of Javanese shadow puppets and disclose the secrets that make giants, kings, princess and clowns into real characters on the screen. It will be a journey to discover universal principles applicable to any genre of puppetry: a unique opportunity to enrich your creativity.
Date: Sat 15th Sun 16th November 2003
Time: 10am - 4pm
Place: is theatre ltd 77 Salamanca Place Hobart
Cost: $ 110
Open to performers, visual artists and teachers and students of Indonesian.
For further information please contact Carmencita Palermo
Email: cpalermo@postoffice.utas.edu.au Tel: 03 6324 3046
A special thanks to Terrapin Theatre, Salamanca Place Hobart
JOKO SUSILO
Visiting Indonesian Musician and Puppeteer at the University of Tasmania
August - November 2003
Dr Joko Susilo, a renowned Javanese shadow puppeteer and gamelan master will be in Launceston for approximately three months, starting the week of 25 August. He will be:
· working with students of performing arts at the University of Tasmania on an experimental theatre performance using shadow puppet techniques
· providing training in gamelan music to players of the Launceston gamelan orchestra
· presenting performances of traditional shadow puppet theatre, to be accompanied by the gamelan.
Dr Susilo has had extensive overseas experience, in New Zealand (where he obtained his PhD degree) in Scotland, Europe and the United States. He is a skilled teacher as well as performer, and very used to conducting workshops in gamelan and shadow puppetry with all kinds of groups. He is keen to hold such workshops in Launceston, for school groups, those with a special interest in music and the arts, and members of the community.
The Learning Program includes:
Gamelan Orchestra Workshops
Puppetry Workshops
Masterclasses
Bookings are essential for all workshops.
For information on workshop fees, times or other enquiries within Tasmania, please contact:
The Education Section, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Phone: 63233 777 or email: education@qvmag.tas.gov.au
For general information on Dr Susilo's visit and on workshops outside the State, please contact:
Prof Barbara Hatley, School of Asian Languages and by email barbara.hatley@utas.edu.au
Carmencita Palermo: cpalermo@postoffice.utas.edu.au
Jumaadi awarded "Highly Commended" Art on the Rocks
During the year, AIAA member Adi Jumaadi was awared the "HighlyCcommended" prize in
Art on the
Rocks with his paintings titled "Reflections I and II" depicting
scenes
around Sydney Harbour interspersed with scenes drawing on Australia's
past.
The works were exhibited at the ASN Gallery, 1-3 Hickson Road, The Rocks
during June 2003.
Jumaadi also held a solo exhibition of his abstract and figurative work
at
the Bondi Pavilion Gallery during June and July. One of Adi’s latest projects
has been participating in a group exhibition at Mary Place Gallery which opened on Tuesday 16 September until September
28. Congratulations Adi!
More information and paintings on the gallery website at
www.maryplacegallery.com.au
- then click on Spring 2003 menu.
or contact Adi at jumaadi@hotmail.com
or 02 9389 7038.
New Film Festival
Arts Access is seeking interested filmmakers to contribute ideas to
a new
film festival to be held in 2004 around themes of disability and
"otherness". You can register your interest by filling out
a questionnaire.
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.artsaccess.com.au/news/index.cfm?id=230
UNPOPULAR CULTURE - THE 2004 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
The 2004 Next Wave Festival will be held from 18th - 30th May 2004.
Organisers are seeking innovative and engaging takes on the notion of
unpopular culture from a variety of artforms including music, visual
art,
theatre, dance, performance, text and new media.
MORE INFORMATION: http:// www.nextwave.org.au
Asia and Pacific Writers Network
An initiative of the Melbourne PEN Centre, supported by the Australian
PEN
Centres in partnership with Asialink. Supported by the Myer Foundation.
Melbourne PEN Centre, supported by the Australian PEN Centres, in
partnership with Asialink, a non-government organization based at the
University of Melbourne, is researching and developing an Asia and Pacific
Writers Network, as a functioning self-sustaining network of individuals,
organizations and institutions.
As a PEN initiative we aim; to promote friendship and intellectual
co-operation among writers everywhere, to fight for freedom of speech,
work
for good understanding and respect between nations and to champion the
ideal of one humanity living in peace in one world.
The Asia and Pacific Writers Network aims to: Extend the network of
writers, individuals and organizations that work with language and stories,
in all their forms; Increase understanding of, and dialogue about, the
current issues, writing and cultures in the region; Further the aims
of
PEN; Support each other in the promotion and preservation of the regions
literatures; Share and develop strategies and methods of contending
with
the issues, obstacles, and difficulties that face writers and their
communities; Provide opportunities for Network members to develop joint
projects; Facilitate greater public awareness of writing and issues
of the
region.
This will occur in 3 stages:
Stage 1: Network the Networks create a database accessible to all
participants
Stage 2: Communicate - develop the most accessible system for participants
to communicate
Stage 3: Conference/s - opportunities to meet, share, discuss, face
to
face.
We need your input and participation to create the network. Currently
we
are seeking writers, academics, or organizations that are interested
in
participating in the Network. We are establishing a database
that will be accessible to all participants, and we need your permission
for you to be included. If you are interested in participating in the
Network, please contact us. We would also appreciate if you would promote
the Network via your contacts and networks.
We are also investigating the best form of communication. Many people
have
internet access, so one mode will be an email discussion list. We are
aware
that many people do not have access, so we will also create a mail-based
system, which will include a Newsletter, and when you send in your
comments,
suggestions, ideas, etc, these will be added to the email discussion.
Once
the communication systems have been established we will further develop
the
aims of the network, and facilitate discussion on pertinent issues and
strategies. The long term aim is for the Network to meet, in a biennial
Conference.
Please contact us with your following details: Name; writer/academic;
organization (if applicable); contact details; country; website (if
applicable). You may also like to add what issues and topics you would
like
to see discussed. If you do not have internet access, what the best
mode of
communication is. Eg fax, post etc
If you are interested in participating, please contact: berni m janssen,
Postal: The Asialink Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville.
Victoria. 3010. Australia.
Ph: 61 3 8344 4800 Fax: 61 3 9347 1768 Email: bmj@net2000.com.au
Scattered Dust
"The Scattered Dust of Love" by well-known Indonesian writer
K M Achdiat,
tranlated into English by Pamela Allen, published by the Australia
Indonesia Association (ACT), now at special price of $17 (includes postage
within Australia). Send your $17 to 31 Blackbutt Street, Lyneham ACT
2602 -
books will be sent by return of post. Enquiries email to:
carrington@netspeed.com.au
Performance Club in Jogja
at Cemeti Art Foundation
Jl. Patehan Tengah 37
Yogyakarta, Indonesia 55133
Please permit us to introduce ourselves. We are a group of young people
joined together as an umbrella organization called: Performance Club.
Performance Club is founded by a group of young people living in Yogyakarta
who already feel in touch with the art world, (visual, music, theater
and
dance) and who possess a need for sharing their restlessness concerning
their artistic process.
Coming from many different perspectives, (culture, history, form and artistic experience) our wish from the beginning was to understand the complications of performance and to read the possibilities of its promotion. Performance Club hopes to have a productive space for anyone who wants to learn and to create performance art. Several ideas for activities planned by Performance Club are as follows:
Performance Club Launching
Member Recruitment
Performance Workshop
Stocking a library and reference materials concerning performance and
other
supporting information
Create a network between local as well as international performers.
Carry out research and documentation of performance
Have public discussions about performance
Create a performance festival
For the first step, this time we created a performance for the launching of the club, which was held during July. In combination with this event, we also held a recruitment/ sign up drive for new members to Performance Club.
Description of the Event:
The concept for this inaugural work is the club's reflection of the
social
situation facing the people of Indonesia at this time. Our society consists
of people who wear their faces like they put on a uniform, who wear
their
face because they are obliged to have one. Faces are put on because
we need
an identity, we need to be known as someone. For the moment, we slip
out of
our identity as ourselves and our problems. Changing social politics
is
only to change the shape and composition of the problem without changing
the substance, let alone the solution. We are all smeared with the same
problems, the same confusions. We only change expression, but who is
truly
behind that (decaying) face? We do not know. As long as we live, we
can
only draw our face on the ceiling, and after we're bored and hating
ourselves we kill ourselves with guns we borrow from outside the country.
Visualize people in costumes of various professions/functions wandering
around then taking turns sticking their bodies up against a wall. From
a
designated point, someone sprays paint on the wall and the person who
has
been sprayed leaves their body-shape on the wall. Someone makes a contour
of the body print with a marker pen. This continues until the wall is
full
of the bodies left behind by their owners. After that, the people, the
owners of those bodies, shoot their own body with a gun. Finish.
Where: Cemeti Art Foundation
Jl. Patehan Tengah 37
Yogyakarta 55133
Indonesia
Tel/Fax: (0274) 375-247, 372-095
email:artsc@indosat.net.id
homepage:www.cemetiartfoundation.org
For More Information Contact:
Naomi: HP: 0811259109
Iwan: 08122767607
Ery: 0817262404
performanceklub@yahoo.com
Performance Club Coordinator: Iwan Wijono
Secretary: Erythrina Baskorowati
Treasurer: Ozy Humas: Naomi Srikandi