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Artists' Residencies in Indonesia 2005

Asialink's Residency Program offers residencies in Visual Arts and Crafts Performing Arts, Arts Management and Literature.

Residencies are usually of three to four months duration and each residency offers a specified amount of funding and initial contacts. Artists are generally attached to a host institution and are expected to pursue their own work as well as participate in the life of the organisation and community. This includes giving workshops and public lectures. Every residency is different and negotiated individually.

Asialink Residencies have taken place in China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, The Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Host countries may vary from year to year and for each art form. Host institutions may specify a preference in this area.

Residencies are open to all visual and performing artists, writers and arts managers who are Australia citizens or have permanent residency status in Australia and who have at least three years experience in their field.

Australians who received Residencies in Indonesia for 2005 are:

Visual Arts

Danius Kesminas

Danius Kesminas' practice is conceptual, project-based and highly collaborative. The work is non-media specific and he engages the traditional disciplines of sculpture, painting and print making, together with video, film, installation, architectural and site-based interventions, performance and the application of incendiary devices. For over a decade he has investigated the interface between art and music. In 1998 he co-formed the art/music collective Slave Pianos, a group devoted to the collection, analysis and performance of sound work by visual artists. Slave Pianos have presented exhibitions and performances in New York, Los Angeles, Kassel, Aachen, Edinburgh, and throughout Australasia. Kesminas has also taught in various tertiary faculties in the areas of painting, sculpture, architecture and landscape architecture, and in 2002-3 he was the Australian artist-in-residence at the K¸nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. In Indonesia, Kesminas proposes to work collaboratively on an activity that brings the particularities of Javanese culture to bear upon the discourse and history of contemporary Western art theory.

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia-Indonesia Institute.

Performing Arts

Joanna Dudley

Singer, musician, director and performer, Joanna Dudley, studied music at both the Adelaide and Sweelink (Amsterdam) conservatoriums. She also studied traditional Japanese flutes in Tokyo. Based in Berlin and Adelaide Joanna works at the Schaubuhne Theatre on projects including her solo show and music theatre pieces Toy Instruments and Colours May Fade, 2004 set in a room turned at a 90 degree angle. Other music theatre works created by Dudley and her Adelaide based company, Maximum Legroom have been performed at the Adelaide
Festival and the Sydney Opera House. During her residency in Indonesia she plans to work with the Solo College of the Arts, Java to study the various singing styles of the wayang kulit, to learn the instruments of the gamelan as well as to study Javanese dance techniques from wayang orang and wayang topeng theatre. She aims to compose, in collaboration with Javanese musicians, a song cycle for voice and the instruments of the gamelan.

Supported by Arts SA and the Australia-Indonesia Institute.

Literature

Andy Fuller

Andy Fuller is an Indonesia scholar, translator and author of short fiction, essays and poetry. He will use his residency at the Lontar Foundation in Jakarta to work on editing, compiling and translating works of contemporary Indonesian short fiction for The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Short Fiction. The anthology aims to provide students and general readers access to modern Indonesian cultural and philosophical thought, and to complement Australia's increasing understanding of Indonesian politics and Islamic thought. Throughout his residency Fuller also intends to pursue his own writings; in particular further work on the presence of post-modern literary features in the fiction of internationally respected author Seno Gumira Ajidarma.

Supported by the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the Australia Council.

Arts Management

Rob Finlayson

Rob Finlayson works as an arts administrator, writer and community cultural development practitioner. He has led the Western Australia State Literature Centre Inc, worked in local government as an arts officer and community development officer and been writer-in-community with two palliative care services, amongst others. He has had published and performed his prose poetry and short fiction, edited theses and government reports, written science and environmental articles, ghost-written a biography, designed books and magazines and taught creative writing at Edith Cowan University. While at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, he plans to work with the organisers to implement best practice for an international writers' festival, liaise with Australian, Indonesian and international writers, publishers and related organisations and investigate
publishing opportunities for the participants.

Malcolm Smith

Malcolm Smith is currently Program Manager at 24HR ART, the Northern Territory Center for Contemporary Art. In 2004 he organised Liquid Space, a series of discussions looking at critical trends in net-based art and in 2005 he has curated The Box Set for 24HR ART's window gallery. Smith is an active committee member of DVAA, an artist run [initiative based in Darwin, and a regular contributor to critical debates about contemporary art in the Northern Territory. Smith completed a BA( Communications ) at the University of Technology, Sydney and he is also a practicing artist, working mainly in video. In Indonesia, Smith will work with Ruang Rupa in Jakarta and Jejaring Artnetworkers in Bandung, both of which are artist run organizsations that work primarily with new technologies and video.