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Visiting Artists
Deni Oseng
The NSW North Coast Branch and Byron Gamelan Ensemble are very pleased to invite Deni Oseng from Krakatau to return to the North Coast region in 2001 in order to re-establish the musical relationships which he formed during his residency last year. While in Australia he will be collaborating with local Australian, Indonesian and Aboriginal muscians, visiting schools and contributing to the development of gamelan groups in the North Coast and surrounding regions. Gamelan musicians who worked with Oseng last year are looking forward to playing amd creating new compositions under Oseng's guidance. If you would like to invite Oseng to visit your group, school or community please phone (02) 66857789.
Gamelan Girls in Bandung
Kym Hall and Emma Andrews are two young Australian women who are well known as dedicated gamelan musicians and students of kendang. Kym and Emma are currently based in Bandung on Beasiswa Scholarships and undertaking post-graduate studies in Indonesian music at STSI in Bandung. Kym Hall, gamelan composer, teacher and musician from Gamelan Suara Naga, Armidale and Byron Gamelan is studying gamelan, composition, kendang and suling (bamboo flute) among other things. While Emma, who has managed to be an active member of both Gamelan Suara Naga, Armidale and Gamelan Giri Jaya,Toowoomba for some years, is also undertaking private tuition in kecapi as well.
Together with a Hawaiian friend, Suzanne, the girls have formed the first female rampak kendang group under the guidance of Wahyu Roche from Warogus, and have performed at several important cultural events in Bandung. Kym and Emma have become well-known around Bandung music circles getting to know many up-and-coming and well-established musicians and generally being wonderful cultural ambassadors for Australia. Salam Hangat Kym and Emma, and thanks for your friendship!
Contact:kymbo1974@yahoo.com.au
emmajandrews@hotmail.com
Australia Indonesia Poetry Exchange
Seven Indonesian poets are planning to visit Sydney during August and are interested in participating in poetry and cultural exchange activities with Australian poets, students, and the wider community. The poets are Daery Viddy AD, Hasan Bisri BFC, Irwan Kelana, Adhie Massardi, Inayah Wulandari, Adam A Chevny and Fatin Hamama.
Daery Viddy, the initiator of this project, is an Indonesian poet who has previously visited Brisbane on a similar poets' exchange project and is actively participating in poetry exchange activities throughout ASEAN. Viddy published his solo anthology "South Bank and Air Mata" - "South Bank and Tears" in 1996 which includes wonderful impressions of his visit to Australia. Viddy is also interested in teaching classes in Wayang painting. A relationship with AIAA was established through AIAA participation in penyair@egroups.com - a very active mailing list of Indonesian poets, which resulted in Viddy and other poets contributing to Inspirasi Magazine.
AIAA has been seeking support for this project and have so far had positive responses from NSW University, Sydney University, Sydney Writer's Centre and other Sydney groups. If you have ideas regarding poetry exchange or would like to support this project by helping to plan activities or provide biletting for the poets while they are in Sydney, please contact: Jeni at indoarts@dingoblue.net.au
Asialink Residencies 2002
Sigit Pius and Bintang Hanggon
Performing Arts
Sigit Pius and Bintang Hanggon, from Yogyakarta, are artists working in the area of installation, performance, multimedia and animation. They have collaborated in multi-media and video projects and, with other artists, published an alternative comic Core comic and worked with geber; ModusOperandi and Musik elektronic Mencari Harmoni. Sigit Pius has also worked with theater Utan Kayu and choreographer Restu Iman sari and participated in the Makasar Art Forum. Recently they worked together with Geber: ModisOperandi, creating a performance/installation called 'Hole' at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta. The two will collaborate again as artists in residence with the Melbourne Fringe Festival, August-September 2001.
Mitzi Zaphir
Management
Mitzi Zaphir has worked extensively in theatre company management, most recently as general manager of the Australian Theatre for young people. Zaphir is currently a project co-ordinater in cultural affairs with the City of Sydney organising large scale cultural events. She will be based at the Keloola Foundation in Solo, Central java where she will assist with a number of projects including workshops and briefings for Indonesian arts managers seconded to Australia, and conduct research into management options for traditional arts in Indonesia.
Julie Janson
Literature
Julie Janson writes plays that have an indiginous and an inter-cultural focus.Recent works include Black Mary, about an Aboriginal women outlaw, for the Olympic 'Festival of the Dreaming' and Lotus War about a Vietnamese warrior women written for the Asian Arts Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.In Indonesia she will work on her new play, Arafura, set on an Island in the Arafura Sea.It traces stories that have developed along the trade winds from Makassar in Sulawesi to Northern Australia.Janson will research tales of the Makassan traders and work with the National Aboriginaland Islander Dance Academy in collaboration with Indiginous Australian Artists from the Torres straight Islands.
Dorothea Rosa Herliany
Dorothea Rosa Herliany is a young and exciting member of the new generation of Indonesian writers. Born in Magelang, central Java, in 1962, she is a graduate of Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta. Dorothea writes both short stories and poetry. Her work boldly and uncompromisingly explores the tensions arising from conventional patriarchal expectations towards women in a rapidly changing Indonesia.
Cindy South Czabania
Visual Arts/Crafts
Cindy South Czabania lives and works in Adelaide.She began woodcarving seven years ago in order to expand her sculpture into the area of puppetry.She also works in textile design, figurative sculpture and jewellery.She was awarded The Art and Craft Award from The Commonwealth Foundation, UK in 1997.Last year Czabania exibited puppets in both Bali and Java, and in June 2001 she will return to Indonesia to conduct puppetry workshops and performances with local artists and children at the Benda Gallery, Yogyakarta, in collaboration with the Cemeti foundation.