Check this out...!!!!!! Strait Times Article 25.02.2011: Night at the NUS Museum

Check This Out !!!! Article on Cigondewah on 22 Feb 2011 @ m.kompas.com

Bau Sampah di Singapura
Seniman Tisna Sanjaya (51) membawa tiga kontainer sampah dari Cigondewah, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat, ke Singapura. Sampah plastik, kandang burung bekas, dan air limbah pabrik tekstil dari Sungai Cigondewah akan ia rangkai menjadi karya seni berbalut kritik tajam di National University of Singapore, 17 Februari-30 Maret 2011......read entire article in m.kompas.com

Check This Out !!!! Article on Cigondewah on 22 Feb 2011 @ cerwis.us.com

Isu Sosial dan Manifesto Medan Seni Rupa

.Seni rupa Indonesia kini telah memiliki infrastruktur yang cukup memadai. Seniman, kurator, kritikus, institusi pendidikan, galeri, kolektor, dan balai lelang, semua ada di negeri ini. Belum lagi banyaknya event yang diikuti praktisi seni Indonesia dalam skala Internasional. Semua itu menandakan bahwa Indonesia telah memiliki medan seni (artworld) yang mapan.....read the entire article on cerwis.us.com

Tisna Sanjaya’s Cigondewah reviewed by documentations.blogspot on 17.02.2011

"Where a clean river once flowed, it is now filled with waste. Clear water has now been replaced with a rainbow of colours reminiscent of the moi indie paintings - red, yellow, green, brown, and sometimes even black, depending on the toxic discharge from the factories upstream." (Artist's statement)

Indonesian artist Tisna Sanjaya purchased a plot of land in his hometown Cigondewah which had been adversely affected by rapid industrialisation and turned into a plastic waste dump, and built the Cigondewah Cultural Centre over it. The work of the centre is to rejuvenate the area and community, providing spaces for pigeon lovers to have races, football fields, and to engage and solve the environmental problems in Cigondewah. By contexualising social action as art, this erosion between "art" and "life" is posited as a metaphor for the need for the erosion of the boundaries between disclipines, ownership of works (art market), and local bureaucracies/social networks - in order to get things done..... read entire article in documentations.blogspot.com

Cigondewah: An Art Project by Tisna Sanjaya

[Image: Gallery impression, Cigondewah: An Art Project by Tisna Sanjaya, NUS Museum, 2011]

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Date: 17 Feb – 3 June 2011 

Venue: NX Gallery, NUS Museum

Urban growth, industrial expansion, and their impact on the environment is a common experience often faced by smaller village communities occupying city peripheries, including Cigondewah, a village south of Bandung, Indonesia. Cigondewah: An Art Project by Tisna Sanjaya centres on the complex relationships between artist, his environment and his public. Underlying this complexity is the role of artist in sustaining a practice that is immersed into the potentials and predicaments of place and community; economic and political ecology that constrains, mediates or enables actions; the question of communal agency and artistic goals; and the place of the art market within a pragmatic social cause. Under these conditions, how is art practice reconstituted? For whom? To what productive outcomes and what limits?

P.S. See a Video of Cigondewah and its resilient community interacting with Bandung college students posted on YouTube June 2011.

Curator: Karen Lim
Artist: Tisna Sanjaya
                     
Click here for the exhibition brochure in PDF format.
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