Website: ketopraktobong.com
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- Peluncuran Proyek/Project Launch: 22 December 2012, 19.00 at Ketoprak Tobong
- Work in Progress! (Wips!) Talk: 24 December 2012, 17.00 at iCAN
- Pembukaan Pameran/Exhibition Opening: 28 December 2012, 19.00 at iCAN
Pameran berlangsung hingga/exhibition will run until 22 January 2013. - Forum Ketoprak: 27 December 2012, 17.00 at iCAN
- Artist Talk: 29 December 2012, 17.00 at iCAN
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Project Tobong adalah kolaborasi antara seniman Inggris Helen Marshall dan seniman Indonesia Risang Yuwono yang diorganisir oleh Indonesia Contemporary Art Network (iCAN), Yogyakarta. Ini adalah proyek seni berbasis penelitian bersama Ketoprak Tobong Kelana Bakti Budaya, salah satu kelompok ketoprak tobong terakhir yang tersisa di Yogyakarta, Jawa, Indonesia. Ketoprak adalah teater tradisional Jawa, dengan dialog, monolog dan musik. Tobong adalah bangunan bambu, biasanya terdiri dari panggung, tempat tinggal dan tempat untuk penonton. Seni pertunjukan tradisional seperti ketoprak tobong semakin terpinggirkan dalam budaya kontemporer Indonesia. Kurangnya dukungan pemerintah dan serbuan budaya kota modern membuat cara hidup mereka semakin terancam.
Proyek ini akan mendokumentasikan kehidupan komunitas ini, di tempat mereka tinggal di pinggiran kota Yogyakarta, melalui residensi intensif bersama mereka. Proyek ini akan membangun arsip komunitas, mengatur program interaksi dan intervensi dengan membawa penonton baru. Proyek ini juga akan melakukan perbaikan dan membangun ruang multifungsi (pendapa) di lokasi tobong, dan juga akan merancang serangkaian foto tableau vivant (gambar hidup) yang akan dipamerkan pada akhir proyek. Proyek ini didukung oleh Arts Council England dan British Council.
Helen Marshall (lahir 1971) adalah seniman Inggris. Karya-karyanya berakar pada fotografi dan desain. Ia banyak mengerjakan proyek partisipatoris yang melibatkan banyak orang. Proyek terkininya antara lain komisi dari BBC News South East: The People’s Monarch dan residensi pada program The Big & Small di Tate Britain. Website: helenmarshall.co.uk
Risang Yuwono (lahir 1985) belajar fotografi di Fakultas Fotografi Institut Kesenian Jakarta (lulus 2009). Ia kini tinggal dan bekerja di Jakarta sebagai fotografer lepas, membuat foro-foto komersial maupun sosio-kultural. Website: risangyuwono.blogspot.com
Project Tobong is a collaboration between British artist Helen Marshall and Indonesian artist Risang Yuwono, hosted by Indonesia Contemporary Art Network (iCAN), Yogyakarta, Java. It is a research and development arts project with the Ketoprak Tobong Kelana Bakti Budaya, one of the last remaining theatre troupe in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia. Ketoprak is a traditional Javanese theater, with dialogue, monologue and music. The Tobong is a mobile-temporary bamboo building. It often is a stage, a group of dwellings and a place for the audience. Traditional performing arts such as the ketoprak tobong is increasingly marginalised in the contemporary culture of Indonesia. Lack of government support and the invasion of modern urban culture makes their way of life evermore at risk.
The project will document the lives of this community and where they live on the outskirts of the city of Yogyakarta, spending a period of intensive residency with them. They will develop a community archive, organise a program of interactions and interventions that bring about a new audience. They will also carry out a repair program and build a photo booth called ‘Pendapa’ on site. The artists will also devise, with their cooperation, a series of staged photographs or tableau vivant (living pictures) that will be exhibited at the end of the project. This project is supported by Arts Council England and the British Council.
Helen Marshall (b. 1971) is a British artist. Her work is rooted in photography and design. She has a track record in socially engaged and participatory practice in the public realm. Recent work includes a BBC News commission in the South East The Peoples Monarch and a residency on The Big & Small Program at Tate Britain. Website: helenmarshall.co.uk
Risang Yuwono (b. 1985) graduated in Photography in 2009 from the photography faculty at Jakarta Institute of Art, Institut Kesenian Jakarta. He currently lives and works in Jakarta as a freelance photographer on a number of commercial and social cultural assignments. Website: risangyuwono.blogspot.com
