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27 July 2020

Itemise the past / Dream the future

Public space and territories of practice in Yogyakarta and Timor-Leste

Join Bayu, Fitri DK (SURVIVE! Garage), Alfe RM, Chris and Fikaris (Animatism) in conversation as they reflect on their practice, the restyling of urban subjectivities, public space collaborations, and the work of art collectives in Yogyakarta & Timor-Leste.

SURVIVE! Garage was established in 2009 as an alternative community space and art shop. SURVIVE! Garage works with a range of artists and communities from Indonesia, and supports young independent & emerging artists by providing a space to exhibit, run performances and workshops. SURVIVE! Garage provides a community base for artists who sit outside mainstream art culture to connect with each other.

Animatism is an exchange of creative ideas and artistic action between Melbourne and East Timor. Animatism supports cultural exchange, festival and showcase opportunities for collaborations between Australian and East Timorese artists led by East Timor’s free art school, Arte Moris and Melbourne-based artists and creative producers. The project creates intergenerational spaces for dialogue around artistic resilience, peace and the creative articulation of a unified vision of contemporary East Timor. The project advocates for creative ways to bring Australians and East Timorese together in partnership, deepening cross-cultural understanding across the Asia-Pacific region, developing new creative works for Australian and East Timorese audiences and broadening networks between the two countries. Animatism seeks to advance regional knowledge about life through art.

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Fitriani Dwi Kurniasih (Fitri DK) is an art worker from Yogyakarta. Fitri is also a visual artist who uses graphic art techniques  (such as hardboard cuts and etchings) to question social and environmental issues. Through art and music, Fitri raises women’s issues and consistently presents a strong voice in a patriarchal context. Fitri is a member of SURVIVE! Garage community, Taring Padi art collective, and vocalist of the band Dendang Kampungan.
 
 
 
Bayu Widodo is an art worker; founder and owner of alternative art space SURVIVE! Garage in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Bayu is also known as a visual artist using graphic art and painting techniques to critique political, social and environmental issues. He has exhibited widely in Indonesia and abroad. Bayu runs screen printing workshops in communities, schools and his studio is open to all who is interested in learning about art, particularly graphic art techniques. Bayu is also an active member of the Taring Padi art collective.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chris Parkinson is a photographic artist, arts professional and published author who seeks to build inclusive conditions for artists and art to flourish. Chris’ long-term collaboration with East Timorese artists developed the Animatism collective; a cross-cultural collective of artists working on creative diplomacy projects between Australia, East Timor, and Indonesia. His 2010 book, Peace of Wall: Street Art from East Timor, was described as a ‘book of evocative photojournalism capturing an important moment in East Timor’s history through its walls’. Chris is a Youth Arts Officer with the City of Yarra, sits on the Centre for Projection Art’s Creative Advisory Committee and is a senior editor of Photodust.
He was a member of the VCA’s Art, Social and Spatial Practice Research Cluster and is a recipient of grants from Creative Victoria, the University of Melbourne, the Australian International Cultural Council, the Department of Justice, VicHealth and a recipient of a Peter Macphee Student Engagement Award (University of Melbourne) and an Australian Arts in Asia Award.
Alfeo Sanches Pereira (Alfe RM) is a Timorese visual artist. He trained at the Arte Moris art school in Dili from 2004-2010 in a newly-independent Timor-Leste. Alfe has refined his practice through several international cultural exchanges and has exhibited in solo and collective exhibitions in Dili, Australia, Switzerland (2008), Macau (2016) and France (2017). In Melbourne, he has painted murals in Richmond, Fitzroy and the CBD and has co-created projections for the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. Alfe’s work connects closely with activist movements in Timor-Leste. His stencil art became a symbol of his country’s fight for a fair maritime boundary with Australia, a longstanding dispute which was resolved in 2018. Alfe is currently living in Melbourne.
 
 
 
Michael Fikaris is an Australian multidisciplinary artist whose career has spanned nearly 20 years. Initially a central figure in both Melbourne’s comic book and street art movements in the early 2000s, Fikaris has expanded their oeuvre into print making, small press publishing and large-scale painting. Fikaris has worked extensively on projects locally and internationally with varying communities as well as art institutions and educational bodies. As a freelance artist and community driven project leader, Fikaris has been publishing anthologies under the nameSilent Army comic collective since 2002 and in 2017 was awarded the Platinum Ledger Award for outstanding service to Australian comics.
 
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Date: 27 July 2020
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Fitriani Dwi Kurniasih

(Fitri DK) is an art worker from Yogyakarta. Fitri is also a visual artist who uses graphic art techniques  (such as hardboard cuts and etchings) to question social and environmental issues. Through art and music, Fitri raises women’s issues and consistently presents a strong voice in a patriarchal context. Fitri is a member of SURVIVE! Garage community, Taring Padi art collective, and vocalist of the band Dendang Kampungan.

Bayu Widodo

is an art worker; founder and owner of alternative art space SURVIVE! Garage in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Bayu is also known as a visual artist using graphic art and painting techniques to critique political, social and environmental issues. He has exhibited widely in Indonesia and abroad. Bayu runs screen printing workshops in communities, schools and his studio is open to all who is interested in learning about art, particularly graphic art techniques. Bayu is also an active member of the Taring Padi art collective.

Chris Parkinson

is a photographic artist, arts professional and published author who seeks to build inclusive conditions for artists and art to flourish. Chris’ long-term collaboration with East Timorese artists developed the Animatism collective; a cross-cultural collective of artists working on creative diplomacy projects between Australia, East Timor, and Indonesia. His 2010 book, Peace of Wall: Street Art from East Timor, was described as a ‘book of evocative photojournalism capturing an important moment in East Timor’s history through its walls’. Chris is a Youth Arts Officer with the City of Yarra, sits on the Centre for Projection Art’s Creative Advisory Committee and is a senior editor of Photodust.
He was a member of the VCA’s Art, Social and Spatial Practice Research Cluster and is a recipient of grants from Creative Victoria, the University of Melbourne, the Australian International Cultural Council, the Department of Justice, VicHealth and a recipient of a Peter Macphee Student Engagement Award (University of Melbourne) and an Australian Arts in Asia Award.

Alfeo Sanches Pereira

(Alfe RM) is a Timorese visual artist. He trained at the Arte Moris art school in Dili from 2004-2010 in a newly-independent Timor-Leste. Alfe has refined his practice through several international cultural exchanges and has exhibited in solo and collective exhibitions in Dili, Australia, Switzerland (2008), Macau (2016) and France (2017). In Melbourne, he has painted murals in Richmond, Fitzroy and the CBD and has co-created projections for the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. Alfe’s work connects closely with activist movements in Timor-Leste. His stencil art became a symbol of his country’s fight for a fair maritime boundary with Australia, a longstanding dispute which was resolved in 2018. Alfe is currently living in Melbourne.

Michael Fikaris
Michael Fikaris

is an Australian multidisciplinary artist whose career has spanned nearly 20 years. Initially a central figure in both Melbourne’s comic book and street art movements in the early 2000s, Fikaris has expanded their oeuvre into print making, small press publishing and large-scale painting. Fikaris has worked extensively on projects locally and internationally with varying communities as well as art institutions and educational bodies. As a freelance artist and community driven project leader, Fikaris has been publishing anthologies under the name Silent Army comic collective since 2002 and in 2017 was awarded the Platinum Ledger Award for outstanding service to Australian comics.