Sarha is a community radio based in Palestine which is managed by a collective called Sakakini. As part of a lumbung members, they host lumbung members. Lumbung which means rice barn is a concept used by Documenta 15 as a curatorial theme covering from cultural to economic practices. Radio Sahara invited Jatiwangi Art Factory to… Continue reading Radio Sarha on Jatiwangi Art Factory
Author: Putra Hidayatullah
On Trampoline House
Imagine a moment ago you just passed the sea with fierce waves. Shadows of death and uncertainty dawdled in your mind. Is there a better life on the other side? Circumstances have forced you to leave your homeland, where your childhood and the lingering memories of mother and family reside. Stranded on a strange land… Continue reading On Trampoline House
On Lumbung (Mirror)
IMAGINE we are on time machine holding on magical chair that’s going to take us to a distant past. As we close our eyes we would land on an old archipelago with myriad cultures. Thousands of islands are connected by the ocean. Sailors of the worlds are waiting for the monsoons wind to reach the… Continue reading On Lumbung (Mirror)
In the Shadow of Dreams
In Dipantara you find yourself as a stranger. Between the city spaces you see a crowd you don’t recognize. The current of vehicles races with the flow of life. Looking up you see the buildings standing under the slow-moving clouds. “Welcome to the country under the wind,” as if you could hear the giant statues… Continue reading In the Shadow of Dreams
Before the Storm
The smell of crops touches your nostrils. Nearby a point where you are standing is a small building. It is not hanging, yet it is high above your head. Dozens of chickens are underneath waiting some crops to fall. Your hand hold on the stair. It is made of dried branches of trees. Without worrying,… Continue reading Before the Storm
Seven Skinny Cows
Seven skinny cows gobble seven fat ones, they are sequentially appeared in your dream. At a glance, seven dried wheat stalks and seven wet wheat stems emerge. You are awake. Your mind is struck by the oddness. You have a hunch that it is a sign, perhaps a message from the universe? The increasingly confusion… Continue reading Seven Skinny Cows