Artist in Residency

Demi Kleinmeulman

Artist in  Residency 

16 – 30 April 2024

Project : Common Ground: Local Narratives, Colonial Traces, and Shared Heritage

The central theme of this project is the exploration of my Indo-Dutch identity, a fusion of Indonesian and Dutch heritage, and an examination of the lingering impacts of colonialism  on personal and collective identities.

Objectives:
• Uncover and reflect on personal connections to the Indo-Dutch cultural heritage.
• Investigate the historical imprints of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia.
• Engage with local communities to understand their perspectives on cultural identity
and colonial legacies.
• Learning about the culture in Indonesia.

Artistic Medium:
The project will utilize a diverse range of artistic mediums, including storytelling and
potentially collaborations with local artists, to create a multi-dimensional narrative.

Activities:
• Personal reflection and creative exploration of Indo-Dutch identity.
• Research into colonial archives and historical sites.
• Interaction and collaboration with local artists and communities.
• Workshops or presentations to share progress and insights with the local community.

Community Engagement
Active participation in local communities is a crucial aspect of this project. Engaging in dialogue with residents, sharing stories, and collaborating on artistic endeavors will be essential for a holistic understanding of the cultural context.

This artist residency proposal seeks to create a meaningful and transformative experience, intertwining personal identity exploration with the examination of historical legacies. Through creative expression and community engagement, the project aims to contribute to a deeper cultural understanding and foster connections between diverse perspectives.

Program

Sharing Session

COMMON GROUND STORIES : where do our stories meet?

Saturday, 20 April 2024
14:00 – 16:00
di Studio Plesungan
(Desa Plesungan rt03 rw02, Plesungan Gondangrejo, Karanganyar 57181)

Sesi ini akan berjalan sebaagi upaya kolaboratif untuk menggali kisah-kisah pribadi. Demi mengajak peserta untuk menjelajahi cerita yang dimiliki oleh masing masing peserta, serta cerita yang dimiliki oleh orang lain. Demi tertarik untuk menelusuri lebih dalam, bagaimana mengubah cerita pribadi menjadi ciptaan artistik, mengolah sumber daya yang bisa digunakan, dan bagaimana peserta dapat mendekati sumber-sumber tersebut.

Demi Kleinmeulman lulus dari program pendidikan seni di Universitas ArtEZ pada tahun 2022, dan telah bekerja sebagai sutradara teater, guru teater, penampil, dan moderator selama beberapa tahun belakangan. Selama studinya, tema “identitas” muncul pada beberapa karyanya dan terbukti menjadi penggerak penting dalam proses penciptaan seninya selama ini. Hal ini mendorong Demi untuk menyelami lebih dalam pada masa lalu keluarga sebagai diaspora Belanda-Indonesia.

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This session is a collaborative search for a personal story. Demi invites participants to explore their personal stories together, as well as those of others. Demi is interested in delving deeper into how to turn a personal story into an artistic product, what resources can be used, and how it can be approached.

Demi Kleinmeulman graduated from the Artist Educator program at ArtEZ University in 2022 and has been working as a theater maker, theater teacher, performer, and moderator for several years. During her studies, the theme of “identity” came up several times and proved to be an important driver of her art-making. This prompted her to delve deeper into her Dutch-Indonesian diasporic family in the past.

1st of August 2023 until the 3rd of September 2023

LISETTE ROS

Lisette Ros has been with us at Studio Plesungan as our Artist in Resident at our studio space, with her project, titled: ‘My Self, the (Unfamiliar) Roots’.
Lisette’s project, ‘My Self, the (Unfamiliar) Roots’, is the sixth part of her ongoing research series titled ‘My Self’. It started with the first part titled ‘My Self, the Fetus’ in 2015, researching the well-known convention of “just being yourself.” In Dutch it’s a common saying: “gewoon lekker jezelf zijn.” But what does that actually mean and contain, being yourself?
From this moment on Lisette Ros started an in depth research into the Self and the identification process, by using her own body as a tool. This sequence now exists of five parts deriving from each other. All the five parts are still being performed and exhibited, as the process is the work.
During the residency at Studio Plesungan she started to develop the sixth part of the ‘My Self’ series. This upcoming new part is about unfamiliar roots, and is about investigating her Indonesian roots, coming from her grandfather. She intends to further discover this part of her self, explore like a child by being in this new field and interact with people from different disciplines on Indonesian ground. At the same time she reached out to people with similar feelings of having unfamiliar roots, in Indonesia but also in Lisette’s home-country The Netherlands to learn more about this in a broadest sense of the word. 
In this project Lisette is “questioning how these (unfamiliar) roots live and manifest in our ‘selves’? Can I find out if these roots are (sub)consciously present in everyday life and within my arts?”
We have been observing Lisette Ros’s works and practices in performance art she has done in the past. As an organization which focuses on the development of performance art practice within the local and global cultural environment, we consider that her proposed project as an important project to be contextualy realised in Indonesia.

Lisette Ros has connducted a workshop, and presented a public performance and an Artist Talk, at the end of her residency .

Lisette Ros (NL, 1991) is a conceptual and performance artist. She uses her body as a tool in order to do research: as a quest towards society, unmasking how mechanisms work; conditioned by an understructure rooted in our basic, daily behavior, and as a quest towards her own, fluid identity: who is she, in the midst of it all? Currently identifying as humanimal, woman, queer and fluid. But mostly, a hybrid form of existence, morphing between the fragmented categories of existing species.

While her performances always carry recognizable elements, she analyses routines and questions conventions, daily rhythms and their self-evidence. She sees the consequences of socio cultural praxis that affect us, whilst the peculiar element to her work is that this all cannot exist apart from her persona. Her body is therefore the pivotal space of action, the battlefield where these types of questions are asked; her ground for exploration. However, the concept is always in the lead. Therefore, the outcomes of Ros’ projects are interdisciplinary; she always uses her own body to explore, do research and investigate, but the outcome can vary between different types of media. Getting the message across is the most important aspect. Ros’ performances are marked by reiterations of the same gestures and acts, increasing the feelings of discomfort in the spectator. Ros’ body is symbol, tool and flesh at the same time.

WORKSHOP SERIES

LISETTE ROS
“The Construction of Identity, and the Fluidity Thereof”

Minggu, 20 Agustus 2023
13:00 – 17:00 WIB

di Studio Plesungan
Desa Plesungan rt03 rw02, Plesungan Gondangrejo, Karanganyar 57181

Workshop ini akan menelusuri (de)konstruksi identitas, beserta fluiditasnya. Lisette akan mengajak peserta untuk mengamati keadaan tubuh dan perilaku, mengeksplorasi berbagai cara berpikir dan berekspresi, mengaktivasi rasa, memberdayakan kerentanan diri, dan pembebasan atas kendali.
Workshop ini berbasis dari perjalanan Lisette dalam membuka dan membongkar kerentanan dalam diri, ia juga akan berbagi beberapa inspirasi dan acuan yang berkaitan secara tematik. Lisette mengharapkan workshop ini dapat menjadi proses yang membebaskan pikiran, kreativitas, serta perjalanan untuk mengenal diri sendiri.

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Lisette Ros adalah seniman konseptual dan performans dari Hilversum, Belanda. Tema utama yang dibahas Lisette adalah: identitas dan fluiditasnya, keragaman penampilan, performativitas gender; mempertanyakan cara berpikir pendek, prasangka, tindakan dangkal, dan sistem sehari-hari. Baginya, yang terpenting adalah untuk belajar melihat ke dalam, mengenal kerentanan, perasaan, dan mengkondisikan diri sendiri. Lisette tertarik dengan proses membuka diri dan bagaimana menerapkannya sebagai kekuatan. Semua dalam konteks penerapan kreatif dan melihat dirinya sebagai perangkat dan wadah penampung. Sebelumnya, Lisette Ros memperoleh pengalaman selama beberapa tahun dalam membentuk dan mengajar kelas tentang (in)toleransi, diskriminasi, identitas, keragaman, dan komunitas LGBTQI+. Lisette bekerja sebagai pengajar seni performans, yang juga mengembangkan program-program kreatif untuk remaja dan dewasa.

Workshop ini terbuka untuk peserta dengan latar belakang tari, teater, dan seni performans. Jumlah peserta terbatas dan wajib mengikuti seluruh rangkaian workshop. Workshop ini tidak menarik biaya pendaftaran (gratis).

LISETTE ROS
Presentasi Publik

Jumat, 1 September 2023

Performans
13:00 – 18:00 WIB

Tayang film dan Diskusi
18:00 – 20:00 WIB

My Self, the (Unfamiliar) Roots
Eksperimen performans pertama: ‘(Aksi) Pencabutan’

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Pada residensi ini, Lisette melanjutkan proses seri karyanya bertajuk “My Self”. Setelah menyelesaikan lima bagian sebagai seri karya, masa residensinya di Studio Plesungan dilalui Lisette dengan mengembangkan bagian keenam, yang merupakan awal tentang wacana keasingan dalam akar ke-Indonesiaannya.

“My Self” merupakan proses telisik yang berkelanjutan atas diri dan proses identifikasi. Penelusuran ini berangkat dari latar belakang kakek Lisette yang berpindah dari Indonesia ke Belanda pada tahun 1926. Tergesernya ide, kebiasaan, tradisi, sistem, perilaku sosial, dan ritme kehidupan sehari-hari, menempatkan Lisette menjadi generasi ketiga dari yang disebut sebagai ‘Indisch (Ver)zwijgen’: Sikap diam tentang kehidupan masa lalu di Indonesia. Lisette mempertanyakan rasa ketidaktahuan di atas tanah dan ruang yang asing, melalui DNA yang menyimpan ingatan di dalam tubuhnya.

Esensi ’ (Tindakan) Mencabut’, diambil dengan mencabut secara menyeluruh. ‘Mencabut’ mengacu pada proses menghilangkan sesuatu atau seseorang dari posisi aslinya, termasuk akar atau fondasinya; untuk berpindah dari lingkungan asal atau kebiasaannya, tempat asal mereka. Hal ini terkait dengan ketidakberdayaan, keterkejutan, ketakutan, duka – perasaan kehilangan identitas dan kendali atas rasa keterasingan.

Zai Kuning and Xiaohan Han

Zai Kuning (Zailani bin Kuning) and Xiaohan (Han, Sheng) are our artists in Residency at Studio Plesungan from April 28th to May 5th, 2023.

The residency program is to support the process of Prodigal Song -The Pagan Story. This is a dance theatre project initiated by Zai Kuning and inspired by Animistic and Shamanistic dances and music. An interpretation of the living ancient world. This work is part of Zai Kuning’s continuous and long-standing effort, since 1995, to showcase the stories of the indigenous people, namely the Orang Laut. For the past 20 years, his works have been focusing on the circumstances of the indigenous people in the Riau Archipelago, West Malaysia and Thailand. Now, to him, his works are based on his reactions and feelings towards the indigenous people of the world who have suffered the same fate, particularly on the issue of land ownership and their dying art, music and dance, which have been in existence for millions of years through the worlds of Animism, Paganism and Shamanism.

The expression and creation of this work are not specifically referring to any tribes of the world. It is through the workshop that the performer will ask themselves how they think and feel about the dance movements of the indigenous people of the world. Led by Zai Kuning and Xiao Han, this workshop introduces ancient beats, grooves, rhythms and melodies that the indigenous people have been playing within their communities for more than 20 years. The aim of this workshop is to lead the performer to search for their own primal sense through dance performance, from body movement to vocalization. The performer will also be introduced to the idea of using masks to form their own personal characterization.

This project will begin with the search for original musical compositions between Zai and Xiao Han. Xiao Han is an experienced musician, composer and music teacher based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He has studied Manchu traditional music and shamanism. Zai, on the other hand, is known for his personalized interpretation of the Ghazal and his drumming style which is a mixture between Malay, Japanese and Korean styles. None of Zai’s musical works are to be considered ‘traditional’, they are all derived from his personalized style.

PRESENTASI PUBLIK
Rabu, 3 Mei 2023
19:00 WIB
di Studio Plesungan
(Desa Plesungan rt03 rw02, Plesungan Gondangrejo, Karanganyar 57181)

Kisah Pagan dan lagu-lagunya yang hilang (The Pagan Stories and its prodigal songs)

Diprakarsai/disutradarai oleh Zai Kuning
2023 – Bekerja sama dengan Xiaohan Han (Manchuria, China)

Karya ini merupakan upaya berkelanjutan Zai Kuning  sejak 1995 yang berbicara tentang kisah-kisah masyarakat adat yaitu Orang Laut meskipun kini setelah 20 tahun menyelami apa yang terjadi pada masyarakat adat Kepulauan Riau, Malaysia Barat, dan Thailand. Baginya, ini semua tentang kterlibatannya dalam menyadari dan merasakan situasi penduduk asli dunia yang mengalami kesamaan nasib, terutama pada krisis kepemilikan tanah, seni, musik, dan tarian yang telah ada selama jutaan tahun melalui dunia Animisme/Paganisme dan Shamanisme.

Kali ini Zai bekerja sama dengan Xiaohan Han dalam pencarian ‘Music for Dance Theatre’. Studio Plesungan menjadi titik awal bagi Zai dalam proses pencarian musisi dan penari hingga akhir tahun 2023 ini. Pada tahun 2024, ia berharap proses penciptaan THE PAGAN STORIES dapat dimulai, setelah 20 tahun absen di dunia teater tari sebagai sutradara dan penampil.

Presentasi kali ini berfokus terutama pada musik rakyat dari tradisi spiritual Manchuria yang ditafsirkan oleh Xiaohan, dengan Zai bermain bersama (drum/vokal) dalam gaya drum dan musik Zai yang dipersonalisasi.
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Zai Kuning adalah salah satu seniman berpengaruh di Singapura. Ia secara konsisten terlibat dengan budaya dan ekologi yang unik di kawasan Asia Tenggara, dan telah memelopori praktik multi-disiplin dan berbagai jenis improvisasi  yang mencakup patung, instalasi, lukisan, dan gambar, suara/musik eksperimental, video, film, seni pertunjukan, tari dan teater. Dia adalah presiden pertama The Artists Village (TAV), sebuah kolektif seniman yang didirikan oleh Tang Da Wu di Singapura. Setelah meninggalkan TAV, Zai membentuk Metabolic Theater Laboratory (MTL), sebuah perusahaan teater tari berorientasi penelitian, dan produksinya berkeliling Hong Kong, Jepang, dan Korea.

Xiaohan lahir pada tahun 1974 di Manchuria. Dia adalah seorang komposer kontemporer dan penyair yang memadukan unsur-unsur musik daerah, dengan karir musik profesional selama hampir 30 tahun. Sebagian besar karyanya terinspirasi dengan mitos dan legenda kuno Pegunungan Putih dan Perairan Hitam (White Mountain and Black Water). Penciptaan musiknya didasari pada logika etnomusikologi Asia Timur Laut, menerapkan metode komposisi modern Barat, dan kehalusannya penuh dengan situasi oriental yang misterius, sunyi, dan halus, serta memberikan citra piktorial.

Program ini terbuka dan gratis!

Kontak:
+62 821-3322-9593 (Verina)

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JULIET BURNETT and the collective of Kasekten Project

Juliet Burnett, is an independent choreographer and dancer from the Gold Coast Region, Australia who was our Artist in Residence at Studio Plesungan for two weeks during 2023.
The residency program is to support Juliet Burnett’s research for her collective project entitled Kasekten. The project is seeking the relationship between the exercise of true power that has effects in the real world and causing irreverseble change. The piece is researching the passing of time/circularity of time: “the characteristic of time cannot be separated from the great efforts exerted by Javanese people in maintaining their harmonious relations with the universe”. It will rewrite ancient stories and rituals in a new story of power. It focuses on woman as protagonist and changing nature of womens’ bodies reflected in changes of the earth and sky – metamorphosis of matter. Kasekten is a collective work of Juliet Burnett, Karina Utomo, Michaela Gleave, Rama Parwata and Jaya Parwata.
We would like to encourage Juliet Burnett and her collaborators in this project by fasilitating space as well as to connect them with experts and artists regarding their focus research.

We encouraged the collective of Kasekten Project by fasilitating space as well as to connect them with experts and artists regarding their focus research.
During their stay in Solo, the collective has shared a workshop session for young artists from Solo and has given an open artist talk.

Juliet Burnett is an Indonesian-Australian dancer, choreographer and founder-director of A__PART, connecting Indonesian and Australian artists and communities. She is one of Australia’s most recognised dancers after her years at The Australian Ballet (2003-2015) and guesting with Chunky Move and West Australian Ballet; then from 2016-2022 she forged a career in Europe as dancer at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Belgium under Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s direction, also guesting with Dutch National Ballet. In 2015 she began working occasionally in her mother’s country of Indonesia, including performing contemporary and classical work, master classes for local dancers and community workshops for marginalised children. Juliet has been trained in her grandmother’s art of Javanese classical dance, and other traditional Javanese dances and art forms such as the martial art of Silat. As a choreographer she co-created a dance film ‘Letting Blood’ for Dark Mofo (2016), choreographed and performed in music clips for Melbourne band Cool Explosions (2018) and Icelandic artist Gyda Valtysdottir (2021), and a dance theatre work ‘in situ’ (2019) for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, featuring actor-dancer Victor Polster and gamelan music by Will Guthrie, currently in pre-production for a short film adaptation. Her credits as producer include two short films ‘NATAPTEDI’ (2021) and ‘Sweating Rocks’ (2021) for A__PART, ‘Letting Blood’ (2016), ‘in situ’ (2019) and now as director and producer for the new work ‘Kasekten’ (2023). In her practice Juliet explores a hybrid of Javanese dance and arts with Western classical and contemporary forms, navigating the confluence of dance, theatre and music. In 2022 Juliet returns to Australia, basing herself in Yugambeh-Kombumerri country (Gold Coast), to continue work as a freelance dancer and choreographer and to lead A__PART into the future.

http://www.julietburnett.com/

http://a-part.co

1 – 30 November 2022

CLAUDIA BOSSE

Claudia Bosse is our Artist in Residence at our studio space with her project :
ORACLE and SACRIFICE, a project which conducts research into oracles and sacrifices in the future and past with a practice of poetic acts that touch the inside and outside of the body and the inside and outside of the world.
In ORACLE and SACRIFICE, organs become a medium of poetic oracle and communication with the future.
 This work is inspired by the Babylonians and Etruscans blood sacrifices and viscera, in which the political future was read from the organs of killed animals. The liver oracle was practiced especially by Etruscans; organs from animals killed in a sacrificial ritual were interpreted. Perhaps sacrifices are rituals of collective agreement that deal with the trauma that require the protection of the vulnerable community.
The work is questioning the ability of the environment’s ecology, the surrounding external, global political decisions and cosmic relationships as well as future forms of community to be read from the internal body, from the organs.
What if we carried our future in our organs?
In ORACLE and SACRIFICE, organs become a medium of poetic oracle and communication with the future.

Claudia Bosse lives in Vienna and Berlin, is a director, choreographer, artist and directs the transdisciplinary constellation theatercombinat. Her works negotiate forms of violence, history and concrete utopias. She understands her expansive choreographies as “art of a temporary community” – also with non-human beings – in which she interweaves myths, rituals, texts and documents with bodies, language, objects and choirs to create pieces. Inside and outside Europe, in museums, architectures, theatres, landscapes and urban spaces, she develops site-specific works, performances and interventions.

She teaches, holds divers Guest professor ships, delivers lectures, publishes, initiates and participates in research projects and continuously collaborates with artists and theorists of different genres. in autumn 2021  she initiated the PPS intergenerational public performance school in vienna and TPA translocal performative academy for space related performative practice which operates in digital space and analog encounters and brings mid career artist from asia and europe in an 4 year lasting ongoing artistic exchange.

 She is currently working on the performance BONES and STONES, premiering at the end of February 2023 at Tanzquartier Wien, as part of the four-year project ORGAN/ism poetics of relation and commune 1-73 with 73 fragments on the Paris Commune of 1871.

Most recently: ORACLE and SACRIFICE in the woods with brut vienna, the assembly of different beings at FFT düsseldorf, ORACLE and SACRIFICE 1 or  the evacuation of the present at Tanzquartier Vienna and FFT Düsseldorf, Pumpenhaus Münster and Impuls Dance Festival Vienna, the last IDEAL PARADISE in Jakarta,

2009 Nestroy PRIze for bambiland 2008, 2014 invitation with designed desires to the Austrian Dance Platform, 2018 invitation to the German Dance Platform with the last IDEAL PARADISE.

www.theatercombinat.com

ON STAGE
ORACLE and SACRIFICE oleh Claudia Bosse / theatercombinat
Selasa, 29 November 2022
Jam 16:00 – 18:00 WIB
di Studio Plesungan

Pada hari Selasa tanggal 29 November 2022, kami mengundang Bapak/Ibu/Saudara untuk menyaksikan sebuah pertunjukan menjelang senja di pelataran Studio Plesungan oleh theatercombinat, sebuah kelompok pertunjukan transdisipliner yang diinisiasi oleh Claudia Bosse. Claudia Bosse adalah seniman pertunjukan dari Wina, Austria. Pada kesempatan ini, Claudia akan membawakan karya pertunjukan bertajuk “ORACLE and SACRIFICE”.

ORACLE and SACRIFICE terinspirasi oleh bentuk pengorbanan darah dan visi orang-orang Babilonia dan Etruria, di mana masa depan politik dibaca melalui organ-organ hewan yang dikorbankan. Ramalan hati dipraktikkan secara khusus oleh orang-orang Etruska; organ hewan yang dibunuh dalam ritual pengorbanan menjadi praktik yang ditafsirkan dalam karya ini . Claudia bekerja dengan hubungan antara organ dalam tubuh dan dunia. Pecah belah hubungan dalam ramalan dan pengorbanan disalurkan sebagai (menyerupai-)objek dan narasi performatif dengan tubuh dan materi visual, seperti gerak, perubahan, bunyi, bahasa, dan suara.

Pertunjukan ini akan dilanjutkan dengan sesi Bincang Seniman yang dipandu oleh Halim HD sebagai pemantik diskusi.

Pertunjukan ini tidak menarik biaya tiket (gratis).
Penonton diharapkan sedia payung dan jas hujan.

Kontak dan informasi:
HP / WA: 082133229593
website: www.studioplesungan.org
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