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Artist-in-Residence
Program has been a part of Purnati since 2000, the first year
of its existence. We invite individual artists of all disciplines
to stimulate exchange of ideas and to inspire collaborative projects
between artists and arts of Indonesia and the world.
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Bhima Swarga workshop
at the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts
André Gingras residency
18 – 30 September 2006
Choreographer André Gingras (Holland/Canada),
video artist Catarina Campino (Portugal) and dramaturge Sue Jane
Stoker (USA) spent 2 weeks in residency at the Purnati Center, where
they worked intensively with composer Rahayu Supanggah (Java) and
3 Indonesian dancers, I Gede Sudiarcana and Kadek Tegeh Okta Wm
(both from Bali) and Indra Widaryatno (Jogjakarta). They also conducted
a day-long residency at the SMK Negeri 2 Sukawati, filming a video
with nine of the second- and third-year students from this high
school for the arts.
During the residency, movement research was done
with the three dancers, resulting in the filming of a second video
featuring only these dancers, and a third video involving several
of the students from SMK and the three resident dancers. Further
research was done towards creating material for a possible collaboration
on a live performance piece choreographed by Mr. Gingras and featuring
the three resident dancers, and music performed by Mr. Supanggah
and other Indonesian musicians. The plan is to present this in Utrecht
as part of the Springdance 2007 Festival, in conjunction with the
presentation of one or more of the videos filmed during the residency.
At least one of these videos will have its first
public presentation at the Purnati Center for the Arts as part of
a fundraising gala for the Center in December 2006.
The Western artists also had the opportunity to
learn something about Indonesian art and culture through their contact
with these fine Indonesian artists, by visiting and speaking with
teachers and students from the SMK fine arts high school, and ISI,
the University for Fine Arts in Den Pasar, as well as by viewing
a variety of traditional performances and ceremonies, and visiting
and speaking with several traditional craftsmen in their studios.
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| ANDRÉ GINGRAS, resident
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The time I spent at Purnati
was my first time in Indonesia, and I was deeply impressed by the
richness of the culture and the depth of kindness of the people
there. As for the Purnati Center itself, it creates an extraordinary
opportunity for cultural exchange, facilitated by a very professional
staff. This vibrant place creates and fosters an enthusiastic environment
for the development of new forms in modern dance and visual arts.
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CARLEEN
SHEEHAN and MARK GIGLIO, resident artists
from New York
The highlight of my time
at Purnati was working on a collaborative project with fellow
artist-in-residence Mark Giglio and two Balinese artists,
I Wayan Suja and I Putu Sudiana 'Bonuz'. The four of us collaborated
on a mural, titled "Continuous Painting for the Village
of Ubud". The mural was completed during the second half
of our residency and will hopefully develop into an on-going
project. We settled on a process that involved intuitive layering
and collaging of imagery, which was both challenging and liberating,
as each artist had to trust the others to move the work forward
in a way that would strengthen and enhance each other's work.
For me it was an incredibly positive experience that is already
influencing the way I plan to approach my working process
in the studio.
Visual language as a vital part of everyday
life, the natural world as a constant reference and source
of decorative/devotional imagery, a sense of images embedded,
woven into the fabric of daily life, color as an offering,
as a surprise moment.....these are some of the strongest impressions
I take back from Bali, along with the incredible openness
and kindness of the people I met there.
Carleen Sheehan, June 2006 |
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Carleen Sheehan Sampler
Series #27, 2006 |
Mark Giglio Untitled,
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VISUAL
COLLABORATION: CONTINUOUS PAINTING FOR THE VILLAGE OF UBUD
First Stage: New York - Bali
A Collaborative Project Between Artists of Yayasan Bali Purnati,
Komaneka Fine Arts Gallery and Ubud Community
We are honored to announce
and initiate a new ART PROJECT: Continuous Painting for the
Village of Ubud. The painting as an ongoing process, both
in time and space will be displayed in both gallery-museum
settings and in outdoor, public spaces in and around Ubud.
At the same time the project is an open invitation to the
international and Indonesian art communities: to visit, to
work with us and to exchange ideas.
The purpose of this project
is to create meaningful collaborative artwork, linking different
cultures through a living work of art. Most importantly, its
intention is to energize and welcome participation of the
local communities: not only artists, but also small and large
businesses and all residents of our area. We very much hope
that the Continuous Painting will create more bridges between
Yayasan Bali Purnati, Komaneka Fine Arts Gallery, the Ubud
Community and the world. We also hope it will open new avenues
of dialogue within our community, making its voices stronger
and defined.
We are starting with the
creation of a collaborative painting by four artists: two
from New York, artists-in-residence at Yayasan Bali Purnati,
the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts in Batuan: Carleen
Sheehan and Mark Giglio, and two
artists represented by Komaneka Fine Arts Gallery, I
Putu Sudiana and I Wayan Suja.
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DEAN MOSS, resident
artist from New York
Open!, a multidisciplinary
performance collaboration of poet/performer/activist Cok Sawitri
from Bali and choreographer/video maker/director Dean Moss
from New York City, was presented June 5, 2006 at the Art
Center in Denpasar. It featured the young community theater/dance
group Kelompok Tulus Ngayah and both artists in an in-progress
performance. Co-produced by Yayasan bali Purnati, The Bali
Purnati Center for the Arts, Kelompok Tulus Ngayah and Gametophyte
Inc.,with additional support from Restu Kusumaningrum, the
work represents the first phase in the development of an ambitious
multipart project between the two artists.
The next phases of the project
include a research trip to New York City for Cok Sawitri,
to explore both experimental and community theater practices
with Dean Moss serving as guide and colleague. Subsequently
Moss plans to return to Bali and collaborate with Cok and
her experimental performance company on a full evening work.
This new performance will, like Open!, focus sincerely and
critically on the timely sociopolitical questions of identity,
cultural diversity and the integration of traditional and
contemporary culture. Most importantly the project will be
designed for presentation at and possibly replication by [at
least in form] community groups and community based art centers
all across Indonesia. Of course should the work inspire additional
interest, there is also an optional plan to develop it for
international touring.
In
sharing this project and themselves, Cok Sawitri and Dean
Moss, seek to deepen their individual creative practices and
to establish a more culturally specific, community based model
for experimental contemporary performance and international
collaboration in Indonesia.
May - June 2006
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GERDA
VAN LEEUWEN, resident artist from New York
The phase between ideas through
the process of inspiration to a final art piece is what interests
me most.
It is the act of creating sheets of ink drawings and doodles
that look sometimes like incoherent writing, needed to be
translated into three dimensional metal objects. At the end
I use these wire sculptures to print, either onto paper or
fabric.
The village sounds surrounding Purnati: temple music, people’s
voices, laughter, motorbikes, geckos, roosters and dogs create
an immense background and help me along in my working process.
It is something I hoped and longed for being used to working
in New York with its own background noises.
April
– May, 2005 and May 2006
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