Making Sense of a Tiger Attack
14 February 2020
Studio Batur, Bandung
Studio Batur, Bandung
The title of this exhibition was inspired by Mochtar Lubis's oeuvre Harimau, Harimau! Where the phenomena of a tiger attack were not introduced to the story through a vulgar description of the tiger’s physical grandiose. The weight and tension of the situation were communicated through sensory cues and ungoverned thoughts that arise out from eerie pauses between attacks. Each of the 7 characters engages in the process of sense-making, formulating a subjective meaning that in turn, contributes to the tiger attack’s collective meaning.
This aspect of the story is parallel to our experience in Bandung. More than academic writing, the works created in Studio Batur does not report subjective experience in descriptive words, but instead expressing them through non-words, pauses, subtexts. In creating this exhibition, we are not trying to replicate the objective truth of the city as the subject of our works, neither to describe it word by word, but to create a perceptual moment. It has emancipated itself from the reference to the natural world for it has become a reference itself through the addition of the artist’s subjectivity.
Making Sense of a Tiger Attack is a residency programme participated by 7 artists: Akai Chew, Abigail Goh, Bernice Dela Cruz, Lija Markus, Nicole Phua, Nature Shankar, and Paradise Now (Bryan Tan and Jay Ho)- in Bandung that results in an exhibition. Each of these artists makes sense of phenomena happening in a similar background which is the city of Bandung.
Through the different construct of perception, the artworks in this exhibition space contribute to a multi-faceted collective of Bandung, and in extention, Southeast Asia.
This programme is an initiative by The Dung Beetle Project X therightbelief, held and supported by Studio Batur Bandung with whom we quickly fall in love with.
This aspect of the story is parallel to our experience in Bandung. More than academic writing, the works created in Studio Batur does not report subjective experience in descriptive words, but instead expressing them through non-words, pauses, subtexts. In creating this exhibition, we are not trying to replicate the objective truth of the city as the subject of our works, neither to describe it word by word, but to create a perceptual moment. It has emancipated itself from the reference to the natural world for it has become a reference itself through the addition of the artist’s subjectivity.
Making Sense of a Tiger Attack is a residency programme participated by 7 artists: Akai Chew, Abigail Goh, Bernice Dela Cruz, Lija Markus, Nicole Phua, Nature Shankar, and Paradise Now (Bryan Tan and Jay Ho)- in Bandung that results in an exhibition. Each of these artists makes sense of phenomena happening in a similar background which is the city of Bandung.
Through the different construct of perception, the artworks in this exhibition space contribute to a multi-faceted collective of Bandung, and in extention, Southeast Asia.
This programme is an initiative by The Dung Beetle Project X therightbelief, held and supported by Studio Batur Bandung with whom we quickly fall in love with.