Round Table 1:
Site specific Practices and Remote Collaboration
Can a transnational team co-create works of art without moving across borders?
Ever since TERASIA set off from this question, collective members across Asia have been communicating online via text messages and video meetings, to see and exchange thoughts on each others works, and discuss and develop ideas for new ones. Online events and presentations have also led to welcoming new artists to the collective, which has evolved solely on remote communication and collaboration until September 2022.
On the other hand, the actual creation and presentation of TERA works have been done primarily in the artists’ city or locality, for the local audience, in its social context. Be it a temple in Tokyo or Chiang Mai, the works have a heavy “site-specific” element, that eventually gets shared online with subtitles for collective members and audience in other parts of the world to watch. With each performance entailing new encounters, the project has constantly transformed as artists in different locations create new works freely based on a common concept.
We call this process “reincarnation,” in the words of the Buddhist tradition. Just as the human soul repeatedly dies and is reborn anew, each work gets destroyed and recreated to appear in a different place, in a completely different form.
The first half of this roundtable will provide a concrete overview of TERASIA’s practice as a “remote” and “site-specific” collective, from the perspectives of both the members who have participated in TERASIA since its inception and the artists based in Jakarta. In the second half, we will discuss the possibilities of utilizing these experiences and networks of remote collaboration in the multicultural art communities scattered throughout Indonesia.
Speakers:
Maho Watanabe (Dramaturg, TERASIA Collective, Japan)
Narumol Thammapruksa (Director, TERASIA Collective, Thailand)
Irwan Ahmet (Designer, Visual and Performance Artist)
Moderator:
Yustiansyah Lesmana (TERASIA Collective, Indonesia)
[Overview]
- Jakarta
Venue: Komunitas Utan Kayu - Teater
Time and Date: 14:00-16:00, January 13, 2024
Language: Indonesian and English
Maho Watanabe
Narumol Thammapruksa (Kop)
Irwan Ahmett
Yustiansyah Lesmana