What is TERASIA?
Sua TERASIA is an arts festival that brings together “TERASIA”. What is TERASIA? Who has been doing what and where for the past four years? Through several projects, we will have a small exhibition space where you can experience the connection and the expansion of expression of TERASIA. Please drop by between programs.
[Overview]
– Jakarta
Venue-J1: Komunitas Utan Kayu – Kedai Tempo
Time and Date: January 12-14, 2024
– Bandung
Venue-B2: ISBI Bandung – Studio Teater
Time and Date: January 17, 2024
*Content combination changes daily.
1. Photo exhibition : Reflection and Reinterpretation of TERA เถระ
The team that created the performance program "TERA เถระ" for the Bandung venue will reinterpret various stories from the work, weave in new elements such as masks and dance, and exhibit a series of photographs taken in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Conception and Coordination: Narumol Thammapruksa
Photographers: Venerable Sonethavy Thoumpaseuth, Supamok Silarak
Actors: Sonoko Prow, Kram Thum
Musicians: Great Lekakul, Torpong Samerjai
2. 360-degree VR Video: “Born in Bamboo”
In this group performance with members of multiple languages and nationalities, we filmed a performance that celebrates the birth of life in a bamboo forest as a 360-degree VR video, based on the rhythm of the soundtrack for the “Jigoku-za” (“Hell’s Players”) scene in TERA in Kyoto. Video can be viewed with a VR headset.
Director: Yukari Sakata
An Aged Bamboo-Cutter Man: Dindon W.S.
An Aged Bamboo-Cutter Woman: Narumol (Kop) Thammapruksa
Performers: Fauzi, Ovi, Jawir, Rayhan, Ridho, Sahri, Alfi, Sahsi, Kharis, Abdii, Baban Sopandi, Sari Mutia Kasih, Rizki Guciano, Nur Widia Loka, Alif Akbar Al-fata, Ike Dirga Santosa, Diah Lestari, Aime, Ale, Yustiansyah Lesmana, Sugiyanti Ariani, Zun Ei Phyu, Maho Watanabe
Videography: Ryohei Tomita
Music: Kyojun Tanaka
Special support: Hutan Kota Sangga Buana
3. 3D archive of the "Masking/Unmasking Death" exhibition
Visitors can experience a 3D archive of the May 2022 exhibition by Myanmarese artist Kamizu in Tokyo, using matterport, while cruising around on a tablet.
Curator: Haruka Iharada
Artist: Kamizu
Archival production cooperation: Tokyo Geidai Art DX
Message from the Artist
Masking/Unmasking Death
Birth and death are the universal process for all living things. How and when we will be born and we will die cannot be controlled and are unknown to us. What we can control is how we will live between that birth and death. Some people’s deaths are honorable, some people’s deaths are unknown, some people’s deaths are disgusting, and so on. But all are decided by how you live before you die. During their lifetime, people mask themselves with many different faces depending on the time, place, and situation. But when we die, all become unmasked.
This is a place for the audience to be able to reflect and think about their own concept of death. You can give some time to unmask your death, to see how it can be. And last but not least, this is a place where we, human beings, can feel the energy of solidarity and the exchange of perceptions about life and death.
This is a place for the audience to be able to reflect and think about their own concept of death. You can give some time to unmask your death, to see how it can be. And last but not least, this is a place where we, human beings, can feel the energy of solidarity and the exchange of perceptions about life and death.
Kamizu（Artist）