Starting from 2011, YBY launched BJ Equator series project focusing on the equator regions. YBY assumes the equator as a new perspective as well as opens itself up to confront the ‘establishment’ as well the convention of such events. Equator is the starting point and the common platform to re-read the world. This year marks the fifth Edition of Biennale Jogja Equator where we work with Southeast Asia, including 52 artists and groups, from different regions and cities.
This year Biennale Jogja is curated by Akiq AW and Arham Rahman from Indonesia, and Penwadee Nophaket Manont from Thailand. They focus on the notion of “periphery” that is not merely refers to the idea of place, but most importantly is about the subject or community that live within: the subjects who were not benefited from or suffered from economically or politically within a social structure. This will touch upon the matters of power relationships, how the subject of the periphery forced to be in face to face situation with the hegemonic power wherever they exist. As issue, the notion of periphery can be extended to various problems in our everyday life: the gap of gender equality, the violence to human rights, labour and working class problems particularly related to migrant workers, discrimination based on race or religions, and many others.
With that regards, some artists present works or projects that respond to the tension of the center and the surrounding, try to offer an alternative and subversive position, to highlight the voice from the marginal. Konkhaern Manifesto occupies an abandoned space in the city of Yogyakarta to create platform for various mediums, to stage the existence of those exploited, forgotten and discplaced from overwhelming mainstream developments. Muslimah Collective aims to take action outside the box among the scope of equality, where usually they are framed under hijab religious headwear over the role of womanhood. The five member of Muslimah Collective presents diverse body of works focus on muslim way of life in Pattani. Nerissa Del Carmen Guevara creates Elegy 9: Ghost of the Sea that inspired from her experience of doing residency Kelana in Pambusuang.
Starting from 2011, YBY launched BJ Equator series project focusing on the equator regions. YBY assumes the equator as a new perspective as well as opens itself up to confront the ‘establishment’ as well the convention of such events. Equator is the starting point and the common platform to re-read the world. This year marks the fifth Edition of Biennale Jogja Equator where we work with Southeast Asia, including 52 artists and groups, from different regions and cities.
This year Biennale Jogja is curated by Akiq AW and Arham Rahman from Indonesia, and Penwadee Nophaket Manont from Thailand. They focus on the notion of “periphery” that is not merely refers to the idea of place, but most importantly is about the subject or community that live within: the subjects who were not benefited from or suffered from economically or politically within a social structure. This will touch upon the matters of power relationships, how the subject of the periphery forced to be in face to face situation with the hegemonic power wherever they exist. As issue, the notion of periphery can be extended to various problems in our everyday life: the gap of gender equality, the violence to human rights, labour and working class problems particularly related to migrant workers, discrimination based on race or religions, and many others.
With that regards, some artists present works or projects that respond to the tension of the center and the surrounding, try to offer an alternative and subversive position, to highlight the voice from the marginal. Konkhaern Manifesto occupies an abandoned space in the city of Yogyakarta to create platform for various mediums, to stage the existence of those exploited, forgotten and discplaced from overwhelming mainstream developments. Muslimah Collective aims to take action outside the box among the scope of equality, where usually they are framed under hijab religious headwear over the role of womanhood. The five member of Muslimah Collective presents diverse body of works focus on muslim way of life in Pattani. Nerissa Del Carmen Guevara creates Elegy 9: Ghost of the Sea that inspired from her experience of doing residency Kelana in Pambusuang.
