Biennale Jogja, road to Yogyakarta State University. The screening of this film is a continuation of the previous trip which was successfully held at Diponegoro University, Semarang. The film, which was directed by Putri Harbie entitled “Biennale Jogja – Education & Public Art Appreciation” explores the opinions of academics regarding the relationship between art appreciation activities and teaching and learning activities. In addition, the director also interviewed program managers and participants in activities involving schools. The main question posed in this film is: How can the Jogja Biennale event become an important educational space for schools or campuses in Yogyakarta? What is the impact of art appreciation on the development of students?
This 25-minute film features the cast: Alia Swastika, Ladija Triana Dewi, Karen Hardini, Irham Nur Anshari, Tien Agustina, and Vattaya Azzahra. The film screening took place on Thursday, December 15, 2022, in the Cinema Room, Indonesian Education Museum, Yogyakarta State University, attended by 115 participants consisting of UNY Fine Arts Education Students, Lecturers, and general participants.
The screening of the documentary film was followed by an open discussion with the title Biennale Jogja Archives, Education & Public Art Appreciation with resource persons Putri Harbie (Director of the Biennale Jogja Documentary Film), Karen Hardini (Program Manager) and Dr. Hajar Pamadhi, M.A., Hons. (Art Education Specialist, Lecturer, and Curator) moderated by Kharisma Creativani (Art Education Lecturer at UNY).
In this open discussion, Putri said that documentary films are important for archiving the Biennale Jogja, which so far have rarely been made available to the public, and on this occasion, the Biennale also wants to present them in the best formats. During the process of making the film, Putri had an interesting experience that she had never had before, even though she often participated in 3 Jogja Biennale events. According to him, he was rarely able to have in-depth conversations with teachers or visitors to the Biennale. Through this opportunity, Putri has a better understanding of how outsiders view the Jogja Biennale.
Karen Hardini as Program Manager of the Jogja Biennale believes that the reason why these archives should be in highlight is that the Biennale presents educational-based spaces with a variety of rides, one of which is through Minecraft which he also took part in in 2021. At that time, Karen was one of 6 writers who passed the Asana Bina Seni program. She worked on an archive of 10 years of Biennale Jogja collaboration journeys with countries such as India, Arab, Nigeria, Brazil, and Southeast Asia in the form of games with artist Riyan Kresnandi. Karen added that the screening of this documentary was another medium after the game.
Biennale Jogja has been making breakthroughs as an important educational space for schools, campuses and academics in the art world for a long time. Karen explained about educational work with high school, vocational school teachers, elementary school students, and several years earlier they had made one kid’s corner for the Biennale Exhibition held at JNM.
One of the Biennale Jogja artists who is now a Crafts Lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts Education at UNY, Angga Sukma Permana, responded to this discussion. Angga shared his experience of participating in the 2015 Hacking Conflict Biennale. According to him, at the beginning of the Equator Biennale, he was quite surprised because he was born in the old Biennale. He also told about his work that raised the conflict that occurred in Kulon Progo, namely the Tinalah Dam Project. As a native who was born and raised there, he feels that the Jogja Biennale Exhibition can be a place to clarify this issue through his chiseled works.
This discussion event became more interesting with the presentation and presentation slides by Hajar Pamadhi. This fine arts expert explained that art is not just a human expression, art consists of 3 structures namely physical, systems and ideas. The physical structure that has so far been worked out with the concept of artistic learning in schools, then system elements such as those carried out by ARTJOG and the Jogja Biennale are included in the idea structure. According to him, the conception of this idea is very important and the Jogja Biennale tends to be ideological.
At the end of the discussion, Putri, Karen, and Hajar Pamadhi expressed their hopes for the future projection of art spaces as a means of education. Putri thought that she wanted to bring her Biennale archives so that they could be discussed in art education classes. Karen hopes that the Biennale can bring wider discourse on art education, become an exhibition space for various groups and broaden horizons. It was closed by Hajar Pamadhi who raised the words of Ki Hajar Dewantara “Ambuka Raras Angesti Wiji”, while at the same time emphasizing that art is education, education is art.
Biennale Jogja would like to thank the Fine Arts Education, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Yogyakarta State University for accepting us to be able to hold a documentary film screening, we hope that in the future we can continue to work together for better art and education in Indonesia.
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The following are some portraits of the Documentary Film Screening event “Biennale Jogja – Education & Public Art Appreciation” at Yogyakarta State University:
