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Also-space, from hot to something else, how Indonesian art initiatives have reinvented networking, Reinaart Vanhoe

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Also-space, from hot to something else

bibliography

Reinaart Vanhoe

Onomatopee, 136

how Indonesian art initiatives have reinvented networking

This book focuses mainly on the Jakarta-based artists' initiative ruangrupa, and to a lesser degree on a number of other Indonesian artists and initiatives, as case studies of how Indonesian artists organise and manifest themselves individually as well as collectively. Although contemporary art in Indonesia is completely integrated within the global art discourse, the fundamental context of Indonesian artists is in fact quite different from that of the contemporary Western artistic practice, in which notions of individuality and "autonomy" play a key role. This perspective, at least in its current manifestation, is based on a neo-liberal worldview focused more or less entirely on the pursuit of individual success. However, what is often missing from this perspective is an awareness of local networks, and a contextual (as opposed to purely conceptual) way of thinking and acting. Indonesian artists' initiatives, on the other hand, tend to think and work from the perspective of the communities of which they are already a part

From Europe to elsewhere -- Ruangrupa, an artists' initiative from Jakarta, Indonesia -- From alternative space to also-space