Kedai Kebun Forum (KKF) collaborate with Collective Stopmotion Studio in Yogyakarta, gang bang yoi and Tika Savitri (as Script Writer) in an art project tittled :

/ Meresap di Kedai Kebun /

This project is about respond the KKF Gallery into a story line which will be applied into stopmotion animation video.

This project will begin on 1 March – 9 April 2012
and will be exhibited on 9 – 28 April 2012
At KKF Gallery

Short Profil of Tika Savitri

Tika Savitri, a woman who was born in Surakarta, 1992, is still studying at Cultural Anthropology, Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta. Her hobby and interest in writing are presented in research and observation’s articles, fictions, child stories, and drawing illustration as you can see at her blog ‘sirkuskelilingku.blogspot.com‘

Short Profile of Gang Bang Yoi

Released in Jogjakarta, 2010

Gangbang’s Comrades:
- Fida Irawanto
- Ign Loyola Aryo
- Ign Ade

Group Exhibitions :
2011     “Crop Cycle”, Galeri Canna, Jakarta, Indonesia

“Silent One Minute Films” for an Urban Public Toronto Urban Film Festival, Toronto,         Canada

“9th Mumia” Mostra Udigrudi Mundial De Animacao, Humberto Mauro Cinema-Palace of     Arts, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

VII Annual Open International Festival of Multimedia Art “Multomograf”, Vologda City,         Russia

Workshop :
2010     Doctor Knows Good “Lion’s Pride”, Animation Project with Arnold Zwanenburg,  workshop at Papermoon Puppet Studio, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Introduction

Meresap di Kedai Kebun | Seep at Kedai Kebun
Stop Motion Project; “Fin”

Ignatius Ade and Fida Irawanto were united by one thing, their interest on little and detail things. “Detail is the devil”, and to them, this devil is interesting. The Project “Meresap di Kedai Kebun” | Seep  in Kedai Kebun, started with the residency, where KKF provided space for those two artists, working at the gallery, and then moved to office room which was changed into impromptu animation studio. KKF also facilitated the meeting with a young writer, who worked on the script. Actually, this kind of work collaboration was not the first time for KKF, because KKF had done the same things for the previous projects.

They worked hard for many days; making figures, arranging the frame for the clay, making the background setting, and ended by shooting pictures for millions times inside a black cloth covered room to get the sense of density. In that room, they brought to live the tiny things that they had made before. Stop motion is an exhausted way in making animation (even actually, there is no easy way in making animation). However, this method suits them. Fida is a reliable sculptor, and since the very beginning, he is interested in tiny things. While Ade, he is a flop semi-electronic musician, who obsessed with anxious music. And those are coupled with a script made by young blogger, Tika Savitri.

These three people formed a bizarre collaboration; two weird guys and a young woman who still confuse in forming her own identity.

Gang Bang Yoi is “an animation company”, which runs by Ign. Loyola Aryo, and those two weird guys. It was built in the “self-taught” spirit. They never learn on how get to know this media formally. They are using lots of used materials. It is impossible to buy new materials; first, because those are not sold in the store, and second the price are too expensive. Animations using these used materials do not make their works mediocre. The “lacking” is not shown; it only shows the optimism of used materials. It is a typical work method of the fringes, the people who commonly see a half-full glass, anxious-optimistic-people.

Seep at Kedai Kebun is their first project which is exhibited. Previously, they made animation works in the terms of competition or job order. In the context of exhibition, animation should be attempted using different approach. It is not only played in a television box, but also needed to be make-up. Animation is just small parts of presentation at the gallery; the other thing that matters is also the correlation between the animations and the space itself. In the next exhibition, it also will be showed their working process. The animation sets, notes, and sketches. This exhibition will show a month collaboration efforts. So the gallery will not only show the works, but also its crumbs.

The goal of the exhibition this time is to show the variety of media, which seems slowly gone from the visual arts’ mapping in Yogyakarta. We are trapped in the casket of paintings on canvas. Slowly, the visual arts of Yogyakarta are paraded into a shallow grave, which smelled the odour of the carcass. The role of non-mainstream gallery, such as Kedai Kebun Forum, is on its alternative ideas. KKF never has commercial tendency, so KKF is easy-going in accommodating such process-oriented and experimental works.

Hence forward, we hope that we could give a little contribution for the arts discourse in Yogyakarta. Hopefully, Gang Bang Yoi is not gang-banged yet from the arts market. It’s a pity; they are still young and inexperienced.

Tika Savitri, a young girl who was born in Surakarta 1992, is still studying at Cultural Anthropology, Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta. She falls in love in writing, and she poured into her blog, www.sirkuskelilingku.blogspot.com. She was finally chosen to be the writer in this project through audition. Ign. Ade and Fida Irawanto, both are graduated from Fine Art Department, Indonesia Institute of Arts, Yogyakarta in 2010 and 2008. Further information about their other projects, check it out at www.gangbangyoi.blogspot.com.

This exhibition, as the result of residency, will last from 9 until 28 April 2012. Kedai Kebun Forum open everyday, from 11:00 am – 11:00 pm, except on Tuesday, we close.

Agung Kurniawan
Direktur Artistik Kedai Kebun Forum