Pre Event Bandung-Singapore Displaced: Video Art Exchanges Project
Bandung thrid discussion review
Tuesday, 25 October 2005

The meeting was attending with 16 local selected artists that are multidisciplinary background and 1 contributes, associated local community towards the video practice. This first meeting who's involving local resident, are discussing the base of urban project by their point of view, some of personal statement:

Reggie Aquara (Painting Student)
Urban project is center of multi conflict and culture clash. The tradition identity was construct creation near in their value, of managed and chaos as an assess characteristic. Occasionally Bandung as urban space befalls in simulacra with other urban space former inhabits.

Ben Isa (Print Making Student)
Complementary, headed for the traditional and modern characteristic. The differential of market using is particulars controlled through the city life style.

Philla Tania (Sculpture and Video Artist; member of Video Babes)
Individual as a city element, its life and active to generate a memory, imagination, that closes to subjective project?
Urban Infrastructure: Hydrant, traffic light, zebra cross, garbage and ect.

Gembi (Letters student; Member of Pemuda Electric)
Local discourse are resolve to be an alternative identifier in the role of the city, but urban border cause to feel attentive anxiety into global space.

Akbar (Letters student; Member of IF)
Reside in Bandung city; give me sense as the city Boys. The city with all locales made an individual contemplation, like in one song lyric “I'm lonely in a crowd”, and it's remedy to look for myself.

Wilman (Sculpture Student)
For me urban project is how to respond the simulacra of Bandung , similar to Reggie. Frustrating to the big sign of car police plat that interrupted me.
Water concern is my other interest as previous problem in the city and I would like to research the content of Bandung water as city water.

Tumpal (Bachelor in Mathematic)
Urban project is how inhabit tries to answer the index of life that interest me to investigate the street meaning for Bandung inhabit.

Follow-on the third meeting, the urban project as an individual project is, how artists make an effort in the direction of memory and eyes transform to the close spaces via video recorder.

Next Topic

•  Presentation from Bandung participants
•  And question, why almost of video artists when they make a video art, they always arrange it with the audio, sound, or music?

We would welcome any comments, interest, image on our discussions for development, just get in touch.

Erik M. Pauhrizi