performances with costumes within an installation of paper craft bamboo, plastic pots, brass sculptures, photographs, photo collages on Louis Vuitton's Yayoi Kusama wrapping papers, colored male briefs and paper masks, 120 minutes.
performed at Gelora Bung Karno, Jakarta, Indonesia for ARTE Indonesian Art Festival, curated by Ade Darmawan, 2014.
performed for the second time and to its entirety at The Japan Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia, curated by Abe Sjahroel, 2014.
performed by Atsushi Maruo, Maray Mayasnil, Fidelis Krus Yosua, Dendi Madiya, Ricky Unik, Ade Ceeguk and Agnes Christina.
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たけくらべ (Takekurabe) translates racial history between Indonesia and Japan by comparison of political narratives and influences from popular culture.
This project is a reconstruction of 1990s mangaka Suzue Miuchi's adaptation of たけくらべ, an 1895 Japanese novella by Higuchi Ichiyō. The work in its entirity hints of popular elements from the blatant visual references of Yayoi Kusama to subtle easter eggs relevances to works of Wei-Te Sheng, Katy Perry, Angki Purbandono and Hatsune Miku as well as an infamous Indonesian urban legend of Kolor Ijo.
Within social context, the installation and performance works enquire the evolution of racial trauma through generations of political shift and the development popular culture.