Ones Who Looked at The Presence (Video Performance)

Karya ini merupakan versi video performance dari proyek seni Otty Widasari Ones Who Look at The Presence. Otty menghadirkan arsip film masa kolonial, melalui proyeksi pada layar kertas, yang dikonstruksi melalui gerak tubuh, bebunyian dan ruang. Penonton diajak untuk mengimajinasikan bagaimana performer mengkonstruksi layar melalui gerakan tubuh. Kemudian, dihadirkan proyeksi footage masa kolonial. Setelah beberapa saat, Otty membakar layar tersebut, sembari proyeksi terus berjalan hingga akhir pertunjukan.

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This work is a video performance version of her art project titled Ones Who Look at The Presence. Otty presents colonial film archives, through projections on paper screens, constructed through gestures, sounds and space. The audience is invited to imagine how performers construct the screen through body movements. Then, the projection of colonial footage is presented. After a while, Otty burned the screen, while the projection continued until the end of the show.

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ONES WHO LOOKED AT THE PRESENCE (Video Performance)

Pameran/Exhibition
Jakarta Biennale 2017

Seniman/Artist
Otty Widasari

About

Otty Widasari

(lahir di Balikpapan, 1973) merupakan lulusan Seni Murni di Institut Kesenian Jakarta (IKJ). Ia pernah kuliah di jurusan Jurnalistik Institut Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik (IISIP) Jakarta. Ia adalah seniman, penulis, sutradara filem, dan salah satu pendiri Forum Lenteng. Direktur Program Pendidikan Media Berbasis Komunitas, akumassa, dan Pemimpin Redaksi www.akumassa.org. // (b, 1973 in Balikpapan) graduated Fine Arts at Jakarta Institute of Arts (IKJ). She once studied Journalistic at Institute of Social and Political Science Jakarta (IISIP). She is an artist, writer, filmmaker, and one of the founders of Forum Lenteng. She is also program director of akumassa and Editor in Chief at www.akumassa.org.