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.900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghosts and How to Live with Them.
Kaliurang - Yogyakarta. 2022


900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghosts and How To Live with Them” is the third iteration of 900mdpl biennial site-specific project in Kaliurang – Yogyakarta. Kaliurang is an aging historical resort village 7 km away from the caldera of Mount Merapi, one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia. Kaliurang is located on an average altitude of 900 meters above the sea (in Indonesian: 900mdpl) and around 2800 inhabitants of Kaliurang today are living in an immediate vicinity with the active stratovolcano.

With awareness of the unstable force of nature and how the ground is continuously moving beneath us; the “900mdpl” project proposes a possibility to create a growing socially-engaged archive of the village and to preserve the collective memories of the people. The “900mdpl” project brings together local and international artists for a research residency and production of a new work.

The 1st edition of “900mdpl” was held in 2017 as a ‘family portrait’ of the community and the neighborhood; presenting works by Anggun Priambodo, Maryanto, Edita Atmaja, Eva Olthof, Dimaz Maulana, Dito Yuwono, Sandi Kalifadani, Simon Kentgens, and Mella Jaarsma.

The 2nd edition “900mdpl: Ghosts of a Thousand Conversations” was held in 2019 as an attempt to pinpoint the small village within the map of Indonesian history; presenting work by Paoletta Holst, Agung Kurniawan, Jomped Kuswidananto, Yudha Sandy, Arief Budiman, Lala Bohang, Rara Sekar, Mark Salvatus, Fyerool Darma, and returnee Maryanto.

The 3rd edition “900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghosts and How To Live with Them” will look upon the relationship between folklore, ghost stories, and mythology with the current ecological issues and environmental sustainability of the area. It is a response to how the landscapes of Kaliurang and around Mt.Merapi are subjected to the whims of colonizers and capitalists through tourism, over-development, exploitation of the land and extraction of its natural resources. This extractive behavior is present even if Mt.Merapi is considered as one of the two most powerful mythical kingdoms in Yogyakarta, connected through an imaginary axis with the Sultanate of Yogyakarta and mythical Queendom of the Southern Sea. Around Mt.Merapi, the ontological knowledge of Javanese cosmology used to coexist with Islamic values, tradition rooted in Hinduism and animism as a situated heritage knowledge.

Provisionally titled “900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghosts and How to Live with Them”, this edition aims to collect local beliefs, mythology, rituals, oral tradition, bedtime stories, and cautionary tales on how to behave around sacred sites that manifested as local wisdom. It will explore the decentralized polycentric knowledge that allows us to start learning back from the rooted local wisdom for ecological sustainability. The aim of this project is to stimulate and discuss the possibility of exercising folklore and mythology as a heritage knowledge of how to co-live with the non-human counterpart. It suggests not only about how to control nature but stresses the importance of maintaining an equal position of human and non-human alike.

The third edition of “900mdpl” was supposed to be held in 2021 and was postponed due to the pandemic and the rising activity/danger level of Mount Merapi. Following the cycle and adjusting to the movement of the stratovolcano, the project will be held in smaller continuous events to be presented in multiple sites at different times throughout the year of 2022.

“900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghosts and How to Live with Them” will be consisting of a visual art exhibition centered around Mount Merapi; a socially engaged artistic proposition and interventions to promote a more sustainable approach to the daily reality in Kaliurang as a tourism area; a video festival; and a series of book launches to support the continuous process of archiving the space and extend the life of the project itself. The publication will consist of contributions from artists, writers, and academics that were produced during the three editions of “900mdpl”.

The final project presentation of all artists at scattered sites around Kaliurang where a wider audience will be guided on the exhibition walking route as a spatial practice — turning the site into a space of experience. The exhibition route is chosen based on the current topic as a way to connect the different ideas brought up by artists’ solo projects and research. At the end of every walking tour, the audience will be provided with the complete whole narratives of the project.

At the end of the final iteration, a movable non-permanent community museum is open for a limited time as a prototype of the Museum of Kaliurang Community (MUKKA). The collection of the museum is growing and being built by multidisciplinary artists together with the local community through conversation, storytelling, and oral tradition to foster transmission of transgenerational knowledge within the village. Previously, the prototype of the movable non-permanent museum has been presented as “Museum of a Thousand Conversations” in Kaliurang (2019) and New York (2020).

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900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghosts and How To Live with Them (2022)

Artistic Director | Direktur Artistik:
LIR

Curator | Kurator:  
Mira Asriningtyas

Exhibition | Pameran: 
Cycle 1: June 24 - 26, 2022 | Cycle 2: July 29 - 31, 2022

Artist for Cycle 1 | Seniman Putaran 1
Ahmad Barokah (ID) | Dito Yuwono (ID) | Eva Olthof (NL) | Fitri DK (ID) | Ibnu Banu Harli (ID) | Maryanto (ID) | Mark Salvatus (PH/JP) | Mella Jaarsma (ID) | Nurhasan Hawari (ID) | Rachmad Afandi (ID) | Sutarman (ID) | Suwarto (ID) | Kelompok Gambar Merapi Siring Kidul (Ahmad Barokah, Anggara Daniawan, Fitri DK, Ibnu Banu Harli, Lulus Boli, Maryanto, Mella Jaarsma, Nurhasan Hawari, Rachmad Afandi, Suwarto, Sutarman, Wimo Ambala Bayang)

Artist for Cycle 2 | Seniman Putaran 2:
Ahmad Barokah (ID) | Arum Dayu - Jim Allen Abel (ID) | Dito Yuwono (ID) | Fitri DK (ID) | Ibnu Banu Harli (ID) | Jompet Kuswidananto (ID) | Mark Salvatus (PH/JP) | Maryanto (ID) | Nindityo Adipurnomo (ID) | Nurhasan Hawari (ID) | Rachmad Afandi (ID) | Sutarman (ID) | Suwarto (ID) | Wimo Ambala Bayang (ID)

Publication | Publikasi:
Paoletta Holst (BE / NL), Brigita Murti (ID), Mira Asriningtyas (ID) | Rara Sekar (ID) | Adam Bobette (UK) | Dito Yuwono (ID) |

Location | Lokasi:
Scattered around Kaliurang* | tersebar di berbagai lokasi di Kaliurang


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 . The Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations. 

[Our Museum, Taiwan, 2022]


“The Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations” was exhibited at the 2nd floor of “Crossing Ecotones- Seeing Mountain as Not Mountain” exhibition in Our Museum - Taipei. Presenting works by Merapi Siring Kidul artist collective (Ibnu Banu Harli, Nur Hawari, Ahmad Barokah, Sutarman, Suwarto) as well as Mark Salvatus, Maryanto, Mella Jaarsma, Dito Yuwono, Wimo Ambala Bayang and Fitri DK.







. The Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations .

[IFI LIP - Yogyakarta, 2022]


The Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations is an initiative of the Museum of Kaliurang Community (MUKKA) that is created as an attempt to archive the space and as a continuous knowledge transmission of trans-generational memory. This museum started as a collection of works from the 900mdpl biennial exhibition in Kaliurang starting in 2017. Pieces of community history are collected through memories, conversations, and stories as a concept of oral tradition and another form of a ‘museum’. The location is always moving and acts as a temporary museum, it works as an illustration of how the ground is continuously moving beneath us. Another version of the museum has been exhibited in Kaliurang (2019) and ISCP - New York (2020). This time, the museum displays several works previously exhibited in the third iteration of 900mdpl: Genealogy of Ghost and How to Live with Them (2022) which aim at the relationship between human, non-human, and the environment around it.














.900mdpl: Hantu-Hantu Seribu Percakapan.
(Ghosts of A Thousand Conversations)
[Kaliurang - Yogyakarta, 2019]


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900mdpl is an extensive site-specific art project in Kaliurang, a village on the southern slope of Merapi—one of the most active volcano in Indonesia. The village was a station hill for Dutch geologists’ to closely monitor the volcanic activity during colonial period. In 1923, it continues to be a popular resort area due to its milder temperature and relish its heyday until the end of the New Order era. Located 7 km away from the crater with average altitude of 900 meters above the sea, around 2800 inhabitants today are living in an immediate vicinity with the active volcano. 

900mdpl is projected to be a biennial platform of a site-specific art project, offering space of possibilities while assisting on preservation and transmission of transgenerational memory. The project’s primary aim is to create an alternative archive of the site by collecting myth, local wisdom, stories, and alternative history of the site through the memory of the people. 900mdpl consists of two parts: first, the residency period resulting in different solo projects by each of the artists; second, the project presentation of all artists at scattered sites around Kaliurang where wider audience will be guided on the exhibition walking route as a spatial practice—turning the site into a space of experience. 

The first edition of 900mdpl was presented in November 1 – 18, 2017 as an introduction to the site as well as a ‘time capsule’ about the inhabitants with projects by Anggun Priambodo, Maryanto, Edita Atmaja, Eva Olthof, Dimaz Maulana, Dito Yuwono, Sandi Kalifadani, Simon Kentgens, and Mella Jaarsma. The documentation of the previous edition can be found in www.900mdpl.com 

The second edition titled “900mdpl: Hantu-Hantu Seribu Percakapan” (Ghosts of a Thousand Conversations) will be presented in October 18 to 27, 2019. The title refers to the research method using a great many conversations around the village with elder members of the society, focusing on what happened in Kaliurang during the timeline of the bigger historical moments of Indonesia. Ghost is often used to normalize things that yet to be understood, voice unheard, multitude of temporalities that remains as an echo of the past and ghost that haunt the building. 

Time will be transformed into space using the route choice exploring the area where the first major street were built to connect the city of Yogyakarta to Kaliurang in 1923, completed with public transportation plan and leisure facilities at that time. In 1925, some of the firsts bungalows (referred to as ‘ngloji’ by the local inhabitants) are ready to used by the royal family or Dutch leisure seekers. The term ‘ngloji’ refers to area where ‘loji’—big concrete colonial building or offices that are different from Indonesian vernacular buildings take place. 

The walk will start from the site where delegation of Indonesia and Three-State Commission assembled resulting in ‘Notulen Kaliurang’ in January 13, 1948. The walk will be continued along the ‘Ngloji’ area where some of the oldest buildings remain and the artists’ works are presented. The second edition will be presenting projects by Paoletta Holst (BE/NL), Agung Kurniawan (ID), Jomped Kuswidananto (ID), Yudha Sandy (ID), Arief Budiman (ID), Lala Bohang (ID), Rara Sekar (ID), Mark Salvatus (PH/JP), Fyerool Darma (SG), and returnee Maryanto (ID).

Aside from the reader, the afterlife of the previous projects will be presented in a transient community museum and a small center of contemporary art will be made the following year to support the continuous process of archiving the space.




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900mdpl adalah proyek seni site-specific di Kaliurang, sebuah desa yang berjarak 25km dari Yogyakarta di lereng selatan Gunung Merapi. Desa ini dulunya merupakan pangkalan bagi ahli geologi Belanda untuk mengawasi secara dekat aktivitas gunung Merapi selama masa kolonial. Pada tahun 1923, daerah ini mulai menjadi daerah wisata populer karena suhunya yang sejuk dan menikmati masa kejayaan hingga akhir era Orde Baru. Berjarak 7 km dari kawah gunung Merapi dengan ketinggian rata-rata 900 meter di atas permukaan laut, sekitar 2.800 penduduk saat ini hidup berdekatan dengan gunung berapi yang aktif tersebut.

900mdpl diproyeksikan sebagai landasan proyek seni site-specific dua tahunan, menawarkan berbagai ruang-ruang kemungkinan sambil mendukung kelestarian dan persebaran memori lintas generasi.  Tujuan utama proyek ini adalah untuk membuat arsip alternatif dari situs-situs terkait dengan mengumpulkan mitos, kearifan lokal, kisah, dan sejarah alternatif dari tempat tersebut melalui ingatan orang-orang yang hidup di dalamnya. 900mdpl terdiri dari dua bagian: pertama, masa residensi yang nantinya menghasilkan berbagai proyek tunggal yang berbeda bagi tiap-tiap senimannya; kedua, presentasi proyek dari semua seniman di berbagai tempat di sekitar Kaliurang yang membawa pengunjung lebih luas berjalan melewati rute perjalanan pameran sebagai bentuk praktik spasial– mengubah tempat menjadi sebuah ruang pengalaman.

Edisi pertama 900mdpl diselenggarakan pada 1 - 18 November 2017 sebagai pengenalan tempat sekaligus 'kapsul waktu' tentang penduduk dengan proyek oleh Anggun Priambodo, Maryanto, Edita Atmaja, Eva Olthof, Dimaz Maulana, Dito Yuwono , Sandi Kalifadani, Simon Kentgens, dan Mella Jaarsma. Dokumentasi edisi sebelumnya dapat ditemukan di www.900mdpl.com

Edisi kedua berjudul “900mdpl: Hantu-Hantu Seribu Percakapan” (Ghosts of a Thousand Conversations) akan dipresentasikan pada 18 - 27 Oktober 2019. Judul tersebut merujuk pada metode penelitian yang menggunakan percakapan-percakapan dengan para tetua masyarakat di sekitar desa, dengan fokus pada apa yang terjadi di Kaliurang dalam lini masa sejarah Indonesia yang lebih panjang. Hantu selalu digunakan untuk menormalisasi sesuatu yang belum terpahami, suara-suara yang tak terdengar, kumpulan kefanaan yang masih menjadi gema masa lalu dan makhluk halus yang menempati suatu bangunan. Waktu menjelma menjadi ruang dengan menggunakan pilihan rute perjalanan untuk menjelajahi area dimana jalan raya pertama dibuat yang menghubungkan kota Yogyakarta dan Kaliurang di tahun 1923, lengkap dengan rencana fasilitas transportasi publik dan hiburan. Di tahun 1925, setidaknya terdapat 12 bungalo pertama (dikenal dengan nama ‘ngloji’ oleh penduduk sekitar) dan digunakan oleh keluarga kerajaan atau wisatawan Belanda. Istilah ‘ngloji’ digunakan untuk merujuk pada area dibangunnya ‘loji’ – bangunan beton besar atau kantor warisan kolonial yang berbeda dari bangunan Indonesia yang biasa digunakan oleh warga lokal.

Titik mula pameran akan dimulai dari situs delegasi Indonesia dan Komisi Tiga Negara berkumpul dan menghasilkan 'Notulen Kaliurang' pada 13 Januari 1948. Perjalanan akan dilanjutkan di sepanjang daerah 'Ngloji' tempat beberapa bangunan tertua masih berdiri dan karya para seniman ditampilkan.

Edisi kedua akan diselenggarakan oleh LIR dan dikuratori oleh Mira Asriningtyas. Para seniman yang akan mempresentasikan proyek mereka adalah Paoletta Holst (BE / NL), Agung Kurniawan (ID), Jomped Kuswidananto (ID), Yudha Sandi (ID), Arief Budiman (ID), Lala Bohang (ID), Rara Sekar (ID), Mark Salvatus (PH / JP), Fyerool Darma (SG), dan Maryanto (ID) yang kembali bekerja dalam proyek ini.

Selain bacaan, karya akhir dari proyek sebelumnya akan disajikan kembali dalam sebuah museum sementara dan sebuah rintisan pusat seni kontemporer yang akan dibuat pada tahun berikutnya untuk mendukung proses berkelanjutan dalam usaha menciptakan arsip atas ruang.
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900mdpl: Ghosts of a Thousand Conversations

Artistic Director | Direktur Artistik:
LIR

Curator | Kurator:  
Mira Asriningtyas

Artists | Seniman: 
Paoletta Holst (BE / NL) | Agung Kurniawan (ID) | Jomped Kuswidananto (ID) | Yudha Sandi (ID) | Arief Budiman (ID) | Lala Bohang (ID) | Rara Sekar (ID) | Mark Salvatus (PH / JP) | Fyerool Darma (SG) | Maryanto (ID) 

Exhibition | Pameran: 
18 - 27 October, 2019 [10.00 – 16.00]

Location | Lokasi:
Scattered sited around Kaliurang* | tersebar di berbagai lokasi di Kaliurang












.900mdpl.

[Kaliurang - Yogyakarta, 2017]

.en.

900mdpl is an extensive site-specific art project in Kaliurang, a small village on the southern slope of an active volcano, Mt.Merapi. Kaliurang is an hour away from the city of Yogyakarta with average altitude of 900 meters above sea level. Historically, it was built as a resort area for Dutch geologist during colonial period.  It continues to be a popular resort area due to its milder temperature and relish its heyday until the end of the New Order era.

900mdpl aims to respond to the space, collect stories, and revisit local wisdoms while promoting on knowledge exchange and community engagements with the locals through collaborative projects. 900mdpl consists of two parts: first, the residency period resulting in different solo projects by each of the artists; second, the grand project presentation of all artists at scattered sites around Kaliurang where wider audience will be guided on the exhibition walking route. In this exhibition, walking is a crucial method of spatial practice. For the artists, walking is the research methodology in developing their artistic projects. For the audience, walking is the act of activating the place and turns it into a space of experience: weaving together the narration in each sites presented by the artist.  900mdpl is projected to be a seed of a continuous platform of a site-specific art project, offering a space of possibilities. 

During the exhibition, a map and weekly guided walking tours with the curator and artists are provided for the audience. A series of workshops and public programs presented by the collaborating artists will also be available for the local community during the two weeks of the exhibition.


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900mdpl adalah sebuah proyek seni site-specific berkelanjutan yang bertempat di Kaliurang, sebuah desa kecil di lereng Selatan kaki Gunung Merapi yang masih aktif. Kaliurang dapat ditempuh dalam satu jam dari pusat kota Yogyakarta dan memiliki ketinggian rata-rata 900 meter di atas permukaan laut (900mdpl). Menurut sejarahnya, Kaliurang dibangun bagi para geolog Belanda sebagai area peristirahatan dalam masa kolonial. Selanjutnya, Kaliurang menjadi tujuan peristirahatan yang populer karena udaranya yang sejuk dan menikmati masa kejayaan yang berlangsung hingga masa orde baru berakhir. 

900mdpl bertujuan untuk merespon ruang, mengumpulkan cerita, dan kembali mengunjungi kearifan lokal serta melakukan pertukaran pengetahuan dan melibatkan komunitas warga lokal melalui proyek-proyek yang sifatnya kolaboratif. 900mdpl terbagi menjadi dua bagian: pertama, masa residensi yang menghasilkan proyek seni tunggal dari masing-masing seniman; kedua, presentasi karya para seniman secara bersamaan di beberapa lokasi berbeda di Kaliurang yang bisa dinikmati dengan berjalan kaki.  Proses berjalan kaki merupakan bagian yang krusial dalam pameran kali ini. Bagi para seniman, berjalan kaki menjadi metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam membuat proyek artistik mereka. Bagi pengunjung, jalan kaki menjadi sikap partisipasi yang kemudian berubah menjadi sebuah ruang pengalaman untuk secara aktif menjalin narasi antar ruang dari masing-masing seniman. 900mdpl diproyeksikan sebagai sebuah benih untuk proyek seni site-specific berkelanjutan di tahun-tahun berikutnya, menawarkan ruang dengan berbagai kemungkinan. 

Selama pameran berlangsung, peta dan tur jalan kaki mingguan dengan kurator dan seniman disediakan bagi pengunjung. Rangkaian workshop dan program untuk publik akan diselenggarakan dengan seniman kolaborator untuk komunitas lokal selama masa dua minggu pameran berlangsung. 



900mdpl

Curator | Kurator:  
Mira Asriningtyas

Artists | Seniman: 
Anggun Priambodo | Dimaz Maulana | Dito Yuwono | Edita Atmaja |Eva Olthof | Maryanto | Mella Jaarsma | Sandi Kalifadani | Simon Kentgens

Collaborator for public programs | Kolaborator Program Publik: 
Alwirata Kusuma | Arief Budiman | Azizi Almajid | Fitro Dizianto | Viki Restina Bella

Exhibition | Pameran: 
1-18 November 2017 [10.00 – 16.00]

Location | Lokasi:
Scattered sited around Kaliurang* | tersebar di berbagai lokasi di Kaliurang

Satellite Program:
"900mdpl Walker Information Centre" by Azizi Almajid
1 – 25 November 2017 
at LIR Space | Jl. Anggrek 1/33 Baciro – Yogyakarta


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