ISCP Talk
February 11, 2020, 6:30–8pm

LIR in Conversation: Nothing Permanent on a Moving Ground

Mira Asriningtyas and Dito Yuwono, co-founders of LIR Space—ISCP’s current institution-in-residence—will speak about LIR as an institution in flux and their long-term project 900mdpl, which is the genesis of a temporary community museum.

900mdpl is a biennial site-specific art project initiated by LIR in Kaliurang, an aging historical resort village located in a close proximity to Mount Merapi, an active volcano in Indonesia. Aware of the instability of nature, LIR has initiated plans for a transient community museum based on 900mdpl that can easily be moved from one place to another. This museum aims to preserve artworks commissioned by LIR in Kaliurang, as well as field notes and publications, while fostering intergenerational knowledge.

Mira Asriningtyas works as a curator and writer in Yogyakarta. In 2013, Asriningtyas was chosen as one of the curators for the Young Curator Forum of Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta. That same year, she did a residency and research program at 98B COLLABoratory, Manila. She was also selected to be part of the Young Curators Workshop by the Japan Foundation and the 4A Curators’ Intensive 2014 in 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney. In 2016-17, she participated in the De Appel Curatorial Programme. Asriningtyas is especially interested in conceptually-driven projects, presenting the process of making art, and combining different academic backgrounds and disciplines. She regularly publishes in magazines and catalogs.

Dito Yuwono works as a visual artist and curator in Yogyakarta. His artistic practice varies between photography, mix-media installation, video, and performance. Yuwono is especially interested in working with communities and recollecting memories to find the link between memory-citizen-history. In the past five years, he participated in numerous residencies as part of his artistic practice, such as 98B COLLABoratory, Philippines; The Northern Center for Contemporary Art, Australia; Ruang Rupa, Jakarta; and Village Video Festival, Jatiwangi Art Factory, Indonesia; among others. Some of his latest projects are The Memories of Unidentified Experience, KKF, Yogyakarta, 2014; Recollecting Memories: Tukang Foto Keliling, Kaliurang, Yogyakarta, 2017 and Ruang Rupa, Jakarta, 2015; and Geography of Here and There, NCCA – Darwin, Australia, 2016.

This program is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; New York City Council Member for the 33rd District Stephen T. Levin; New York City Council Member for the 34th District Antonio Reynoso; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

6:30–8pm

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Fyerool Darma, Mati, Kita Bersatu Lagi (In Death, We Meet Again), 2019, HD video, 5:48 min. Commissioned by LIR Space

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

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Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

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January 28–August 28, 2020

Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations: LIR at ISCP

Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations: LIR at ISCP is temporarily closed to the public until further notice. To screen videos of the exhibition’s public programs, visit our Facebook Videos page here. For installation views of the exhibition, visit our Facebook album here.

ISCP has hosted an annual institution-in-residence since 2011. This kind of residency was initiated to support cultural exchange by bringing an international perspective to a local context. This year, ISCP has invited LIR Space, a Yogyakarta-based independent arts institute. LIR will be taking over the second floor gallery of ISCP from January 28 through August 28, 2020 and will present an exhibition and a series of public programs during this time.

LIR Space was established in 2011 by Mira Asriningtyas, a curator and writer, and Dito Yuwono, an artist; the institution’s program ranges from exhibition laboratories and research-based art projects to public programs, residencies, and alternative art education platforms. LIR’s projects are characterized by multidisciplinary collaboration and performative exhibitions, fostering continuous transgenerational transmission of knowledge, memory, and history. Since 2017, LIR has been working on a long-term site-specific project titled 900mdpl in the founders’ hometown of Kaliurang, Indonesia—an aging resort village under an active volcano—with the aim of preserving collective memory.

The project at ISCP, Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations is an adaptation of 900mdpl. LIR invites artists every two years to undertake fieldwork in Kaliurang, resulting in solo projects at various sites throughout the village. Their projects are later reinstalled together in a temporary museum of oral history as a prototype for the future MUKKA (Community Museum of Kaliurang) envisioned by LIR. Selected artworks from this ongoing project will be presented at ISCP alongside additional new work by local artists from Kaliurang. At ISCP, LIR’s intervention will create an expansive portrait of the landscape, people and society of Kaliurang, by focusing on subjects such as botanical specimens, alternative histories of Dutch colonization, traumatic memory, national identity, culinary heritage, social space and storytelling.

Artists included in the exhibition are Edita Atmaja, Ibnu Banu Harli, Ahmad Barokah, Lala Bohang, Arief Budiman, Fyerool Darma, Paoletta Holst & Brigita Murti, Mella Jaarsma, Kelompok Fotografi Kaliurang, Agung Kurniawan, Jompet Kuswidananto, Maryanto, Dimaz Maulana, Anggun Priambodo, Mark Salvatus, Yudha Sandy and Rara Sekar.

Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; New York City Council Member for the 33rd District Stephen T. Levin; New York City Council Member for the 34th District Antonio Reynoso; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

Opening Reception: Jan 28, 2020, 6–8pm

Open Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12–6pm

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Rara Sekar, Buku Resep Kaliurang (Kaliurang Recipe Book) and Tanganan (A Cook’s Hand), both 2019, photobook and photography on canvas, dimensions variable

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
January 14, 2020, 6:30–8pm

Artists at Work: Habby Osk and Zai Nomura

Habby Osk will present her past and current projects, including her Anchor and Sling sculpture series, and the photography project Snap. Osk creates sculptures and photographic work which test the limits of balance and stability using gravity and force —referencing impermanence and the contingency of an action—to capture the moment of stillness before a looming collapse or durational transformation.

Zai Nomura will present recent projects such as Soul Reclaim Device and Still Life which lie between sculpture and photography. He will also introduce his new major participatory project about loss and grief, which will take place for the next year throughout the United States.

This program is supported, in part, by Bunkacho – Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan; Hartfield Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); The Artists’ Salaries, The Icelandic Centre for Research; The Icelandic Visual Artists Copyright Association; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

6:30–8pm

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Participating Residents

Zai Nomura

Habby Osk

Zai Nomura, Soul Reclaim Device (A portrait of my departed sister), 2018, water tank, water, inkjet printer, and computer, 86 × 40 × 35 in. (218.44 × 101.6 × 88.9 cm)