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Equator Symposium 2014 the One and the Many: Ethics and Aesthetics in Practice in 21St Century Democracy EQUATOR SYMPOSIUM 2014 THE ONE AND THE MANY: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN PRACTICE IN 21ST CENTURY DEMOCRACY 17 - 18 November 2014 SEKOLAH PASCASARJANA GEDUNG LENGKUNG (5TH FLOOR) GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY, YOGYAKARTA 4 FOREWORD Yustina Neni Director, Yogyakarta Biennale Foundation Will we be left behind by the world if we take a little longer to drink a cup of tea? Why must we know everything, if knowing you and your friends already makes me feel like I’m chasing the clock? I need a cup of tea made from much more than just a tea- bag that looks like the pads I use when I’m menstruating. A young man from America has indeed discovered a fast and enjoyable way for us to get to know each other, greet each other and speak to our friends. But are there not times when we really want to look at someone and face them, when we’re falling in love or when we’re giving up hope? Or when I want you to tell me off, and give me a recipe to dry my palms, which are always sweaty when we shake hands? The young American has now exceeded the Finlandian jargon of “Connecting People,” which once accompanied the pleasure of drinking tea, over 15 years ago. The Almighty Lord lives in the shadow of speed. After Steve Jobs moved into His apartments, I imagine He and Mr Jobs opening a new training-course for young angels. Not all the young angels are happy with their Lord’s idea. Two or three angels who are enjoying their tea say “Lord, we don’t want to do a course with Mr Jobs. Please, just give us analogue 5 jobs. Haven’t you seen the advertisements optimistic small step, with a desire to seek from Malaysia that say ‘Everyone can Fly?’” and collect as many geniuses as possible (At the same time a professor from America from around the equator, to tell us about wrote an email to us: “I got cheap tickets!” the events and discoveries particular to their We were just as happy for the professor as he region. I am sure the tea provided at this was, and we sipped our non-tea-bag-tea with meeting does not come from a tea bag, but even more pleasure). do we need to know if it has been concocted with frangipani flowers? If so, then of course “You see Boss, that planet is becoming more that is a special act of sabotage that should be dangerous and Mr Jobs is just making it respected. The method of serving is perhaps easier and apparently more fun,” continued less than pleasant. the young angels – fans of slow movement – chorusing in harmony, “What’s so attractive Such is my introduction. about sinning with the tips of your fingers?” Finally, I represent the Yogyakarta Biennale The Almighty Lord of Shadows said crossly, Foundation, expressing our deep thanks to “Hey, you guys! You philistines! What’s so Dr G. R. Lono Simatupang MA, Chair of the ‘new’ about what you just said? Hasn’t it Pengkajian Seni Pertunjukan dan Seni Rupa always been this way, we’ve always used our (PSPSR – Performing Arts and Visual Arts fingers and a shake or a nod to punish or Studies Program) at Gadjah Mada University, reward humanity? Get out of here! Remind for his conceptual and material co-operation those tea drinkers that the tea they’re so and assistance. Thanks go also to all of proud of is mixed with frangipani flowers the ranks of the Director and Staff of the from the cemetery.” Postgraduate School of the Gadjah Mada University, who have helped this event take The two or three angels grumbled amongst place smoothly. The Yogyakarta Biennale themselves, “Who are the philistines? Doesn’t Foundation is supported by the Yogyakarta He drink tea from sunflower seeds? He used Special District’s Office of Culture. to drink tea from blueberries, before that He was brewing lotus, and before that it Please enjoy meeting in person, on the was a brew of cinammon and roots? He’d ground. Is there something we should be brew anything and call it tea. Our Lord drinks seeking? I’m not sure. concoctions that other people use to bath in.” Respected ladies and gentleman, today and tomorrow, the 17th and 18th of November 2014, are special days for us, the Yogyakarta Biennale Foundation. I represent the Yogyakarta Biennale Foundation in expressing our pride, respect, and enormous gratitude to you for accepting our invitation, giving up your time and your resources to join us here, at the Equator Symposium, to share your expertise, your achievements, and all the unique experiences that you have collectively gained. Let us introduce the “Equator Symposium” as an 6 FOREWORD Dr G. R. Lono Lastoro Simatupang MA discover new concepts and new energies for Performing Arts and Visual Arts Study the creation of cross-disciplinary practice and Program, Postgraduate School of UGM in each field of practice. Chair of Study Program We express our thanks to the Yogyakarta Always, creative activity permeates through Biennale Foundation, who have put their the lives of all mankind. The desire to create faith in this co-operation with the Performing and re-create is not the exclusive perogative Arts and Visual Arts Study Program at the of the arts (whatever one understands that Postgraduate School of UGM. Our thanks to be) but also the driving motor of everyday also go to the Director of the Postgraduate life, science, technology, economics and even School for the support they have given to the religion and government. By preserving, implementation of this symposium. To all the developing and utilising this creativity delegates from friendly nations, speakers, art humankind can actively create humanity. practitioners, art observers, the organisers and the participants in the symposium, we If at this time the arts is experiencing a express our thanks for your contribution in separation from other fields of life, that is realising the aspirations of the Performing more a product of the history of conceits Arts and Visual Arts Study Program and also of specialisation and working methods, the goals of the Postgraduate School of UGM rather than the principles that are the basis in general. We hope this co-operation will of the living practices of humankind. This continue, and bear fruit in diverse cross- separation encounters one of its most disciplinary applications, for the sake of important moments in the phrase “discipline” manifesting a more dignified humanity. that is used in science, everyday life, religion and government. Amongst the other fields of life, art is one that percieves “discipline” more loosely for the sake of broadening the creative field. The Equator Symposium theme “The One and the Many: Practices in Ethics and Aesthetics in Democracy in the 21st Century” is a step towards re-introducing practitioners in diverse fields of life, blurring the conceits of specialisation in an approach that is more holistic. In this way, it is hoped that inter- disciplinary dialogue will occur in order to 7 and exchange perspectives. We will also be displaying various forms of documentation EQUATOR and archives to complement this. These are SYMPOSIUM #1 the three main components of ES 2014. Specifically, ES 2014 intends to explore the 2014 issue of the roles and involvements of the one and the many; citizens, in their role as citizens in the community, and in the state. This is of course connected directly to the Enin Supriyanto changes in the shifting roles and relationships Project Officer, Equator Symposium of citizens who have been shaped by their experience of democracy in Indonesia over the last decade or so. Of course, this is also associated with the different experiences of The Equator Symposium (ES) is part of the democracy for different states and peoples in Yogyakarta Biennale Foundation agenda the equatorial zone. At the same time, we are of activities, alongside the Biennale Jogja/ also experiencing various forms of completely Equator that has been running since 2011. open activity, with individuals and citizens This symposium is designed to be a meeting as active actors, which is enabled by access point for experts, academics, and artists to contemporary information technology to exchange opinions and information, so that involves many in one communicative that they can map various aspects of the interaction on a global scale. socio-cultural issues that occur around us at community, national and global levels. As in ES is an opportunity for observing and the Biennale Jogja, the scope of the ES’s co- understanding the diverse symptoms of operation is also international, global, with its change, while maintaining a critical attitude to primary attention focussed on the region of what is occuring, and projecting the various nations and people along the equatorial line. possibilities of its impact on the future. We expect that the Equator Symposium will ES was officially launched and publicised become an arena for useful encounters, not alongside the Biennale Jogja XII – Equator#2, only for the participants involved directly, but on the 19th November 2013. This event was also for the academic community and those populated with public lectures, discussion actors in socio-cultural activity in Indonesia. forms and and presented by various groups of activists with diverse activities. Drawing And in the end we hope that–as was from this experience, ES 2014 has been undertaken through the Asia-Africa designed as a forum with a broad scope. The Conference in 1995– the diverse thinking academics, experts and researchers that we and information that is pooled through this have invited to provided these critical public event will contribute to the formation of a lectures will reflect on our understanding of sturdy base for understanding, so that on that diverse examples of contemporary practice base we can implement associations across in art, cultue, socialising, politics and nations, contemporary global associations, economics.
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