The 6th Asia Fiber Art Exhibition

The 6th Asia Fiber Art Exhibition
4 – 14 September 2008
Bentara Budaya Jakarta, Indonesia

The 6th Asian Fiber Art Exhibition aims to explore the consciousness of Asian fiber artists toward the problems faced by their own cultures and connections to recent issues such as globalization,gender equality, democracy, nature preservation, global warming, and other subjects related to the tensions between tradition and modernity through creative expressions in fiber media..

This year theme is: TRADITION INTO MODERNITY

Tradition has a variety of definitions. One of those definitions, the most commonly understood, is tradition as a continuity of culture passed on from generation to generation. Based on this definition, culture, aside from being continuous, is also considered static, constant, repetitive, non-inventive, related to the past, and perching as an imperishable permanent power, even though the definition of 'traditional' is recently being discussed in discourses on modernity and experiencing continuous development of its meaning and interpretation.

Tradition is evolutionary, moving along with changes in environment caused by various internal and external factors. Internal factors include rationalization, correction, and imagination coming from human creativity and thinking in responding to potentials contained in the tradition itself. External factors include encounters among different traditions and changes in conditions and situations of the environment. Encounters among different traditions refer to the confrontation between foreign traditions and local traditions, causing syncretism of traditions as the form of change of the initial local culture. Changes in conditions and situations of the environment, whether they happen in spiritual, material, or social contexts, are closely related to demographic, technological, and economic progresses, emergence of more potent new traditions, ideals constructed by public figures, and exploitation of resources for the well-being.

For those reasons, tradition exists within a dialectical relation with modernity and, therefore, it has its inventive contents as a product which is produced according to necessities. In short, tradition is accommodative to changes.

This way of thinking is the starting point for the production of fiber art works.. On the one hand, fiber art implies the inheritance of past values and continuity, while on the other hand it exists within modernity. Here the fiber art thrives and develops from a variety of importance motivated by demands from modernity.

By taking the matter into account, the 6th Asian Fiber Art Exhibition aims to explore the consciousness of Asian fiber artists toward the problems faced by their own cultures and their connections to recent issues such as globalization, gender equality, democracy, nature preservation, global warming, and other subjects related to the tensions between tradition and modernity through creative expressions in fiber media.

OPENING CEREMONY: SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 AT 18.30 WIB BY MADAM MIRANDA GULTOM.

A. EXHIBITION

Date: September 4-14, 2008

Venue: BENTARA BUDAYA JAKARTA (BBJ)

Jl. Palmerah Selatan 17, Jakarta 10270, Indonesia

B. SYMPOSIUM

Theme: TRADITION INTO MODERNITY

Speaker: Kenji Sato (Japan) & Josephine 'Obin' Komara (Indonesia)

Date: September 6, 2008 at 15.00-18.00 WIB

Venue: Bentara Budaya Jakarta, Hall B (2nd floor)

ARTISTS :

CHINA XIAO HONG ZHENG, WANG QINGZHEN, JIN YANG, HONG JUAN ZHANG, WU QINGLIN

INDONESIA BIRANUL ANAS, YUSUF AFFENDI DJALARI, TUTY CHOLID, EKO NUGROHO, CAROLINE RIKA WINATA, SALLY SHEANTI NATANEGARA, KAHFIATI KAHDAR, ESTI SITI AMANAH, DIAN WIDIAWATI, YOSEPHINE KOMARA, F. WIDAYANTO, TIARMA SIRAIT, JOHN MARTONO, NILAM FIKRANI SIHAR, AHMAD KHANAFI – KOPEK, ABDUL SYUKUR, MARADITA SUTANTIO

JEPANG SUZUKI NOBUYASU, HIDEMASA SAKIHAMA, TAJIMA YUKIHIKO, YOSHIAKI SHIMA, TOHRU OHTAKA, SHOKO FUJIMOTO, YASUKO IYANAGA, KAGAJO KEN, YUKO KATO, TOSHIE TAKAHASHI, HISAKO NISHIMOTO, ISHII KAKUKO, YOKOTANI FUMI, MUTSUJI TANAKA, TOMOMI MORIYAMA, SHOAI OU, YOSHIMI KASHIWADA, KENJI SATO, ONOYAMA KAZUYO, NAGIRA ATSUSI, HIRAI MASATO, REI SAITO, KYOUKO TANAKA, NAKAMA NOBUE, FUSACO ONISHI, RIEKO YASHIRO

KOREA EON BAE GHIM, HYEE SOOK LEE, SANG TAE LEE, PARK JONG HAK, KIM YOUNG SOON, KIM JONG UN, KIM TAE HEE, HAN SUN JU, YOON JUNG HEE, PARK YOO JIN, HAN EUN HYE, KWON HAE JOO, PIL IN CHUNG

MALAYSIA NUR SYAFINAZ BINTI MOHD ANUAR, ROZITA BINTI SHAMSUDDIN, HABIBAH BITI HJ ABDUL JABBAR, WAN SOLIANA WAN MD ZAIN, EMILIA ABDULL MANAN, HASLIN BIN ISMAIL, ANEEZA BT MOHD ADNAN, YUSOF BIN DAUD ISMAIL, MOHD BAKERI AB.RAHMAN, SURAYA BINTI SHAARI, RAHAYU BINTI RAMDZAN, SULAIMAN ABDUL GHANI, MOHD. AZHAR BIN SAMIN, ANIZA MOHD ARIF, ZAHARAH ZAFAR

Faculty of Art and Design
BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Ganesha 10 Bandung 40132
INDONESIA
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