VA LECTURE-Arahmaiani 11/24/2020!!! — Mount Royal School of Art

ARAHMAIANI

Born in Bandung 1961

Is one of Indonesia’s most seminal and respected contemporary artist, Arahmaiani has long been internationaly recognized for her powerful and provocative commentaries on social, political, cultural and environmental issues. Working in performance, painting, drawing, installation, video, poetry, dance and music. And in the 1980 she established herself as pioneer in the field of performance art in South East Asia. She was one of the artists in the Indonesia National Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Her work has grappled with contemporary politics, violence, critique of capital, the female body and in recent years, her own identity, which although Muslim, still mediates between Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and animist beliefs. She often uses her public presence in order to attract attention to violence in general, and violence against women or female discrimination in Indonesia’s Islamic society, in particular. Since September 11, she was combined her critical attitude toward Islam with a fight against its general stigmatization. And since 2010 she has been working with Tibetan monks in Tibet Plateau dealing with environmental issue. Besides working with various communities of artist, activist, academic in various places in the world, also religious Islamic boarding school community in Indonesia.

She has been taking part on art event such as 2nd Asia Pacific Tiennale (1996); Havana Biennale (1997); Sao Paulo Biennale (2002); Lyon Biennale (2000); Werklietz Biennale (2000); Gwangju Biennale (2002); Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva (2003); Venice Biennale (2003); World Social Forum, Mumbai, India (2004); Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum (2007); Kunming Biennale (2017); Yinchuan Biennale(2018), South East Asia Triennale, Jakarta (2018),”Solidarity As A Means of Action” Haifa Museum, Israel (2019) “After Hope: Video of Resistance “ Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2020)