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Author:   Elly Kent
Publisher:   NUS Press
Imprint:   NUS Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9789813251632

ISBN 10:   9813251638
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Table of Contents

Author's Introduction: Entanglement in the world Part 1: History, identity and culture: the matrix for the artist's soul Si Kabayan Nyintreuk: eccentricity and activism Local knowledge: Jiwa ketok The unified eye: Where do the Quiet Ones Go? Etching performance: reflections from praxis Personal/social/interactive: a formula for the engaged artist Drawing on the personal-social-interactive Part 2: Turba, down to 'the people' People's culture inside and outside institutions Participation, pedagogy and politics: Made Bayak's Plasticology Adiboga Wonoasri – cosmopolitanism out of starvation Jakarta Biennale and Trotoart: social tactics in the city IBU at Cigondewah: turba as antagonism Part 3: Kerakyatan: conscientisation for the people The New Order and New Indonesian Art: Opportunity and Oppression Conscientisation and the rakyat – global/local entanglement Rayuan Pulau Kelapa – turba, conscientisation and negotiation KuehSenyum: actions in social exchange Tepuk Tangan Nuhun: interventions in gratitude Back to the Bay: Tita Salina and conceptual conscientisation Performing opposition: the burial of Made Bayak Part 4: Ethics and Aesthetics Local knowledge: gotong royong and rasa Pirates and maids: gotong royong as horizontal knowledge-building An ecosystem of production: institutional practices and contemporary art practice in Indonesia Mamahkuaing: maternal feelings Rasa: Feeling, Flavour, Taste and Touch A conversation: true fiction, fictional truth Impermanent conclusions An artistic ideology Originary discourses Coda

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[The book] proves to be a key instrument in understanding the Indonesian art scene's rich collectivity. -- ArtAsiaPacific

"""[The book] proves to be a key instrument in understanding the Indonesian art scene's rich collectivity.""-- ""ArtAsiaPacific"" ""Elly Kent's new book Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia adopts a sociological approach to understanding the practice of art in, specifically, Indonesia and its history and tradition.""-- ""Asian Review of Books"""

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Elly Kent is a visual artist, writer, translator, and researcher. She is also the editor of the New Mandala.

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