Arya Sukapura & Karel Dudesek

Arya Sukapura Bandung, Indonesia.
He lives and works in Yogyakarta since 2006. He has been actively participating in art and cultural activities in Jogja, Jakarta, Bandung and other cities in Indonesia. His experienceses in 'Gang festival' Sydney, Australia gave him great energy to work harder with his career in the arts.

Personal statement on the collaboration with Karel Dudesek in To Know The Unkown
The art project “To Know The Unknown” is an interesting experience for me. In this process I see two people with different backgrounds meeting each other in a the landscape of a visual territory. There is no information, just pictures of high-rise buildings. By trying to look deeper into these 3 paintings I received, I made collages of green areas on top of these urban environments. This is my effort in communicating a landscape object based on my personal memory about living spaces.

Karel Dudesek, Vienna, Austria
Has experience in performance art, music, media art, visual arts, after Vienna, Hamburg, Atlanta and London, he lives currently in Beijing, China.He participated in major art venues like Documenta, Kassel and Ars Electronica, Linz. He has been working as Professor at Universities in Austria and United Kingdom and is initiator of several festivals and exhibitions. He works at the moment as artist, on the crossroad between manmade an natural grown objects.

Personal statement on the collaboration with Arya Sukapura for To Know The Unknown
I see cities as manmade canvases and objects. In my tradition I have been fascinated by traces and designs which the inhabitants draw or mark on walls and streets. In China such a combination represents a strong contrast towards the official design and architecture of the city scape and marks and traces of the inhabitants. Here two worlds collide by meaning and aesthetics. Beside such a man made interplay with his environment, nature is a significant game changer. Either showing us the merciless, or our own illusionary imagination towards plants and animals.

Images from the collaboration


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