ruangrupa
ruangrupa (spelled and written with a lowercase ‘r’) was founded in Jakarta in 2000 by a group of artists. the founders felt that there was a great necessity for “space” (physically and mentally) in Jakarta, where artists could work intensively and could direct their attention more to means of analysis and less to means of production.
A space that conveyed the ideas of visual art – which are important to analyse, mediate, and furnish – like public art, performance art, and video art. The founders felt that this was the only way in which visual art could possess a critical sensibility, which is the most important position of art in society.
City
Yakarta
Country
Indonesia
Region
Asia
Year of Creation
2000
Featured Project
Collecting Memories: The Village of Paper-Making for Thousands of Years
These shared experimentations around the common village spaces were developed through workshops and interventions that seek to articulate social dynamics and develop new tools and strategies. The resulting projects use both tangible and immaterial resources locally available to collectively generate new understandings of the potential of rural contexts.
References
Juliastuti, N. (2012). Ruangrupa: A conversation on horizontal organization. *Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry*, 10, 118-125.
Teh, D. (2016). The global art of ruangrupa: Contemporary art from Indonesia. *Third Text*, 30(5-6), 406-421.
März, B. (2019). Rethinking the curatorial: Ruangrupa’s collective practices in Jakarta. *Journal of Visual Culture*, 18(3), 299-315.
Herlambang, A. (2021). The ruangrupa art collective and its curatorial practice in the Jakarta art scene. *Art AsiaPacific Almanac*, 15, 50-56.
Rossiter, N. (2020). Ruangrupa and the future of collective curation. *South East Asia Art Review*, 8(2), 72-89.
Teh, D. (2016). The global art of ruangrupa: Contemporary art from Indonesia. *Third Text*, 30(5-6), 406-421.
März, B. (2019). Rethinking the curatorial: Ruangrupa’s collective practices in Jakarta. *Journal of Visual Culture*, 18(3), 299-315.
Herlambang, A. (2021). The ruangrupa art collective and its curatorial practice in the Jakarta art scene. *Art AsiaPacific Almanac*, 15, 50-56.
Rossiter, N. (2020). Ruangrupa and the future of collective curation. *South East Asia Art Review*, 8(2), 72-89.
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