indonesia 2002 (prinzentables)

The workshop at the ISI Art Institute of Yogyakarta took place in feb./march 2002 as part of a cultural exchange program between Liechtenstein and Indonesia. The exhibition at the Taman Budaya lasted from march 1st – march 5th. With 7 students the basic concept and the already realized projects and actions of www.DerPrinz.li was analysed and discussed. Than the group developped 8 table installations for the exhibition. The subject: myself as a projection figure, as a prince or a princess, the table as a respective field of projection. The place: a house for culture on the grounds of the Benteng Vredeburg, a compound for the colonial power and exploitation, today used as a museum and exhibition place.

Arya Pandjalu built a 3 – dimensional comic with war playfigures using a japanese comic monster as a warmonger, declaring "I am the real prince!". Alexander Nawangseto encloses his princeheart into a birdcage. In front of it he sets small vases with artificial flowers on top of little earthern hills. Only the the flowers farthest away are put directly into the earth. Dani Agus Yuniarto shows the princely life as row of playing cards that bites its own tail. The jokers are placed in the 4 corners and turn their backs at the scenery. Wildan Antares sets his princely selfportrait in between a bible and a koran and draws a line of freedom and pressures, that leads to a lightened black circle with the word "amen". Lenny Ratnasari visions herself as the princess of the mountains. She shows relicts of the still present and also publicly announced vodoo culture of Indonesia and asks the audience to leave hairs and fingernails in order to find out more about themselves or other people through her magic. Elvira Amor Melones sets up a table for a princely dinner with plate that are neither squares nor circles, but something in between. "Eat my ideas," she posts and adds ironically: "You get it?". Arie Dyanto installs a burning prince of rage. Somewhere between a kitschy messiah and a demanding political activist his figure leads into a deeper level of perception, where questions follow questions. The table of www.DerPrinz.li is inscribed with "why haven't though cometh to wrap my wounds". A laying figure is symbolized. Fotos of bodyparts, a row of funnels like small stupas, 2 white gloves with stigmas, a crown filled with a broken ceramic pot and decaying flowers, a small tower next to it, supporting a soap spender that spits its content into the crown...

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