“Since the first human migration to the Asian continent, Asian humans have been required to adapt to their geological conditions. The expanse of active volcanoes, the dense of tropical forests, and the sea along with seismic activities and changes of the wind, encourage people to build narratives to make their pitch in the middle of it all to be more reasonable or worth living. Starting from placing ancestral spirits in the forest, banning offerings to guard the oceans, to purifying the mountains, has played an important role in their mind to not carelessly cut down forests, overfishing, or in dealing with life in areas prone to earthquakes and tsunamis. This narrative network develops our sense of earth. The legacy of various “enlightenment” that produced clusters of issues and spirits of ancestors who increasingly lost their place of rest is now wandering around gathering into Southeast ghosts (hantu-hantu Tenggara).” (Luthfan Nur Rochman) Such conditions are inseparable from modernity which forces Southeast people to adapt to ‘different’ ways of life from what was inherited by their ancestors, and then erode the traces of their own culture. From the remnants of what we see today, there are people who preserve it and still believed by some people. From the earliest visuals and sounds, those imprints sometimes appear, sometimes disappear. It becomes a strange thing or even considered as something that is not part of ‘our culture’ by many of our society. In this 17th edition of 69 Performance Club performance, the curatorial frame that is encouraged to each participant is to make a sound as an important element in the performance artwork. Southeast Ghost invites participants to look deep into ancient traces of Southeast humans through sound, motion, and form, which is confronted with our current situation. The method used in the search can be in the form of anthropological, technological studies, or speculations of the earliest sounds produced by the body. The 17th edition of 69 The Performance Club was held at GoetheHaus Jakarta, Goethe Institut Indonesien on November 21st of 2019. This edition was themed “Southeast Ghost”, curated by Hafiz Rancajale, with assistant curator Anggraeni Dwi Widhiasih. This 17th edition consists of six performances: “Arrange to Stare” by Maria Christina Silalahi, Pingkan Polla, and Prashasti Wilujeng Putri; “Unknown Numbers” by Maria Deandra and Taufiqurrahman (Kifu); “Empty Recital” by Mansur Zikri; “Doxa” by Ferial Afiff; “Unfinished Project” by Dhanurendra Pandji; and “Baur” by Dhuha Ramadhani and Robby Ocktavian. Year Jakarta, Indonesia
2019
Hantu Tenggara – 69 Performance Club at Goethe Institut Indonesia
