ruangrupa presents:
FOR SALE!
art project about consume in the city of Jakarta


opening: Saturday, 27 December 2006 (19.00)
exhibition - open daily: 28 December – 05 January 2007 (11.00 – 19.00)
at ruangrupa

Artists:
Ika Vantiani (writer/ Jakarta / Indonesia)
Kautsar Anggakara (video artist / Jakarta / Indonesia)
Muhammad Thariq (visual artist / Pekan Baru / Indonesia)
Marco Paolo Rolla (visual artist / Belo Horizonte / Brazil)


Jakarta is the entry gate from all of the information about product that have been corrupted, the taste of fried chicken will always be delicious as long as we don’t know that the chicken is already frosted in a year. Slowly our value of needs is changing. Buy a luxurious car without having a garage at the house, or have a 30 inches television but you can’t afford to send your children to school. The artists that participated in this project are trying to show the relation of the society consciousness within the product along with the changes of our value of needs, and how our daily life and consciousness have been influences by “packaging”. The artists are work with a medium such as short film, video, object, installation, questioner, and zine.

Jakarta adalah pintu gerbang dari semua informasi produk yang terputus, hingga fried chicken tetap enak selama kita tidak tahu kalau ayam diawetkan selama setahun. Perlahan, nilai kebutuhan mulai bergeser. Memiliki kendaraan mewah tanpa punya garasi di rumah, atau memiliki televisi 30 inch tapi tidak mampu menyekolahkan anak. Empat seniman dalam proyek ini mencoba melihat hubungan kesadaran masyarakat akan produk dan pergeseran nilai-nilai kebutuhannya, dan bagaimana keseharian dan kesadaran kita telah dipengaruhi “kemasan”. Karya terdiri dari film pendek, video, object, instalasi, angket dan zine.

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supported by:


RAIN - ARTISTS’ INITIATIVES NETWORK


HIVOS


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