Artists and the People

Elly Kent is a visual artist, writer, translator, and researcher. She is also the editor of the New Mandala.

• Author's Introduction: Entanglement in the worldPart 1: History, identity and culture: the matrix for the artist's soulSi Kabayan Nyintreuk: eccentricity and activismLocal knowledge: Jiwa ketokThe unified eye: Where do the Quiet Ones Go?Etching performance: reflections from praxisPersonal/social/interactive: a formula for the engaged artistDrawing on the personal-social-interactivePart 2: Turba, down to 'the people'People's culture inside and outside institutionsParticipation, pedagogy and politics: Made Bayak's PlasticologyAdiboga Wonoasri – cosmopolitanism out of starvationJakarta Biennale and Trotoart: social tactics in the cityIBU at Cigondewah: turba as antagonismPart 3: Kerakyatan: conscientisation for the peopleThe New Order and New Indonesian Art: Opportunity and OppressionConscientisation and the rakyat – global/local entanglementRayuan Pulau Kelapa – turba, conscientisation and negotiationKuehSenyum: actions in social exchangeTepuk Tangan Nuhun: interventions in gratitudeBack to the Bay: Tita Salina and conceptual conscientisationPerforming opposition: the burial of Made BayakPart 4: Ethics and AestheticsLocal knowledge: gotong royong and rasaPirates and maids: gotong royong as horizontal knowledge-buildingAn ecosystem of production: institutional practices and contemporary art practice in IndonesiaMamahkuaing: maternal feelingsRasa: Feeling, Flavour, Taste and TouchA conversation: true fiction, fictional truthImpermanent conclusionsAn artistic ideologyOriginary discoursesCoda