Re: Sardono W. Kusumo "SUNKEN SEA"

[Amir Sidharta]

--- Kumoratih Darmawan wrote:

> "Sunken Sea"
> Sardono W. Kusumo berkolaborasi dengan Sunaryo dan
> Iravati Sudiarso
>
> 7 Februari 2007
> Graha Bhakti Budaya - TIM
> 20.00 WIB
>
> Pengarah Artistik Sunaryo
> Penata Musik Iravati Sudiarso
> Musisi Iravati M. Sudiarso, Aisha A. Pletscher,
> Oliver Pletscher
> Penari Sardono W. Kusumo, Andara Firman Moeis,
> Dilliani, Yola Yulfianti
> Penata Cahaya Iskandar K. Loedin
> Produser Bram & Kumoratih Kushardjanto
>
> Sunken Sea adalah karya koreografi oleh Sardono W.
> Kusumo
> The Mountain of Wind adalah karya instalasi oleh
> Sunaryo
>
> HTM
> Kelas I Rp. 150.000,- Kelas II Rp. 100.000,-
> Balkon Rp. 50.000,-
>
> [ Program ini dipersembahkan oleh GELAR ]
>
>
>
> REVIEW
> By Alessandra Lopez y Royo - Roehampton University
>
> "Sunken Sea" and "The Mountain of Wind"
> Sardono W. Kusumo in collaboration with Sunaryo
>
> I saw the premiere of 'Sunken Sea' and the
> installation 'The Mountain of Wind' on 18th July
> 2006 at Selasar Sunaryo in Bandung. Familiar with
> Sardono's work, and aware of his long standing
> commitment to ecological issues, I was, in a sense,
> a little blasé about attending the event. But what I
> saw totally exceeded my expectations: knowing in
> advance about the theme of the
> installation-performance was not enough to prepare
> me for its sheer emotional impact and its deep
> lasting effect. 'Sunken Sea' is a performance that
> stays with you, and involves you, by forcing you to
> reflect on present conditions, inviting you to
> ponder on what you, the spectator, in your own small
> way, can do next.
>
> When I arrived at the Gallery, a few hours before
> the event, I took a good look at the installation,
> walking around it, touching the structure and
> feeling its texture. A 15 meters long rectangular,
> solid white shape on which concentric circles are
> incised at one end, cut almost in half by deep
> cracks, and with a slope towards the front end:
> even without knowing that the stimulus for the
> installation had been a reflection on the tsunamis
> and earthquakes which have ravaged Indonesia in the
> very recent past, by interacting as viewer with the
> installation, the allusions to earth's activities
> was obvious. One could feel the powerful energy
> harnessed under the earth's crevices skilfully
> captured in the structure.
>
> Later, the performance began. Sardono and his
> dancers interacted - danced - with the stone
> structure, rolling over and disappearing into the
> cracks, only to reappear and begin the rolling
> process again, interspersed by calm, introspective
> solo dancing by Sardono, whose body movements
> activated the volumes and curves of the stone. At
> moments like this the audience was swept by a
> feeling of deep sorrow and a sense of intense
> loneliness, evoked by Sardono's articulate body and
> the insistent soundtrack.
>
> As the performance unfolded, there were no
> recognisable references to earthquakes or mighty
> tsunami waves but the installation-performance
> aptly conveyed the earth's tremors and the resulting
> shock, and the physical and emotional agony caused
> by the tragedies of the recent past, with a profound
> sense of grief for the unbalancing and disruption
> of the ecosystem, systematically and virulently
> demolished by the exploitative industrialization of
> the 20th century, with a resulting break of the tie
> which binds human life to the natural environment.
>
> Today, two years after the earthquake that caused
> the tsunami of 26 December 2004 and only a few
> months after the earthquake that devastated South
> Yogyakarta in May 2006, the general tendency is one
> of oblivion. We would like to forget that such
> events ever occurred and meanwhile we would like to
> carry on as usual, that is, doing nothing to
> reinstate that fragile ecological balance which
> would allow us to end the perennial threat posed by
> the constant environmental pollution. 'Sunken Sea'
> is there to remind us that such blindness and
> unwieldy attitude cannot be sustained for much
> longer: these recent events, truly, are our wake up
> call.
>
>

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