Open Studio: Wok The Rock
Open Studio
Wok the Rock
25 June – 26 July 2025
“Sena-Seni Jungkir-Balik“
25 June-26 July 2025
Wok The Rock is an interdisciplinary artist whose artistic practice is interested in developing collaborative work and interdisciplinary experimentation that is open, equitable, and sustainable. In this open studio, Wok The Rock attempts to unravel and complicate creative/artistic practices that intertwine with various other fields of work and their social functions, supporting experimental spaces. His art studio will function as a discussion center, skills training workshop, entertainment room, temporary office, and internet cafe.
*Open Studio is one of Cemeti – Institute for Art and Society program that focuses on artistic experimentation, and the development of discourse on works by artists. This program is one of the new forms of using the Cemeti Stockroom space which is held regularly and is open to artists, either by invitation or submission of proposals.
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Biography
Wok The Rock is multi-disciplinary artist active in various fields of contemporary art, design, and music. Wok The Rock is a member of the Ruang MES 56 artist collective in Yogyakarta, manages the Yes No Wave Music label, curates the monthly experimental music concert series Yes No Klub, and has initiated the Indonesia Netaudio Forum, among other works.
Wok has co-produced local bands such as Senyawa, and the art and music collective Punkasila and Dialita, a female choir composed of political survivors. He has participated in the 2013 Jakarta Biennale, the Tokyo Performance Art Meeting, artist residencies with the Delfina Foundation, Casco Art Institute, 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art, and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. He curated the 13th Jogja Biennale in 2015, collaborating with Indonesian and Nigerian artists.