DEAR DIARY – Workshop and Casual Talk

Saturday, 01 July 2023 | 03:00 PM
Cemeti-Institute for Art and Society

This workshop was organized based on one of the ongoing works of Perempuan Pengkaji Seni titled “Dear Diary which was exhibited at the solo exhibition “Sido Ngroso, Sido Nglakoni“. This work presents memories collected and recorded in a journal. It contains narratives of women navigating between domestic and creative work during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as their processes as a group of women in building ideas, concepts, narratives, and creating collective activation.

The creations were made by workshop participants by freely cutting and pasting magazine pages into collages. Combined with various colouring tools, including make-up kits, they express narratives and reflections during the Covid-19 pandemic and the limitations and conflicts they experience as women. One of the workshop participants interprets the pandemic period as a turning point, where all limitations due to health protocols and being a woman are slowly unravelled and resolved. It was not easy to go through and not completely resolved, but it aligns with the freedom and independence she longs for.