TIMOTEUS ANGGAWAN KUSNO (lahir 1989) adalah seorang seniman yang menciptakan karya-karyanya dalam berbagai media termasuk instalasi, gambar, dan video. Dalam karya-karyanya, ia mengungkai narasi yang membentang di dalam liminalitas fiksi dan sejarah, imajinasi dan memori. Melalui karya dan proyeknya, Kusno mengangkat pertanyaan tentang kolonialitas kekuasaan dan apa yang tidak terlihat.
Ia telah memamerkan karyanya di berbagai museum dan biennale internasional, di antaranya Centre for Fine Arts – Brussels, Belgia, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbay City Museum, India dan Gwangju Biennale 13 . Karya-karyanya juga telah dikoleksi oleh beberapa institusi publik seperti National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Seoul, Korea, dan Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Taipei, Taiwan. Saat ini Kusno tengah berkolaborasi dengan Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Belanda) dalam mengembangkan sebuah proyek yang merespon artefak dan sejarah panjang perlawanan terhadap kolonialisme di bawah tajuk “Revolusi!”. Seiring dengan praktik seninya, sejak 2013, ia telah mengembangkan Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies (CTRS), sebuah lembaga (fiksi) yang melakukan studi eksperimental di “teritori (yang hilang)” di Hindia Belanda yang disebut Tanah Runcuk, dengan melibatkan sejarawan, etnografer, sesama seniman, kurator dan penulis. Dia tinggal dan bekerja di Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Situs pribadi seniman dapat diakses di http://www.takusno.com.
TIMOTEUS ANGGAWAN KUSNO (b. 1989) is an artist who composes his works in various medium including installations, drawings, videos. He renders narratives which stretch in the liminality of fiction and history, imagination and memory. Through his works and projects, Kusno draws the questions on the coloniality of power and what are left unseen
He has exhibited his work in various museums and international biennales, including the Center for Fine Arts – Brussels, Belgium, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbay City Museum, India and 13th Gwangju Biennale. His works have also been collected by several public institutions such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Seoul, Korea, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Taipei, Taiwan. Currently Kusno is collaborating with the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) in developing a project that responds to the artifacts and long history of resistance to colonialism under the title “Revolution!”. Along with his artistic practice, since 2013, he has been developing Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies (CTRS), a (fictional) institution which conducts experimental studies on a “(lost) territory” in the Dutch East Indies called Tanah Runcuk, involving historians, ethnographers, fellow artists, curators and writers. He lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The artist’s personal website can be accessed at https://www.takusno.com/.
Pameran tunggal Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Angga), Ghost Light, memamerkan sejumlah karya, antara lain video, patung, dan objek-objek lainnya yang dibuat dan dirangkai dalam bentuk instalasi pada ruang gelap dengan tata letak yang membangun suasana dramaturgikal sekaligus persepsi filmis.
Beberapa karya mengingatkan kita pada karakter ruang-ruang kehidupan hari ini, beberapa yang lain memicu imajinasi terkait mitos, juga hal yang terkesan asing, tapi menggelitik kita dengan ungkapan puitis yang mengikat. Karya video, khususnya, menyajikan sebuah kisah yang membongkar proses penciptaan kisah itu sendiri. Lagi pula, representasi objek di dalam video dan objek riil di luarnya saling memantul dan bersahut, menyiratkan hubungan imajiner yang merambati lingkungan internal pameran yang akan kita kitari.
Landasan kuratorial pameran ini ialah keinginan si seniman untuk mengekspresikan momen jedanya dari proses panjang memanfaatkan medium teks dalam menjelajahi kemungkinan fiksi sebagai teknik dekonstruksi sejarah. Secara bersamaan, Ghost Light menunjukkan paralelitas dari metode berkesenian Angga yang masih terus berkembang itu; pengolahan arsip berbasis teks disubstitusi dengan pemajanan dapur produksi untuk memainkan liminalitas antara fiksi, sejarah, imajinasi, ingatan, dan kenyataan, serta proses aktual untuk menanggapi kelima perihal tersebut.
Informasi selengkapnya seputar pameran tersebut bisa diakses di sini
The solo exhibition of Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Angga), Ghost Light, exhibits a number of works, including videos, sculptures, and other objects that are made and assembled in the form of installations in a dark room with a layout that builds a dramaturgical atmosphere as well as a filmic perception.
Some works remind us of the character of spaces of today’s life, some others trigger the imagination related to myths, also things that seem foreign, but tickle us with poetic expressions. The video work, in particular, presents a story that exposes the process of creating the story itself. Furthermore, the representation of objects in the video and real objects beyond it bounces and responds to each other, implying an imaginary relationship that spreads through the internal environment of the exhibition we are going to explore.
The curatorial basis of this exhibition is the artist’s desire to express his interval moment from the long process using the medium of text in exploring the possibilities of fiction as a historical deconstruction technique. Simultaneously, Ghost Light shows the parallels of Angga’s developing artistic method; Text-based archival processing is substituted by exposing the process of production to play the liminality between fiction, history, imagination, memory, and reality, as well as the actual process to respond to these five things.
More information about that exhibition can be accessed here.
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Oil on canvas
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Oil on canvas
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Cat minyak pada kanvas
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm
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Cat minyak pada kanvas
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm
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Cat minyak pada kanvas
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm
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Cat minyak pada kanvas
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm
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Cat minyak pada kanvas
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm
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Gambar arang di atas kertas
Charcoal drawing on
paper
89 x 62 cm
2019
“Echoes from Terra
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Manual Embroidery
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2016
“Study of a Figure in
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Gambar arang di atas kertas
Charcoal drawing on
paper
89 x 62 cm
2019
“Another Version for Map of Tanah Runcuk”
Kopi Indonesia, teh, tinta India, tinta Jepang, tinta Cina di atas kertas
Indonesian coffee, tea, Indian ink, Japanese ink, Chinese ink on paper
86 x 65 cm
2016
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