1. Performance Festival

Suryodarmo, Melati
1969 born in Surakarta /Indonesia, lives and works in Braunschweig (Germany)
"I intend to touch the fluid border between the body and its environment through my art work. I aim to create a concentrated level of intensity without the use of narrative structures. Talking about politics, society or psychology makes no sense to me if the nerves are not able to digest the information. I love it when a performance reaches a level of factual absurdity." Melati Suryodarma
DER SEKUNDENTRAUM Duration: ca. 1 hour Date: 1998 Material: 300 pieces of clothes (provided by the artist) Performance

I exist within a certain axis of cultural and historical location. Am I able to see clearly where I came from, where I am now or where it's leading me? My consciousness is sharpened in new locations and experiences. Yet it remains difficult to keep a constant vigilance on our perceptions so that we do not fall prey to false consciousness and prejudices nor become victims to propaganda of the market and power of the media and other distortions. I took a journey to find my identity but yet to avoid the crisis inside my awareness. Searching of something different than where I came from or as inevitabilities in order to continue my existence and growth. Place and time shifted as much as they affect the perceptions and consciousness. There were stories which I will never forget until the end of my life. There are paths of each story which I will never be able to erase. The line of construction, the construction of a rule, the rule of conjunction, the conjunction of situations, the situation of stimulations, the stimulation of destructions, the destruction of constructions, zero…. And it should continue again but never been the same as beginning. The Performance : I fold the clothes which are put on the long table. After all clothes are folded, I put on clothes one upon the other until I barely can move. I try to walk slowly from the front of old building to the new building among the public. When I arrived at the new building, I will disappear.

Education:
2001- 2002 Postgraduate Program (Meisterschule) under Prof. Marina
Abramovic at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig, Germany
1994- 2001 Study of performance art and sculpture under Prof.Anzu
Furukawa, Prof. Mara Mattuschka and Prof. Marina Abramovic. Degree in
Fine Art at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig, Germany
1993 Degree in International Relations Studies, Faculty of Politic and
Socio Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung, Indonesia

Exhibitions & Festivals (selection):
2004 “Nude with skeleton”, MARTa Herford, Germany
“Retrospective” Galerie der HBK Braunschweig, Germany
“7a*11d”, International Performance Art Festival, Toronto, Canada
“Leidenschaft Junge Kunst”, Allgemeine Konsum Verein, Braunschweig
“FAXE KONDI- unzipped time”, Gallery Futura, Prague, Czech Republik
“Cleaning The House -performance Loop”, NMAC Foundation, Jerez Dela
Frontera, Spain
“RISK”, Landesmuseum Braunschweig, Braunschweig
2003 “4th International Performance Festival Odense”, Odense
“Live Art brrr”, Teatro Carlos Alberto/Teatro Nacional de São joão,
Porto Portugal
“Student Body”, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporenea, Galicia, Spain
“Performance in der Kunsthalle”, Fridericianum , Kassel,
“Performance art NRW 2003”, Healing Theater, Köln
“Recycling the future”, group event, Venice Biennale 2003, Italy
“As soon as possible” Performance and Exhibition, PAC Milano, Italy
“Performance Art Nord Rhein Westfalen”, Maschinenhaus, Essen
2002 “Body Power Power Play“, Wüttenbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
“The Promise“, Solo Exhibition, Gallerie Gedok, Stuttgart
“Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, LOT Theater, Braunschweig
“Pret â Perform“, Gallery Via Farini, Milano, Italy
“Body Basic“, Trans art 02, Franzenfestung, Brixen, Italy
“Common Ground“, Landesvertretungshaus Niedersachsen –Schleswig
Holstein, Berlin
2001 “Festa dell´arte“, Aquario diroma, Rome, Italy
“Marking the territory“, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
“Get That Balance”, National Sculpture Factory, Opera House, Cork,
Ireland
“A little bit of History Repeated“, Kunst Werke, Berlin
“Indonesian Live Art“, Gallerie Mein Blau, Berlin
“Polysonneries, 2nd International Performance Festival“, Lyon, France
“von weiß-rosa zu rot“, Luther Turm, Cologne
“Lullaby for the ancestors“, Solo Performance, LOT Theater,
Braunschweig
“Fingerspitzengefühle“, Group exhibition, Galerie der Stadt
Sindelfingen
2000 “Performance Passing Through“, Gedok, Stuttgart
“Anableps“, Group exhibition, Galery Miscetti, Rome, Italy
“ins“, Maximillian Forum, Munich
“Visible Differences - an event“, Hebbel Theater, Berlin
“Spot + Places“, Performance Congress, Healing Theater, Cologne
1999 “Fresh Air“, Group-exhibition, E-Werk, Weimar
“Performance Festival Odense“, Odense, Danmark
“Cardiff Art in Time“, UWIC, Cardiff, Wales, GB
“Unfinished Business“, Group exhibition, Gallery am Lützow Platz,
Berlin
“Der Sekundentraum“, Solo Performance, Healing Theater, Cologne
“Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, LOT Theater, Braunschweig
1998 “Finally“, Group exhibition, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
1997 “Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, FBZ, Braunschweig
1996 Dance Performance “Kashya-kashya Muttiku“ with Yuko Negoro
(Japan), FBZ, Braunschweig
1988- 1995 various dance and theatre performances in Indonesia and
Germany

Forthcoming Exhibitions/ performances:
2005 Wüttembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Kieler Festwoche, Schloss Salzau, Kiel, Germany
Navigation, Artlife, New Castle, GB
Solo Exhibition, Galeri Cemeti, Jogjakarta; Goethe Institute Jakarta,
Indonesia
“Egon Schiele”, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

Grants:
2002 - 2003 Graduierten Stipendium, Hochschule für Bildende Künste
Braunschweig
2003 Arbeitsstipendium der Niedersächsische Ministerium für Kultur und
Wissenschaft, Braunschweig

Bibliography:
Hannes Malte Mahler für Agora, “Fresh Air“, exh. catalogue ,Salon
Verlag, Cologne, pg. 96-98
Else Jespersen, “Performance Festival Odense 1999“, exh. catalogue,
Performance Festival Odense, 1999, pg. 44
Mario Candia and Stefania Miscetti, “ANAPBLEPS“, exh. catalogue,
Gallery Miscetti, Rome, 2000, pg. 38, 116
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Zeichnungen” exh. Catalogue, © Michael Glasmeier und die
Meisterschüler HBK 2002, pg. 91-96
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Kunst Werke Berlin e.V, Berlin, 2001, pg.36,37
Dreams and Conflicts – the dictatorship of the viewer, 50th
International art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Exhibition
catalogue, Grafiche Peruzzo, Vegianno for Marsilio Editori s.p.a in
Venice, pg. 497
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International Performance Festival Odense, 2003, pg. 24
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Lizzy Le Quesne, “Provocative Performance – imaginative
self-reflections use the body as a canvas”, The Prague Post, July 29,
2004.
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Landeszeitung/ 18 Sept 1999
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Braunschweiger Zeitung, Feuilleton, 6.5.1998
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November 28th 2001, pg.14

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