Anang Saptoto, Panen Apa Hari Ini, 2022

Can you tell us about the environment in the town you live in? (2022)

 

 

Offline Exhibition Duration: 2-8 October 2022

Offline Exhibition Venue: JNM Bloc of Jogjakarta National Museum

 

As a socially collaborative art project, Look Who’s Talking engages with a wide range of topics such as art, society, politics, and ecology, highlighting the activities of individual participants in various cities around the world, while facilitating greater solidarity and cooperation between them despite their physical distance. It is an online platform project that aims to explore sustainable practices in art. As an extension of Look Who’s Talking, ‘Jalin Sahabat’ is a socially engaged art project in which the artist, Anang Saptoto, and children from local villages communicate with children from other parts of the world on the topic of the environment and build dialogues; Korean and British children also participate in this exhibition.

 

Coping with the environmental problems we face today, and enabling the next generation to live in a better world, starts with the essential sense of responsibility that the older generation should have. Otherwise, the next generation will not be able to enjoy what we thought we could enjoy in nature, and the resulting ecological problems could lead to ever more severe and insurmountable issues for human survival than now. That is why, through this project, we aim to face such challenges and find ways to overcome environmental problems together through dialogue. This art project is used as a tool to facilitate communication between children through postcards; it is a way of discovering what actions we must take together.

 

Curator: Sunyoung Oh

Associate Curator: Tessa Peters

Collaborators: Grace Hur (CANADA/KOREA), Jane Hur (CANADA/KOREA), Justin Hur (CANADA/KOREA), Joel Jung (KOREA), Jungdn Lee (KOREA), Rhole Lee (KOREA), Lotte (UK), and Joseph, Jusmen, Joey, Rowan, Vita, Yaran, Lewan, Rayssa and Isaiah from The Portland Inn Project (UK)

Supported by Project 7 ½, Arts Council Korea