West Java West Yorkshire Coop Movement
Collaboration with Jatiwangi Art Factory
March 2018 – ongoing
This new project is a collaboration with Indonesian arts collective Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF) to develop cooperative movement linking regions of West Yorkshire and West Java. Founded by Bunga Siagian, Ismal Muntaha, George Clark and Will Rose. In collaboration with Pavilion in Leeds we are initiating a series of commissioning, exchange and residency opportunities between West Yorkshire and West Java. The collaboration centres around Village Video Festival, a project JaF have been running annually since 2009 in the rural-urban area where they live and work. Taking place over two-weeks, the festival model engages artists and the local community in the production and presentation of videos.
First events as part of the collaboration were 10 day research trip to visit locations around West Yorkshire and meet with various community groups, artists and villagers. The first exchange was with JaF members Ismal Muntaha and Bunga Siagian. Founded in 2018 the evolving project has encompassed wide range of events between West Java and West Yorkshire and involved numerous artists working across moving image, literature, music, ceramics and visual arts.
Participating and collaborators:
Abdullah Adekola (Leeds, UK), Agung Eko Sutrisno (Bandung, Indonesia), Ahmed Kaysher (Leeds, UK), Aliansyah Coniago (Barus , Indonesia), Anna Peaker (Leeds, UK), Bunga Siagian (Jatiwangi, Indonesia), Daoud Al-Janabi (Leeds, UK), Dian Pratiwi (Bandung, Indonesia), Elspeth Mitchell (Leeds, UK), Erik Schelander (Leeds, UK), Fajar Riyanto (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), George Clark (Marsden, UK), Ginggi Hasyim (Jatiwangi, Indonesia), Harry Meadley (Leeds, UK), Ika Yuliana (Jatiwangi, Indonesia), Isabella Careras (Leeds, UK), Ismal Muntaha (Jatiwangi, Indonesia), Jamshed Folad (Leeds, UK), Joe Goff (Leeds, UK), Kerstin Doble (Leeds, UK), Khemi Shabazz (Leeds, UK), Ahmad Sujai (Jatiwangi, Indonesia), Lulia Togara (Leeds, UK), Prabowo Setyadi (Bandung, Indonesia), Riyadhus Shalihin (Bandung, Indonesia), Robert Wilson (Todmorden, UK), Rowland Thomas (Leeds, UK), Saitor Hidayat (Majalenka, Indoneisa), Will Rose (Leeds, UK), Yopie Nugraha (Bandung, Indonesia)
Residencies:
Throughout the project we have organised multiple residencies building exchanges between the communities and engaging artists to work in new ways and with different communities.
Bunga Siagian & Ismal Muntaha (Leeds & Marsden, UK, March 2018); George Clark (Jatiwangi, Indonesia, December 2018); Harry Meadley, Isabella Carreras & Kerstin Doble (Bandung & Jatiwangi, Indonesia, March 2019); Ismal Muntaha (Marsden & London, Indonesia, June 2019); Ika Yuliana (Leeds & Marsden, UK, July 2019); Tedi Nurmanto & Ahmad Sujai (Leeds & Marsden, UK, August 2019)
Projects and events:
The cooperative project has seen the realisation of numerous events, presentations, screenings, workshops, musical performances and production of new works and exhibitions. Here are a selection of projects and events presented as part of WJWY.
Tools for Conviviality, 21 May 2018
Swarthmore Education Centre, Leeds
Pavilion Artists’ Moving Image Network Meeting, 23 May 2018
Swarthmore Education Centre, Leeds
with George Clark, Ismal Muntaha & Bunga Siagian
10th Village Video Festival, December 2018 – June 2019
Jatiwangi Art Factory, Indonesia
Walking Dad: XTC x George Clark, 15-16 December 2018
Jatiwangi Art Factory
Project by George Clark with XTC biker club, Majalenka
Better Call Shaman, 23 December 2019
Jatiwangi art Factory, Indonesia
Project by Fajar Riyanto
Satata, 2 February 2019
Project by Prabowo Setyadi
After School Film Club, 14-16 February 2019
Jatiwangi Sinematek, Jatiwangi art Factory, Indonesia
Forum Gossip, March 2019
Jatiwangi art Factory, Indonesia
Discussion group with local factory workers
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Jatiwangi art Factory
Project by Harry Meadley with After School Film Club
Simpati Paradiso: Chapter 1
Performance by Riyadhus Shalihin & Agung Eko Sutrisno, 14 April 2019
Jatiwangi Sinematek, Jatiwangi art Factory, Indonesia
Pemilu Garment / Garment Election
Project by Dian Pratiwi with garment factory workers
Shaman Council Majalengka
Jatiwangi art Factory, 1 June 2019
Project by Fajar Riyanto
Pavilion Artists’ Moving Image Network Meeting, 19 June 2019
Pavilion, Leeds
Work presented by: Harry Meadley, Leeds Animation Workshop
Guests: Ismal Muntaha, George Clark
The Rural Assembly, 20 -22 June 2019
Wysing Arts Centre, Wysing / Whitechapel Gallery, in London
Presentation by Ismal Muntaha on Jatiwangi art Factory and West Java West Yorkshire Cooperative Movement
Pavilion Artists’ Moving Image Network Meeting
17 July 2019, Pavilion, Leeds
Work presented by: David Steans
Additional work by: Mike Dibb
Guest: Ika Yuliana
Loudest Voice In Meanwood
Evening of films and music, organised by Joe Geoff with performance by Tedi Nurmanto
Remang-Remang, 25 & 27 August 2019,
Pavilion, Leeds
Open studio led by Tedi Nurmanto and Ahmad Sujai.
Art School For Rebel Girls x Jatiwangi art Factory, 2019
Tea Towel based on drawing sound/drawing workshop led by Kerstin Dobel and Isabella Carreras at Jatiwangi art Factory.
Real World Ceramics, 2020
Residency for artist Sarah Fraser to work with Jatiwangi art Factory and Art School for Rebel Girls, Leeds as part of the Crafting Futures programme supported by British Council and Craft Council.
https://www.sarahfraser.net/projects/real-world-ceramics/
Wysing Art Centre residency, 2020
George Clark, Ismal Muntaha and Bunga Siagian will develop new project working remotely together with Wysing Art Centre
Time to challenge the hierarchies
Article by Adam Pushkin in Arts Professional explores the art scene in Indonesia and the lessons to be learned from their models of collective practice with interviews with George Clark and Ismal Muntaha.
This collaboration was founded with generous support of all the artists and communities who made this project possible.
Individual and collective projects have been supported the following organisations British Council Indonesia, Leeds Inspired, British Council, Arts Council of England, London Book Fair Fringe Programme through funding from BEKRAF (the Creative Economy Agency of Indonesia). Organised by the National Organising Committee of the 2019 London Book Fair (NOC-LBF) and Virtuago.
