Premiere: June 23 – 24, 2015 8.30 PM at Pusat Kebudayaan Koesnadi Hardjasoemantri/PKKH, Bulaksumur, UGM, Yogyakarta
Directed by: Yudi Ahmad Tajudin.
Collectively created by: (in alphabetical order) Ari Dwianto, Arsita Iswardhani, Erythrina Baskoro, Gunawan Maryanto, Ignatius Sugiarto, Jompet Kuswidananto, MN Qomaruddin, Naomi Srikandi, Sri Qadariatin, Ugoran Prasad, Vassia Valkanioti, Yennu Ariendra
Assisted by: Muh Rasyid Ridlo, Purwoko, Samuel Payo Sinuraya dan Warsito. Costume: Gemailla Gea Geriantiana. Producer assistant: Lusia Neti Cahyani
Producer:
Yudi Ahmad Tajudin
Produced by: Teater Garasi/Garasi Performance Institute. In partnership with: PKKH UGM. Supported by: Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation
TICKET
Presale: — until June 17, 2015: Rp 50.000 Students: Rp 25.000
Normal price: June 18, 2015 — until the showing days: Rp 70.000 Students: Rp 35.000
Limited seats: 200 audiences per-show
Reservation: (Lusi) 0878 3929 8113
TIME IS TRANSIENT. WE ARE ETERNAL
Time is Transient. We are Eternal is Teater Garasi/Garasi Performance Institute’s newest production, which departs from the reading and reflection of order and disorder.
The production, directed by Yudi Ahmad Tajudin, is a further exploration and a development of Teater Garasi’s collective art projects since 2008 that include Je.ja.l.an (The Streets) and Tubuh Ketiga (Third Body), which are an attempt to investigate how the explosion of voices and narratives (ideology, religion, and identity) in post-1998 Indonesia has created and unveiled tension and violence—both new and latent.
After our exploration and presentation of the theme through The Streets (2008) and Third Body (2010), Time is Transient. We are Eternal is a more reflective journey to the inner world, the interior of the theme. The piece wants to see and perform how the post-1998 situations in Indonesia affect the new situation and formation of subject(ivities). In other words, how the explosion of voices and narratives in post-1998 Indonesia interrupt, disturb, shape and move the “subjects.”
Before arriving at the more complete presentation, which will be premiered on June 23 and 24, 2015, our investigation has resulted in a short performance (30 minutes), titled Sehabis Suara (After the Voices), staged in Erasmus Huis in Jakarta on March 26, 2014. The work-in-progress performance was part of the ceremony in which Teater Garasi received Prince Claus Award from the then Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia Tjeerd de Zwaan.
The incipient performance received a warm welcome from the audience and the media. The public reception has become an important encouragement for Teater Garasi to develop After the Voices into a deeper, full performance. And we changed the title into: Time is Transient. We are Eternal. We borrow the words from Sapardi Djoko Damono’s 1978 poem title, because we think that the poem title is an apt representation of our work.
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