Indonesian Artist Ari Bayuaji’s Weaving the Ocean Exhibited at John F. Kennedy Center

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Courtesy of the artist

Weaving the Ocean, an ongoing creative project launched by Indonesian artist Ari Bayuaji, has travelled to numerous locations worldwide and was invited to show at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the US as part of the famous RiverRun Art Festival from April 4 to 16. The project, started in 2020 and was exhibited at Nunu Fine Art Taipei in 2021, involves collaboration of the artist and local residents in Bali, Indonesia. They collect plastic waste along the coast, cleaning and processing it, weaving it into warm pieces of art. This project is not only environmentally sustainable but also established a resilient community during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Franziska Fennert’s project, Monumen Antroposen, expected to finish on December 2022.

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Left: Computer simulation of Monumen Antroposen (Courtesy of the artist); Right: Group photo of Franziska Fennert’s team and visitors from German Embassy of Indonesia at the site of Monumen Antroposen (Courtesy of the artist)

Artist Franziska Fennert’s project, Monumen Antroposen, is expected to finish on December 2022. Funded by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Monumen Antroposen is a project directed by artist Franziska Fennert and accompanied by artist Iwan Wijono, curator Ignatia Nilu, and architect Dhoni Yudhanto. The project aims to construct an enormous architectural complex which takes up to 6000m2 public land 100 meters away from the main dump site of the Yogyakarta region of Indonesia with discarded low-value plastic pressed into stones. According to Fennert, the project attempts to create a circular system for especially plastics and used material in general, and becomes a center for makers, artists and changes to the society.

Ari Bayuaji “ Weaving the Ocean” at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. 5th July - 26 August 2022

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Born in 1975 in Indonesia, Ari Bayuaji currently lives and creates in Montreal and Bali. The “Weaving the Ocean” project put environmental sustainability into practice, Bayuaji hired local residents as his assistants, to help the people in Bali who are severely impacted by the pandemic. This inspiring and touching project has conceived peaceful and heart-warming works, which captured the seascape of Bali. This project will be opened on July 5th at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore after the exhibited in Taipei, Bangkok and Montreal.

Environmental sustainability project of artists-"Weaving The Ocean" by Ari Bayuaji

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This 6-minute short clip elaborates how artivism brings the community together.

Living and creating in Montreal, Canada, Indonesian artist Ari Bayuaji accidentally discovered a large number of plastic ropes tangled in the roots of mangroves near the coast in Sanur, Bali. Thus, he developed “Weaving the Ocean” project, weaving plastic rubbish into art with local residents in Bali.

Besides putting environmental sustainability into practice, Ari employed local residents as his assistants, to help the people in Bali who are severely impacted by the pandemic. The works created in the project “Weaving the Ocean,” the colors are the original colors of the plastic threads. Regardless of the limited color choice, Ari composed settle and gentle color tone in these abstract works.

Through the "Weaving the Ocean” project, step by step, Ari leads the people in Bali to use the substantial power of art to change this town. “I have been sending messages to fellow Balinese about what we can do when business from tourism is no longer available. The answer is to be found in nature,” said Ari Bayuaji.

Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan’s art plan “The Left Wing Project” : 2018.07.21 - 10.10  in Lasalle College of the Arts

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 Artist Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan’s art plan “The Left Wing Project” recently is show on the exhibition, “Two Houses: Politics and Histories in the Contemporary Art Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Chia and Mr. Yeap.”　
This exhibition explores themes of civic life—social justice, labour politics, human rights and nationhood—through 40 works or groups of works made by 35 artists between 1986 and 2018. A fully illustrated catalogue contains texts by 19 authors.
　　
Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan display the gigantic bird wing made by hand-forged sickles, sharp sickles form a contrast to the soft wing, and the risk balance of the two reflect Philippines’ complex reality in modern agricultural society. 
This eye-catching exhibition“Two Houses”comes to Taiwan this year. Started from this early year, Nunu Fine Art had cooperated with artist Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, and Nunu Fine Art became the base camp of The Left Wing Project.”By collecting the used secondhand sickles, the artists take these objects filled with emotions and local memories to reflect the current situations of the lands in Taiwan as well as the difficulties faced the Taiwanese farmers. Through such opportunity, we also seek to fulfill our obligation to our society, and reveal our concern towards our agricultural issues.