Yoyoyogasmana

Performance and Artist  Talk
Thursday, November 30, 2006

From Bandung, Yoyoyogasmana has performed extensively throughout Asia,
Europe, South America and North America. He is closely associated with the
Bandung Performance Art Community, the International Association of
Volunteers, and the International Association of Performance Art
Organizers.

Photographs of the performance here

HIs artist statement, available on his website at yoyoyogasmana.multiply.com
begins with the following background, excerpted here:

"Beginning from witnessing a sorrowful situation and condition in the
country, competition of interests among one individual with another, among
one community group and another, group with government, among political
elites, and even among the countries. This competition does not lead to a
solution but it creates a complicated upside down situation in all lines
of human life. This kind of sorrow is called emergency for community life.

The country is absolutely in crisis, I would like to see this as
catastrophic emergency that devastates societal life. The country which is
this critical situation is close to crimes everywhere which are very close
to our reality of life. This is really a menacing fact to face by the
societal members. In creating work of arts, I do not refer to situation of
a certain country, I prefer to say that this kind of crisis might happen
in any country in the world. This might happen to us, to me, to you, to
our family, our neighbors, our environment, to us all, possibly without
our awareness involved within."
 

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