Jathilan Epilepsy
6.XII.2019 - 6.I.2020
Solo show @PamojaGoods in Kraków, Poland
Instalation consist of: Batik on cotton, Pvc coated bamboo, spray on wall
The exhibition is result of a residency that i held at the turn of January and February 2019 in Sesama ( located in Yogyakarta, Java ) thanks to the support of the RazemPamoja Foundation.
6.XII.2019 - 6.I.2020
Pictures by Arek Dec
Small fragment of conversation i had with Adam Gruba, Sesamas CEO
A: (...)My fascination and what I am still looking for in Java, is the spiritual state, Javanese mysticism - which has many faces. One of them is trance dance - jathilan. I showed Stach the places where these ritual performances take place, during which dancers are possed by souls that are no longer in our dimension.
S: I've always had the impression that someone in the audience is going to start trembling soon, and indeed the lady sitting next to me got suddenly a slight attack of epilepsy after staring at the trance for hours.
A: Yes, I saw it too, it is frequent and I had the opportunity to fall into a similar state several times, I also saw my friends fall into it. The experience of energetic entry of "something" into you is hard to present and tell in a rational way. In the rational culture from which we come, the concept of life and death and intermediate states has a very dramatic dimension, we sadly reject what is natural. Mysticism is something funny in Europe, but in a different way, we reject the spiritual dimension of culture in nervous laughter.
