#jimmyong

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Mengundang Anda untuk berbicara dengan para makcik. Para makcik ini adalah kolaborator Jimmy Ong untuk karyanya dalam pameran “Makcik Project Episode 2: Kita Semua Manusia”. Para makcik akan berada di KKF sesuai jadwal berikut untuk bercakap dengan Anda yang tertarik untuk berbagi kehidupan para makcik. Daftarkan diri Anda ke Nn. Mara [phone] atau hellodurian(at)gmail(dot)com

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We invite you to come and talk to the makciks. S/he is Jimmy Ong’s collaborator for his work in “Makcik Project Episode #2: We are All Human”. The makciks will be in KKF according to this schedule to talk to anyone of you that’s interested in knowing her up close and personal. Register yourself to Ms. Mara [phone] or hellodurian(at)gmail(dot)com

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Jimmy Ong Bicaralah dengan Dia (2013) Peristiwa, instalasi

Dibantu oleh Tamara Pertamina, Ong membuat dua ruang tamu ala makcik di teras galeri Kedai Kebun. Setiap hari, satu atau dua kolaborator makcik akan hadir untuk berbicara dengan siapapun yang tertarik untuk mengenal mereka secara personal. Setiap kolaborator makcik akan berperan sebagai pemilik rumah, pemilik ruang tamu. Siapapun yang masuk dalam ruang tamu tersebut akan menjadi tamu mereka. Pengunjung diberikan kesempatan untuk bertukar tiga pertanyaan dalam waktu kurang lebih 15 menit.

Ong membuka kesempatan bagi siapapun yang ingin mengenal para makcik dengan dari perspektif yang lebih dekat dan personal. Pada waktu yang bersamaan, Ong ingin menghadirkan zona netral bagi publik dan para makcik, sekaligus mempertanyakan stigma sosial perihal makcik.

Pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang diajukan di ruang tamu akan diakumulasikan ke dalam instalasi ini. Setiap harinya kami akan mengumumkan jadwal kehadiran para makcik. Mohon tidak mengambil foto dan mereka percakapan dalam ruang tamu ini.

Klik di sini untuk melihat pertanyaan-pertanyaan sebelumnya.

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Jimmy Ong Talk to Her (2013) Happening, residual installation

With the assistance of Makcik Tamara, Ong created two Makcik styled living rooms on the terrace of the gallery. Each day, one or two makcik collaborators will be present to talk to anyone. Each makcik collaborator becomes the hostess, or the homeowner. Anyone who enters the living room becomes her guest. During each encounter, both the hostess and the guest are granted at least three questions or 15 minutes to ask of each other.

With one-on-one dyad, Ong opens up a chance for people to know the makciks up close and personal. At the same time, Ong is also setting a neutral ground between the makciks and the public, attempting to void the existing social stigma surrounding the makciks for 15 minutes. 

The questions asked by the guests of the living room will be accumulated  and woven into the living room as a residual installation. Makcik presence will be announced. No photograph or audio recording in the Makcik Living Room

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Jumping in to Jimmy & Al's talk

JIO: Pink is feminine, the Makciks seems to have pink on one of their walls.

FEA: No, blue is feminine in the Java culture, said Ferial

GRS: Come on! Almost every makciks have some element of pink with them...

JIO: Paper cut out as simulated tiles is sensitive as labour intensive sacrifice

FEA: No, paper cutting is cheap and tacky.

GRS: The fragility of the paper and the difficulty of dealing/installing it so that it does not immediately look cheap and tacky makes the idea even stronger and somehow more poetic towards sacrifice labour

JIO: Plywood board over windows is aggressive.

FEA: No, plywood cover is clean and sophisticated.

GRS: What are you talking about? If you treat the plywood right, it may look just like a wall? Or?

JIO: Raised platform makes it like going up into a room.

FEA: No, raised platform is like a stage

GRS: Raised platform is like a stage

JIO: ... We can well start another project, what is imitating transgender taste, what women and men think would make a transgender interior.

FEA: Yesterday Malcolm mentioned a film project involving down syndrome kids. The director has cast some normal actors. But the down syndrome cast insist on commenting and directing the normal actors, as they know how to behave like a real down syndrome.

JIO: Time to ask the Makciks themselves.

GRS: Why do you talk about the makciks as if they're characters in film? As if you can't ask them directly? Why is Al immediately resistance?

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Jimmy did a month residency in Jogja. Ferial was Jimmy’s assistant. Lashita started her new research on behalf of RDP and to see whether it could become RDP #2 or not. The community she grew interest to look into is the transvestite’s communities. Together with Sonya, Lashita started exploring the hangout places of the transvestites in the city. (image) Jimmy is interested in RDP #1, especially on how Lashita deals with community. For the RDP #2, Jimmy wants to help Lashita or be involved.

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Jimmy Ong’s test video take. Makcik Renata as both Watu and Sita. The script was adapted from Gunawan Maryanto’s Waktu Batu (Teater Garasi, 2011) by Astrid Reza.