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In the shadows

Kenji Ide

2025

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"The Sentimental Organization of the World" at Crèvecoeur

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Apa refleksimu mengenai presentasi yang kamu lakukan dua minggu lalu?

Kenji: Aku ingat memulai presentasi tersebut dengan sedikit kekhawatiran. Selain kendala bahasa, aku juga tidak yakin bahwa karya-karyaku akan cocok dengan konteks seni di Yogyakarta. Mungkin akan ada yang bertanya apa karyaku termasuk seni atau bukan. Aku menjadi sedikit tidak percaya diri. Namun begitu presentasi dimulai, kekhawatiranku mulai menghilang. Bahasa tidak menjadi masalah. Audiens dapat memahami presentasiku bahkan tertawa karena beberapa hal-hal lucu yang aku katakan. Hal yang terpenting adalah ternyata karya-karyaku sesuai dengan situasi Yogyakarta. Aku selalu tertarik cerita dari orang-orang biasa. Seseorang yang aku temui sehari-hari dan juga teman-teman terdekatku. Hal ini sesuai dengan Yogyakarta dan jaringan lokalnya yang erat. Khususnya dalam lingkup seni budaya, setiap orang saling mengenal dan saling berbagi praktik masing-masing. Aku jadi memiliki ekspektasi untuk membuat pameran di Yogyakarta.

What's your reflections on your talk, two weeks ago?

Kenji: I remember started the talk with some anxiety. Apart from the language issue, I was not sure that my works will fits the art context in Yogyakarta. Maybe someone would questioned whether my works could be consider as art or not. I lost my confidence. But when the presentation started, my anxiety was starting to disappear. Language was not an issue at all. The audience could understand my presentation, and they even laughed at some of my funny stories. The most important thing was my works really fits into Yogyakarta's context. I have interest on stories from ordinary people. Someone whom I meet everyday, and also my closest friends. It fits with Yogyakarta's strong local network. Especially in arts and culture scene, where everyone know each other and share their practices. Now, I have an expectation to do exhibition in Yogyakarta.

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Live Tweet: Artist Talk with Kenji Ide

           Sebentar lg artist talk @kenjiide, seniman Jepang yg sdg residensi di Kunci akan segera mulai. Sila datang! Tersedia teh dan camilan manis. (In few minutes, artist talk with @kenjiide will start. Please come! Tea and snacks are available.)

Selama satu stgh bulan periode residensinya, Kenji berkesempatan utk mengeksplorasi perkembangan seni rupa khususnya seniman muda di Yogya. (For 1,5 months, Kenji will explore the development of contemporary art, particularly among young artists in Yogyakarta)

Dlm kesempatan ini, Kenji akan mempresentasikan karya2 lamanya, serta berbagai temuan2nya selama periode residensi dlm proyek Exchange Room. (In this event, Kenji will presents some of his previous works, along with his findings during this residency period.)

Proyek ini ditujukan utk mendorong perjumpaan kreatif antar pihak2 ts melalui percakapan terfokus, kerja jaringan taktis & aksi yg terarah. (This project aims at endorsing creative encounters through focused conversations, tactical networking, and purposive actions)

Program residensi Kenji Ide mrpkn hasil kerjasama antara KUNCI Cultural Studies Center dan Koganecho Art Management (Yokohama, Jepang). (This residency program is joint cooperation between KUNCI Cultural Studies Center and Koganecho Art Management (Yokohama, Japan).)

Kitamura adlh tmn Kenji sjk kecil. Mrk kuliah seni brsama & lulus brsma juga. Ketika lulus, ke-2nya sama2 tdk tahu apa yg hrs mrk lakukan. (Kitamura is a childhood friend of Kenji. Both of them went to the same art university and graduated together. After graduation, both of them didn't know what to do next.)

Stlh lulus, mrk lama tdk brtemu. Baru2 ini Kitamura menghubungi Kenji & menunjukkan karya2nya. Kenji tdk mengerti apa mksd karya2 Kitamura. (They hadn't meet each other after graduation. Recently, Kitamura contacted Kenji and showed his works. Kenji didn't understand Kitamura's works.)

Kitamura adlh kisah seorg seniman yg bertanya2, apakah yg dibuatnya adlh sebuah karya seni atau bukan, apakah ia seorg seniman atau bukan? (Kitamura is a story of a wandering artist. Is his works an artwork or not? Is he an artist or not?)

Kenji juga menunjukkan karya2 lamanya. Katanya, "Aku membuat karya yang terlihat spt karya seni." (Kenji also show his old works. "I also made works which look like artworks.")

Dulu, karya2 Kenji tdk dipamerkan di galeri atau museum. Ia hny membuat karyanya di studio, memotretnya lalu menunjukkannya pd teman2nya. (In the past, Kenji's work didn't get exhibited in gallery or museum. He only made artworks in studio, took some pictures of the work and showed it to his friends.)

Bagi teman2 Kenji, karyanya menarik, tp tdk spt karya seni. Kenji jg sulit menjlskan apa mksd dr karya2nya, atau knp ia mmbuat karya seni. (For Kenji's friends, his works were interesting, but didn't really look like artworks. Kenji also felt difficult to explain the meaning of his works or why did he make artworks.)

Kenji bertanya2, mengapa sesuatu bisa disebut seni atau bukan seni? Mengapa seseorang bisa dianggap seniman atau bukan seniman? (Kenji was asking himself, "Why something can be consider as an art? Why someone can be consider as an artist?")

Waktu Kenji mengunjungi Jogja, seorang teman dr Jepang mengiriminya email. Katanya Kenji harus menemui seorg seniman muda bernama "Mbak M". (When Kenji was visiting Jogja, he got an email from one of his friends in Japan. This friend suggested Kenji to meet a young artist whose name is "Miss M".)

Temannya agak lupa siapa nama asli Mbak M dan spt apa rupanya. Tapi katanya Mbak M adlh seniman yang sering membuat karya di jalanan Yogya. (His friend didn't remember the face of Miss M or her real name. But Miss M is an artist who made many works on the street of Jogja.)

Sepertinya, dr ciri2 yg diberikan teman Kenji, ini slh satu karya Mbak M yg Kenji temukan di jalanan pic.twitter.com/x3fZflWK (Based on his friend's description, this looks like Miss M's work which Kenji found in the street.)

Igawa & Mbak M adlh tokoh2 rekaan Kenji. Menciptakan tokoh fiksi adlh modus berkarya Kenji. Ia menciptakan artefak2 seolah tokoh itu ada. (Igawa and Miss M are characters which manufactured by Kenji. The production of fictional character is Kenji's method. He created some artefacts to support the existance of these characters.)

Dgn mencipt. tokoh rekaan, Kenji memunculkan peran orang ke-3 sbg subjek dlm komunikasi 2 arah antara ia dgn audiens. (By creating fictional characters, Kenji also produced the third person as subject in a communication process between him and the audience.)

Sementara, biasanya karya seni hanya memunculkan komunikasi 1 arah, di mana seniman bicara dan audiens "membacanya". (Meanwhile, artworks only produced one way communication where involved artist as the speaker and audience as the reader.)

Mengapa Kenji tertarik dengan modus berkarya seperti ini, dan mengapa ia memilih Kitamura atau Mbak M sbg subjek karya2nya? (Why Kenji interested in this kind of method? Why he chose Kitamura and Miss M as subject on his works?)

Apkh modus ini digunakan krn ada ketakutan dr Kenji bhw org tdk dpt memahami karyanya tanpa tahu kisah hidupnya? (Is this method used by Kenji because there are certain doubt that everyone won't understand the work without the artist's stories?)

Ada juga pertanyaan soal authorship (kepengarangan), jika Kenji "hanya" menceritakan karya orang lain, maka dimana perannya sbg pencipta? (There's also question about authorship, if Kenji "only" told stories about other person, then where's his role as the creator?)

Sebagai audiens, kita seperti berada dalam ambiguitas antara fakta dan fiksi ketika melihat karya2 Kenji. (As audience in Kenji's works, we existed in the ambiguity between facts and fictions.)

Bagi Kenji karyanya adlh sebuah karya performans yg juga menggabungkan unsur video, foto dan instalasi. (For Kenji, his works is a form of performance which combine video, photo and instalation.)

Performativitas merupakan unsur yang penting dalam karya2 Kenji. (Performativity is an important aspect in Kenji's works.)

Kenji akan berada di Yogya sampai tgl 18 Des. Teman2 yg tertarik bertemu dan ngobrol dgn Kenji bisa sekali2 main ke kantor kami. (Kenji will stay in Yogyakarta until 18 December 2012. You can come to Kunci, if you have any interest to meet and talk with Kenji Ide.)

(Diambil dari // Taken from, @editorkunci, 13 November 2012.)

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Contemporary Art Diary merupakan rekaman pengalaman Kenji Ide, selama menjalani program residensi Exchange Room di KUNCI Cultural Studies Center. Blog ini akan diperbarui setiap hari. // Contemporary Art Diary is a record of Kenji Ide's experience, during his residency program in Exchange Room with KUNCI Cultural Studies Center. This blog will be updated daily.