Kebun Tetangga adalah kebun Kolektif yang berada di Samata, Gowa. Berfokus pada teknik-teknik perkebunan alami, dan ruang aman untuk belajar bertani dan gaya hidup berkelanjutan. Kebun Tetangga menjadikan perkebunan sebagai media untuk berbicara tentang lingkungan, isu urban, dan pangan lokal.

Terkait pangan lokal, Kebun Tetangga memiliki program reguler tiap bulannya, yaitu Masak Bareng Tetangga. Program masak ini merupakan inisiasi tim dapur tetangga yang percaya bahwa komunikasi terbaik ada di meja makan. Para #TemanTetangga akan panen, mengolah bahan, masak dan makan bersama. Setiap sesi #MasakBareng akan ditutup dengan sinrilik/dongeng yang menceritakan bagaimana kehidupan manusia & alam di masa lampau.

#TemanTetangga = pengunjung yang datang di Kebun Tetangga

Kebun Tetangga is a collective garden located in Samata, Gowa. Focuses on natural gardening techniques, and a safe place for learning farming and sustainable lifestyle. Neighbors Garden uses farming as a medium to disseminates environmental, urban, and local food issues.

As for the local food, Kebun Tetangga has organized a monthly regular program, that is Cooking with Neighbors. This cooking program was set up by neighbors kitchen team who believe that the best conversation happens on the dining table. Those #NeighborFriends would harvest, process, cook and eat meal together. Every #CookingTogether session concluded with a sinrilik, story telling, that recount the life story of human and nature in the past.

#NeighborFriends = visitors of Kebun Tetangga.

Gymnastik Emporium merupakan proyek seni lintas-disiplin, tiga tahun terakhir mengerjakan karya-karya dengan basis pendekatan bersama warga dan membongkar Batasan antara seni dan bidang-bidang lain. Karya-karya Gymnastik Emporium kerap bermain pada aspek pertunjukan yang ada pada bidang non-seni.

Proyek seni ini digerakkan oleh Muhammad AB sebagai produser, Irfanuedding Ghozali sebagai direktur artistic, Fajar Riyanto dan Kurnia Yaumil sebagai visual designer, Ari Dwianto dan Abdi Karya sebagai koreografer, dan Vandy Rizaldi sebagai sound designer.

Residensi dan penampilan Gymnastik Emporium pada perhelatan Makassar Biennale 2023 diadakan dalam kolaborasi dengan Indonesian Dance Festival.

Gymnastik Emporium is a cross-disciplinary art project, fro the last three years works based on the community approach and breaking down the boundaries between art and other fields. The works of Gymnastik Emporium often play on performance aspects that exist in the non-art sector.

This art project is driven by Muhammad AB as producer, Irfanueddin Ghozali as artistic director, Fajar Riyanto and Kurnia Yaumil as visual designers, Ari Dwianto and Abdi Karya as choreographers, and Vandy Rizaldi as sound designer.

The Gymnastik Emporium residency and appearance at the Makassar Biennale 2023 event was held in collaboration with the Indonesian Dance Festival.

Sokola Pesisir, salah satu peserta residensi MB 2023, terletak di Kecamatan Mariso yang wilayahnya berbatasan langsung dengan Pantai Losari. Sokola Pesisir merupakan inisiatif yang lahir dari hasil pembacaan kondisi rendahnya kemampuan calistung di wilayah Mariso saat pertama kali mereka berkunjung ke sana di tahun 2004, serta tingginya proses perkembangan kota yang sangat pesat di wilayah yang kini metropolitan itu.

Sokola Pesisir percaya bahwa semua anak berhak mendapatkan pendidikan berkualitas sejak dini, sebab jenjang pendidikan ini sangat penting untuk perkembangan anak dan juga sebagai support sistem bagi keluarga.

Sokola Pesisir, one of MB 2023 resident artists, located in Mariso District, an area adjacent to Losari Beach. Sokola Pesisir is an initiative born out of identifying how low Calistung ability, reading-writing-arithmetic ability, in Mariso area when they visited the area for the first time in 2004, as well as the high development rate of the area which has turned it into now a metropolitan area.

Sokola Pesisir believes in the rights of all children to have a proper and good education at an early age, since early childhood education is very important for the development of the child and provides supporting system for the whole family.

Alghifahri Jasin, lahir di Ujung Pandang dan menetap di kota Makassar, merupakan lulus Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, jurusan Sastra Indonesia, Universitas Hasanuddin & menempuh pendidikan informal di Institut Sastra Makassar. Album puisinya Rencana Penipuan (2021) rilis di beberapa platform digital, ia juga telah menerbitkan buku Kunjungan Singkat ke Rumah (2022)

Alghifahri Jasin, born in Ujung Pandang and resides in Makassar, graduated from Hasanuddin University, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Department of Indonesian Literature. He also studied at Institut Sastra Makassar, an informal literary education institute. His spoken word poetry album released on various digital platforms in 2021, also published a book, Kunjungan Singkat ke Rumah, in 2022.

Lahir di Tulungagung 1957, lulusan Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Yogyakarta, Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain, Jurusan Seni Lukis. Ia telah melakukan sejumlah pameran bersama maupun pameran tunggal. Tahun 2007 menerbitkan Moelyono: “Pak Moel Guru Gambar” (INSIST, Yogyakarta). Terbaru di 2022, Moelyono mendapatkan penghargaan Life Time Achievement Award, Pameran Nandur Srawung #9, UPTD Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, setelah sebelumnya mendapatkan Anugerah Seni oleh Kemendikbud pada 2014.

Rentang tahun 2005 hingga 2012, ia juga aktif bekerja lepas sebagai konsultan dan fasilitator program ECCD–Early Childhood Care and Development–dengan LSM: Plan International, WVI, Save the Children di daerah Pacitan, Ponorogo, Papua: Keerom, Port Numbay, Wamena; Aceh; NTT: Kupang, Rote, P.Alor; Sulawesi: Banggai, Poso, Tentena; Nias; Kalbar: Singkawang, Sungai Pinyu, Sambas, Pontianak; Maluku: Pulau Seram

Born in Tulungagung 1957, graduated from ISI Yogyakarta, Faculty of Fine Art and Design, Department of Painting. He has had numbers of solo or group exhibitions. Published a book in 2007, Moelyono: “Pak Moel Guru Gambar” (INSIST, Yogyakarta). In 2002, Moelyono received the Lifetime Achievement Award, held Nandar Sarung #9 exhibition, UPTD Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, after previously received the Art Award from Ministry of Education and Culture in 2014.

He was also actively working from 2005 to 2012 as a freelance consultant and facilitator for ECCD, Early Childhood Care and Development, for NGO, Plan International, WVI, Save the Children in Pacitan area, Ponorogo, Papua: Keerom, Port Numbay, Wamena; Aceh; NTT: Kupang, Rote, P. Alor; Sulawesi: Sulawesi: Banggai, Poso, Tentena; Nias; Kalbar: Singkawang, Sungai Pinyu, Sambas, Pontianak; Maluku: Seram Island.

Yahyakhan Natadias, akrab disapa Dias, adalah seorang desainer grafis dan juga seorang seniman lukis. Dias mempunyai unit usaha jasa mural bernama Elmurales. Karya-karya Dias dalam seni lukis selalu beririsan dengan komedi, seperti meme, yang menjadi inspirasi karya lukis Dias.

Yahyakhan Natadias, friends call him Dias, a graphic designer and painter. Dias owns a mural painting business called Elmurales. Dias artworks always contained comedy, such as meme, as the source of inspiration in his artworks.

Alifah Melisa (Jakarta, 1993) adalah seorang manager seni juga seorang seniman. Ia merupakan lulusan Program Studi Cina, Universitas Indonesia.

Saat ini, Melisa memanajeri proyek Hoppla: Antologi, salah satu program riset dari HEX Foundation. The Hoppla Extended Asia Foundation sendiri merupakan sebuah cara untuk melihat potensi generasi muda dalam pengembangan seni berbasis teknologi internet di Indonesia dan Asia, juga sebagai media distribusi pengetahuan seni berbasis teknologi internet.

Melisa juga pernah menjadi koordinator Milisifilem, salah satu platform dari Forum Lenteng dalam mempelajari film melalui berbagai eksperimen visual. Ia juga pernah bekerja untuk Jakarta Film Week sebagai asisten program. Di waktu luangnya, Melisa senang menggambar apa saja.

Alifah Melisa  (Jakarta, 1993) is an art manager and artist. She graduated from Chinese Studies, Universitas Indonesia.

She is the project manager for Hoppla: Antologi, one of the research programs from the HEX Foundation (The Hoppla Extended Asia Foundation is one way to see the potential of youth or new generations in developing Internet technology-based art in Indonesia and Asia and as a medium for distributing Internet technology-based art knowledge).

She was the coordinator for Milisifilem, a platform from Forum Lenteng for studying film through many visual experiments, and she also worked for Jakarta Film Week as a program assistant. In her spare time, she also likes to draw anything.

Aristofani Fahmi lahir di Bulukumba, Sulawesi Selatan tahun 1980. Bermusik sejak Sekolah Menengah Karawitan Indonesia (SMKI) di Gowa, Sulawesi Selatan, lalu melanjutkan studi pada jurusan Etnomusikologi ISI Surakarta. Pasca studi, minat menulisnya berkembang dan menjadi jurnalis di Koran Tempo Makassar, dan lebih banyak mengulas isu sosial politik.

Sejak tahun 2012, ia aktif mengajar Ilmu Estetika, dan Musik Nusantara di Universitas Islam Riau dan di SMA Cendana. Bersamaan dengan itu, Aristofani juga aktif bermusik, melakukanriset, serta menjadi manager program di Riau Rhythm. Tahun 2021, ia menerima Ford Global Fellowship dari Ford Foundation dengan isu indigenous and traditional artist in crisis.

Aristofani menjabat Sekretaris Pengurus Koalisi Seni Indonesia sejak tahun 2022, dan pada awal tahun 2023 Aristofani kemudian membentuk dan memimpin lembaga Konstelasi Artistik Indonesia. Lembaga ini fokus pada riset dan pemanfaatan seni budaya Nusantara melalui produksi pengetahuan, eksplorasi artistik, dialog hingga kerja diplomasi kebudayaan people to people untuk aktivasi ekosistem seni yang berpihak pada pelaku seni budaya.

Aristofani Fahmi born in Bulukumba, South Sulawesi, in 1980. He has been playing music since he was studying at Sekolah Menengah Karawitan Indonesia in Gowa, South Sulawesi, and continued his study at the Ethnomusicology Department of ISI Surakarta. After graduation, his interest in jurnalistic writing peaked and he became a journalist at Koran Tempo Makassar, where he covered much about social and political issues instead.

Since 2012 he has been teaching Aesthetic Sciences and Indonesian Music at Universitas Islam Riau and SMA Cendana. While still actively playing music, doing researches and being a program manager at Riau Rhythm. In 2021 he received Ford Global Fellowship from Ford Foundation for the indegenous and traditional artist in crisis.

Aristofani is in charge as Secretary of Management Board of Indonesian Arts Coalition since 2022. In early 2023 Aristofani then founded and directed the Indonesian Artistic Constellation. This organization focuses on researches and utilizing Indonesian culture and art through propagation of knowledge, artistic exploration, dialog, even people to people diplomatic efforts for the establishment of art ecosystem that serves the art and culture practitioners.

Thania Petersen, seorang seniman multidisiplin yang menggunakan fotografi, performans dan instalasi untuk mengatasi kerumitan dan kompleksitas identitasnya dalam kondisi terkini di Afrika Selatan. Islam menjadi sumber acuan terbesar Petersen dan dalam membangun kesadaran tentang praktik-praktik keagamaan, budaya dan tradisional.

Teruntai dalam karyanya sejarah imperialisme kolonialis di Afrika, Asia dan Timur Tengah, serta dampak sosial budaya dari budaya konsumerisme barat. Karyanya juga mengacu pada berbagai budaya Tanjung Melayu yang ia warisi, serta praktik upacara sufi dalam Islam.

Karya-karyanya ditampilkan di pelbagai koleksi pribadi dan publik termasuk di World Cultures Museum Rotterdam (Belanda), Smithsonian Museum (Washington DC), Oscar Niemeyer Museum Curitiba (Brasil), The Durban Art Gallery, The IZIKO South African National Gallery, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), The Kilbourn Collection, The Jochen Zeitz Collection (Afrika Selatan), and The Yeojoo City Collection (Korea Selatan).

Thania Petersen is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses photography, performance and installation to address the intricacies and complexities of her identity in contemporary South Africa. Petersen’s reference points sit largely in Islam and in creating awareness about its religious, cultural and traditional practices.

Threads in her work include the history of colonialist imperialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well as the social and cultural impact of westernised consumer culture. Her work is also informed by her Cape Malay heritage, and the practice of Sufi Islamic religious ceremonies. 

Petersen is represented in various public and private collections including World Cultures Museum Rotterdam (Netherlands), Smithsonian Museum (Washington DC), Oscar Niemeyer Museum Curitiba (Brazil), The Durban Art Gallery, The IZIKO South African National Gallery, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), The Kilbourn Collection, The Jochen Zeitz Collection (South Africa), and The Yeojoo City Collection (South Korea).

Jim Allen Abel, akrab disapa Jimbo, kelahiran Luwu, Sulawesi Selatan, pada tahun 1975. Jimbo menempuh pendidikan di Interior Design Department, Modern School of Design di Yogyakarta (1996-1997) lalu melanjutkan pendidikannya di Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta, pada 1997 sampai 2005.

Jimbo telah aktif mengikuti pameran dan residensi sejak tahun 2000an awal. Karya Jimbo pertama kali dipamerkan pada tahun 2003 dalam beberapa pameran bersama yaitu: “LOVE” Art Fotografi di Kita Gallery, Bandung; “Gelar Seni ISI Jogjakarta” di National Gallery, Jakarta; dan Keren dan Beken (Mes56): Countrybution 7th Yogyakarta Biennale, di TBY, Yogyakarta. Pada tahun 2011, Jimbo melangsungkan pameran tunggalnya bertajuk Uniform_Code, D Gallery, di Jakarta.

Jim Allen Abel, friends call him Jimbo, born in Luwu, South Sulawesi, in 1975. Jimbo enrolled in the Interior Design Department at Modern School of Design in Yogyakarta (1996-1997) then continued his study at Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, from 1997 to 2005.

Jimbo has participated in exhibitions and resident programs since early 2000s. His artwork was presented for the first time on several group exhibitions such as: “LOVE” Art Photografic at Kita Gallery, Bandung; “Gelar Seni ISI Jogjakarta” at National Gallery, Jakarta; and Keren dan Beken (Mes56): Countybution 7^th Yogyakarta Biennale, at TBY, Yogyakarta. In 2011, JImbo held his solo exhibition titled Uniform_Code, at D Gallery, Jakarta.

Ais Nurbiyah Al-Jum’ah, lahir di desa Tabo-Tabo, Pangkep, dan mulai mendokumentasikan kehidupan sosial-budaya kampung kelahirannya pada tahun 2021, menghasilkan proyek film dokumenter Rumah Diri (2023).

Pada tahun 2022 mengikuti program relawan pendidikan di masyarakat pedalaman To Wana, Sulawesi Tengah selama sebulan dan menghasilkan film dokumenter Sema Sangamu? (Siapa Namamu?) (2022).

Ais memulai pengalaman menulis sejak SMA hingga sekarang. Ia sempat bekerja sebagai reporter dan editor di berbagai media, seperti Rakyatku.com, Lontar.id, dan sebagainya. Opini & esainya pernah dimuat di Kompas, Fajar, Republika, dll. Ia juga telah menerbitkan buku tunggal Essai Menyair (Omera Pustaka: 2018), serta menjadi editor sejumlah buku.

Saat ini, Ais kembali tinggal di desanya sambil menjadi freelance penulis dan pembuat konten audio-visual. Ais bisa ditemui melalui akun Instagram @aisnurbiyah_ dan surel di aisnurbiyah@gmail.com

Ais Nurbiyah Al-Jum’ah, metown, producing the documentary film project Rumah Diri (2023).

In 2022, she participated in an educational volunteer program in the remote To Wana community, Central Sulawesi for a month and produced the documentary film Sema Sangamu? (What’s Your Name?) (2022).

Ais started her writing experience since high school until now. She worked as a reporter and editor for various media such as Rakyatku.com, Lontar.id, and so on. Her writings have been published in Kompas, Fajar, Republika, etc. She published a book “Essai Menyair” (Omera Pustaka: 2018), and also had several experience of books editing.

She is now living in her hometown while working as a freelance writer and audio-visual content creator. Ais can be found via the Instagram account @aisnurbiyah_ and e-mail at aisnurbiyah@gmail.com

Gandhi Eka merupakan lulusan ISI Yogyakarta, jurusan Desain Komunikasi Visual, dan saat ini tengah menempun pendidikan magister Seni Rupa di ITB. Ia telah menerbitkan sejumlah komik, antara lain Kumpulan Kompilasi Komik Gandhi Eka, Mendung Bertulah, dan sebagainya. Ia juga banyak terlibat dalam berbagai pameran di dalam dan luar negeri, seperti Frankfurt Book Fair di Frankfurt, IKKON BEKRAF di Dompu, Sundance Film Festival Asia, dan Indonesia UFO Festival di Yogyakarta.

Ghandi Eka is a graduate of ISI Yogyakarta, Department of Visual Communication Design, and currently studying for Fine Arts master’s degree at ITB. He has published a number of comics, among them are Kumpulan Kompilasi Komik Ghandi Eka, Mendung Bertulah, etc. He has also participated in several exhibitions, local and overseas, such as the Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, IKKON BEKRAF in Dompu, Sundance Film Festival Asia, and Indonesia UFO Festival in Yogyakarta.

Arman Naim, akrab disapa Pio, memulai kiprah keseniannya di dunia musik di masa kuliah dengan membentuk band pada 2007 dan aktif mengikuti festival dan cipta lagu dalam tangga nada di radio sejak saat itu. Di tahun 2007 pula, Pio berhasil memenangkan kompetisi cipta lagu daerah yang digelar Dinas Kelautan dan Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan.

Perjalanan bermusiknya terus ia jaga hingga sekarang dan fokus pada lagu Bugis lawas yang dinyanyikan ulang (cover), juga menciptakan karyanya sendiri dalam bahasa Bugis dan Indonesia dengan berkolaborasi penyanyi muda di Pangkep seperti Sipa’dua Matteru (lagu Bugis) dan Sebelum Musnah bertemakan alam.

Selain bermusik, Pio juga membentuk Komunitas Jalan Cerita (KJC) yang menjadi ruang pendokumentasian narasi budaya Bugis yang dikemas ke dalam film cerita (fiksi) yang juga melibatkan anak muda di Pangkep sebagai pemain.

Bersama komunitasnya, Pio telah merilis tiga judul film yakni Pattado-Tado Ulu (2019), Cenning Rara (2020), Tenri-Pappoji Ana Arung (2022).

Arman Naim, familiarly called Pio, started his artistic career in the music world while in college by forming a band in 2007 and has been actively participating in festivals and composing songs on radio charts since then. Also in 2007, Pio won a regional song creation competition held by the Marine Service and the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) of South Sulawesi.

He continues his musical journey until now and focuses on re-singing old Bugis songs, as well as creating his own works in Bugis and Indonesian languages by collaborating with young singers in Pangkep such as Sipa’dua Matteru (Bugis song) and Sebelum Musnah, song about nature.

Apart from making music, Pio also formed the Komunitas Jalan Cerita (KJC) which became a space for documenting Bugis cultural narratives packaged into fiction films, involving young people in Pangkep as its performers.

Together with his community, Pio has released three film titles namely Pattado-Tado Ulu (2019), Cenning Rara (2020), Tenri-Pappoji Ana Arung (2022).

Husain Abdullah, seniman graffiti dan tattoo artist, melalui karya muralnya di beberapa titik tembok di Pangkep, menandai jejaknya dengan tulisan ‘Cenk’ yang kemudian melekat pada dirinya.

Selain mengerjakan mural dan tato, Cenk juga mengolah ilustrasi dan art handling.

Saat ini, Cenk terlibat di beberapa sirkuit jaringan seperti Pena Hitam, Ritus Street, dan Siku Ruang Terpadu. Dari pengalamannya berjejaring, ia berkesempatan ikut di berbagai pameran dan kerja kolektif.

Husain Abdullah, a graffiti and tattoo artist, started his mural works at several spots in Pangkep, tag his work with ‘Cenk’ that later on became his nickname.

Apart from producing mural and tattoo, Cenk also does illustration art and art handling.

Currently, Cenk is actively involved in several art networks, such as Pena Hitam, Ritus Street, and Siku Ruang Terpadu. By his involvement in these networks, he managed to participate in a number of exhibitions and collective projects

Merupakan lulusan jurusan ekonomi Universitas Negeri Makassar, Mey aktif dan bergerak di komunitas pendidikan untuk anak-anak di daerah terpencil. Tahun 2014, Mey menginisiasi gerakan peduli pendidikan untuk anak-anak di daerah terpencil yang diberi nama Sokola Kaki Langit (2014).

Mey saat ini sedang aktif dalam berbagai gerakan-gerakan seni dan pertunjukan serta sastra untuk anak-anak SMA di kabupaten Soppeng.

A graduate of Universitas Negeri Makassar, Economic Sciences Department, Mey actively involved in education community for children in remote areas. In 2014, Mey initiated education initiative for children in remote areas called Sokola Kaki Langit.

This day, Mey is actively involved in various art and performance initiatives along with literacy initiatitves for highschooler in Soppeng.

Mulai belajar fotografi sejak tahun 2008, Dwi Julian kemudian mendirikan Shoot Photography School pada tahun 2012. Laki-laki kelahiran Parepare ini juga merupakan seorang dosen fotografi, dan telah memproduseri dan menyutradarai sejumlah film dokumenter.

Starting to study photography since 2008, Dwi Julian then founded Shoot Photography School in 2012. Julian, who was born in Pare-Pare, is also a photography lecturer, and has produced and directed a number of documentary films.

Supriadi, akrab disapa Riady, merupakan founder Pasere, organisasi yang bergerak di bidang pelestarian budaya, serta Sanggar Seni To Riamasei. Selain menggarap tari-tarian, laki-laki kelahiran Malaysia, 1995, ini juga aktif menggarap naskah teatrikal, antara lain Manisha Harsada (2022), dan Paseng Pangadereng (2023).

Supriadi, or Riady as friends called him, is the founder of Pasere, an organization focused on preservation of cultural heritage, along with Sanggar Seni To Riamasei. Besides working on dance coreographies, this Malaysia-born 28 years old guy has also worked on play scripts, among them are Manisha (2022), and Paseng Pangadereng (2023)

Aldizar Ahmad Ghifari merupakan seniman keramik yang tergabung pada komunitas Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF), Jawa Barat. Kegiatannya banyak berfokus pada pergerakan anak muda melalui media tanah liat, desain, dan pertunjukan. Ia juga aktif membuat kelas-kelas perkeramikan bersama Posko Suara.

Tahun 2021 ia membentuk tim desain “an3Dis” yang bergerak di bidang arsitektur, serta “Tiny-uh”, projek performatif audio visual yang memadukan kopi, teh, dan rempah dengan bunyi yang dihasilkan dari alat seduh.

Aldizar Ahmad Ghifari is a ceramic artist and member of Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF) collective, West Java. His activity mostly focused on youth initiatives through clay art, design, and performances. He has also been opening ceramic art classes with Posko Suara.

In 2021 he formed a design team “an3Dis” venturing in architecture field, and “Tiny-uh”, an audio-visual performance project that incorporates coffee, tea, and spices along with sounds coming from brewing tools.

Muhamad Ilham (1995), terafiliasi sebagai seniman, desainer, direktur Happy Morning Studio, dan juga sebagai tim pengembang Perhutana. Karyanya berkisar pada ilustrasi, mural, pola, desain batik, elemen artistik pada fasad, seni video, proyek audio, dan pameran seni.

Tinggal dan berkarya di Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF), sebuah kolektif seni rupa kontemporer sebagai bagian dari wacana kehidupan lokal di pedesaan Jatiwangi, Jawa Barat, yang merupakan daerah sentra pembuatan genteng terbesar di Indonesia. JaF mengeksplorasi lahan dan pengetahuan lokal melalui seni dan kolaborasi multidisiplin. Jatiwangi art Factory juga fokus mengkaji bagaimana praktik seni dan budaya kontemporer dapat dikontekstualisasikan dengan kehidupan lokal di pedesaan, baik bentuk maupun gagasan.

Ilham juga terlibat dalam tim peneliti kota terakota, menginventarisasi aset budaya lokal yang ada, menerapkan unsur estetika dalam bentuk grafis atau visual.

Muhamad Ilham (1995), affiliated as an artist, designer, director of Happy Morning Studio, and also as a developer team of Perhutana. His work revolves around illustrations, murals, patterns, batik designs, artistic elements on facades, video art, audio projects and art exhibitions.

Lives and works at Jatiwangi Art Factory (JaF), a contemporary art collective as part of the local life discourse in the Jatiwangi village, West Java, which is the largest tile-making center in Indonesia. JaF explores land and local knowledge through art and multidisciplinary collaborations. Jatiwangi Art Factory also focuses on studying how contemporary art and cultural practices can be contextualized with local life in rural areas, both in form and in ideas.

Ilham is also involved in the terracotta city research team, taking inventory of existing local cultural assets, applying aesthetic elements in graphic or visual form.

Robert ‘Chi’ Machiri lahir di Zimbabwe pada tahun 1978. Machiri merupakan ‘pekerja bunyi’, seorang DJ, penimbun berbagai hal berdasar pada ingatan musiknya dan minatnya akan benda bebunyian. Karyanya hadir dari persilangan dua ranah berbeda, proyek kuratorial dan produksi seni yang disajikan berbalut kritik; suatu proses belajar dan menghapusnya hingga menjalin bunyi, musik dan pembuatan citra/gambaran. PUNGWE, proyeknya yang paling dikenal merupakan suatu proyek ‘anti-disipliner’ yang menghadirkan bunyi-bunyi khas Afrika dengan diskursus dan ruang seni kontemporer terkait.

Robert ‘Chi’ Machiri born in 1978, in Zimbabwe. Machiri is a ‘sound worker’, a DJ and hoarder of things inspired by his biographical recollection of music and interest in sonic objects. His work exists at the juncture of two streams of practice, curatorial projects and art production presented through an embodied critique; a process of learning and unlearning that interweaves sound, music and image-making. His most notable project PUNGWE is an ‘anti-disciplinary’ project that circles African soundings with related contemporary arts discourses and spaces.

Ellya Alexander Tebay, lahir di Enarotali, 1979, adalah seorang seniman yang telah lama aktif melukis di studio, alam bebas, dan terlibat pada sejumlah event budaya di Bali, Jakarta, Jogja dan Papua.

Ia merupakan lulusan ISI Bali, program studi Desain Komunikasi Visual. Selama menjadi mahasiswa, ia sempat mengambil kursus Bahasa Inggris & pariwisata. Hal ini yang kemudian mengantarkannya melanjutkan pendidikan hingga ke Swiss & Austria, lalu kini bekerja sebagai ASN dinas pariwisata Nabire, Papua Tengah.

Sepulang dari tanah rantauan, Ellya sempat mengabdikan dirinya menjadi pengajar seni rupa dan Bahasa Inggris di beberapa sekolah dan kampus di Nabire, namun berhenti karena kondisi kesehatannya yang sempat turun.

Kini, selain aktif sebagai ASN, ia juga meluangkan waktu untuk tetap melukis di studio kecil di samping rumahnya meski dengan banyak keterbatasan. Salah satu karya lukis Ellya digunakan oleh I Ngurah Suryawan dalam bukunya berjudul “Mencari Sang Kejora: Fragmen-Fragmen Etnografi” (2014).

Ellya Alexander Tebay, born in Enarotali, 1979, is a long-time artist who has been painting in various place; studios, in nature, as well as been involved in a number of cultural events in Bali, Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Papua.

He graduated from Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Bali, majoring in Visual Communication Design. During his time as a student, he took courses in English & tourism. This then led him to continue his education to Switzerland & Austria, and his recent works as a civil servant for the Nabire Department of Tourism and Culture, Central Papua.

After returning from overseas, Ellya had devoted himself teaching fine arts and English at several schools and campuses in Nabire, but stopped due to his failing health.

Now, apart from being a civil servant, he also makes time to continue painting in the small studio next to his house, beside every limitations he has. One of Ellya’s paintings is used by I Ngurah Suryawan in his book “Mencari Sang Kejora: Fragmen-Fragmen Etnografi” (2014).

Pada tahun 2019, ia ikut mendokumentasikan pembuatan film Bike Boyz dan Preman Pensiun. Pada tahun 2019 juga, Jebulon Bunai mengikuti kelas profesional photography di salah satu sekolah Angin Photo School di Bandung. Ia telah menjuarai berbagai kompetisi fotografi.

Jebulon Bunai, lahir di desa Bonakunu, Kampung Gopouya, dan mulai memotret sejak bangku kuliah di Bandung, 2017.

Saat ini, Jebulon Bunai menjabat sebagai humas di provinsi Papua Tengah.

Jebulon Bunai, born in Bonakunu, Gopouya Village, and started his photography career since college in Bandung, 2017.

In 2019, he took part in documenting the filming of Bike Boyz and Preman Pensiun. Also in 2019, Jebulon Bunai took part in a professional photography class at the Angin Photo School in Bandung. He has won various photography competitions as well.

Currently, Jebulon Bunai serves as a public relations officer in the province of Central Papua.