ABDI KARYA
makassar - indonesia
Abdi Karya is a multi-disciplinary artist and cultural programmer from Makassar-South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Through his tradition and heritage from Sulawesi as starting point to encounters with voice, objects, and text, he devised performance-based works and installations to explore and investigate collective memories in various social, political, cultural situation within local-global contexts. He has been presented his works and featurings at interdisciplinary forums in Asia, Australia, Europe, United States, and Africa.
PERFORMANCES
teater-garasi
Abdi uncovers the mystery of a mysterious character named Huhu in the story of Peer Gynt. Coming from a place where his original voice has been erased, Huhu has been stuck on a long journey that has taken him to a psychiatric hospital in Cairo. Several clues from Huhu's monologue led to Abdi's search from Egypt back to his home in the Bugis region of South Sulawesi. This work is part of UrFear: Huhu and the Multitude of Peer Gynts, a performance network based on Henrik Ibsen's reinterpretation of Peer Gynt from the point of view of the global south. Creating a network of operations with different performance in a modular approach with artists from different disciplines and ages from Indonesia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Director-Performer:Abdi Karya. Text: Abdi Karya-Ugoran Prasad. Dramaturg & Scenery: Yudi Ahmad Tajudin. Production: Teater Garasi. Supported by Ibsen Scope
EXHIBITIONS
In 2015, with Buku Larrnggay Mulka Centre we started developing collaboration with Yolŋu people to reconnect the shared history & culture between Macassan and First Nation's People in Northern Territory-Australia.After presenting the Yirrkala-Makassar exhibition in 2017, we involved in the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Arts (QAGOMA)
