Going Solo: That's Ant-ertainment!

Although some of the ceremonial dances, associated with the Ants has diminished, the Death Dance remains firmly a topoi in Seni Video performances by L.C. von Sukmeister. In his Wonder World of Video Art at Surakarta the Death Dance is a re-enacted tale from the great Hindu epic poems, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. This kind of Ant-ertainment was once widespread in Art Today (Lying/Liam Gillick) or Global Art (Hans Belting) and is still frequent in Indonesia in the form of Death Dances, Ant shows, and video performances. The prop animal, which is in this case the cockroach, appears and reappears, sometimes necessary to the plot, sometimes simply as part of the costuming.




Credits:
Art Director: Anton Slamet Wahyono bin Kasturi
Cinematographer: Le Complice
Associate Producer: Leopold Chrétien
Set Designer: Ants of Solo
Prop: Cockroach in Rest
Sound Editor: P. Weller
Location: Surakarta (Indonesia)
Location Details: Solo (Surakarta, Indonesia), Jalan Kemlayan Kidul
Date: 25 October 2009
Script: E. Frey, The Ants, Mystic Weapons of the Malay World (1988), p. 22
Series: Beyond Belanda: Seni Kontemporer
FUCK SEX ! LOVE ART
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• İstanbul Biennial
• Venice Biennial
• Singapore Biennale
• Liam Gillick
• Seni Kontemporer
• Agung Kurniawan
• Jompet Kuswidananto
• Cemeti Art House
• Nadi Gallery
• Anton Slamet Wahyono
• dukun Suram Wahyono
• Raden Saleh
• Tracy Emin
• Sylvie Fleury
• Banksy
• Surakarta
• Seni Rupa
• Zeina Maasri
• Lagos
• Centraal Museum
• Beyond the Dutch
• Damien Hirst
• Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
• L.C. von Sukmeister
• Cy Twombly