CUT THE BORDER PROJECT CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN | HAPPYKVLTxKONTOR 80 | LEIPZIG. July, 2016

'Happykvlt project in Sound of Sand Festival 2015'

I had been in Leipzig for my independent art residency and solo exhibition in Gap|Gap offspace. This time I get KONTOR 80; Torgauer str 80, Leipzig, is an offspace, non-commercial gallery and multi-discipline artist collective. This experience in Leipzig will be another great opportunity for me to establish art-cultural exchange with the local artist and local community.

To be back to Leipzig is like to coming back to my second home but it will also means living away in another country for 3 months, working and living in different atmosphere what is makes me always exciting to meet and blended in different cultures and meet with the local artist is also my main interest and important to develops understanding between artist with different culture and background. SHARING is CARING are the general idea from this project.

My project in KONTOR 80 it will like a manual woodcut print performance, inviting community participants to use their imagination to visualize their real world in their own life experiences. My aim is to provide a medium through which people from different backgrounds can bridge socio-economic, racial and gender gaps. By working together on one work of art, participants will have an opportunity to share ideas about humanity, peace and equality. Breaking down barriers of language, race, and ethnicity to create as one community develops unity and fosters understanding amongst all.

The participants will draw and cut together on one big piece of wood or linoleum, arranged in a circle. They will then manually print the woodcut on fabric or paper, “dancing” together on the woodcut to imitate a modern print-machine. Once finished, they will be able to display the print in their community as an invitation to continue the discussion of their shared humanity.

This project will held on July 2016 and we need you by giving nothing to promote or support financially this project to give the project a chance to come into the world. 

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About The Perks

Title: Fals(e)tory Reader
Medium: Screen printing, Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 16,5'' x 23,2''
Year: 2016
As you know (*not many) In 1965, in Indonesia darkest period of history. The Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ) were blamed for the assassination of six Army generals, between 500,000 to 3 million ‘communist’ people are thought to have been killed during the uprising that led to the political maneuvers of Soeharto. I’m born in 80’s and as like every children, in school the teachers always told me the PKI was the evil one and deserved to be killed. As a kid who learned about the 1965 and from textbooks and then Soeharto forced us to watch his bloody horror propaganda movie every year, I was in wrong side of the history. And later in university time my curiosity lead me to the small research about that. The more I digging the more disturbed and horrified. Back to this artwork that I assume could be a reminder about the false history about the genocide not only in Indonesia but also in another part of the world.

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Fals(e)tory Reader

 Title: Ride on Waves
Medium: Screen printing, Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 16,5'' x 23,2''
Year: 2016
Every time I go to the beach I always wondering about tireless power the waves has. I love to watch them in hours and alwasy has a thought, a question of our existence in life. I always think that sometimes life treat us just like the waves sometimes they are big and strong and sometimes they are gentle and calm. Whatever wave you are on one thing you can be sure of is that they will always come, crash and then smooth. A wave can throw us back to the shore or if we are not careful can suck us in. I’m not a good swimmer and I definitely a bad surfer. But we should to learn how to ride on waves through accepting that energy, knowing the pattern, understanding the energy of a wave, how to deal with that and how to avoid crashing onto the sharp cliffs.

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Ride on Waves

Title: Broken String Affanato
Medium: Screen printing, Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 16,5'' x 23,2''
Year: 2016

As a part-timer musician, a terrible singer and not bad guitar player I know so well that music could heal the sadness although music are expression of happiness. You automatically listen, sing, play music which is suits with your recent emotion. When I play my string-less guitar and start to sing my favorite songs, the dopamine  gets released same pleasures when I eat my favorite meal or the same thing when I get a good morning message from my lover and it all causing an addiction. For me when I play two chords on my broken guitar is equals an orgasm. I can say a good music are only real as long as they last forever? Could I say the same thing about love?

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Broken String Affanato

Title: Have A good Nightmare
Medium: Screen printing, Acrylic on Canvas
Dimension: 16,5'' x 23,2''
Year: 2016

I woke up in the morning, I go to the bathroom, brush my teeth, making coffee and checking my smartphone hoping to get her good morning message or reading some news in online newspaper. My plain canvas standing alone since a week, dried acrylic and the dogs already ate half of my brushes.  It was a glorious morning and my coffee tasted good. Open my front door and the smiling neighbors waved their hands to me, ready to working busy with their ideas  about the sense of power that making money can buy things they need. The just like me working my ass off as hard to selling my paintings to pay the bills. We armed anything as our survival tools. Normal!

But wait, the world isn’t okay! Me and you isn’t okay!

We know that life is not good for people in poor countries whose economies are orientated to luxury goods for export. We know that even in wealthy countries untreated preventable illnesses abound, people enter lifelong debts for their education and housing (if they are lucky) and businesses routinely relocate to where the labor is the cheapest and unsafest.

We know we’re living in utopian capitalism, only the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. Violence, egoism, greed are rooted in society. That facts reminds me about Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World himself describes the book as a ‘Nightmare’. That also reminds me about Stanley Kubric’s Metropolis.

Have a good nightmare!

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Have A Good Nightmare

The Backers. 
I could not be able to craft any beautiful sentences to described my grateful to your supports, contributions and your trust onto this project. You has a delicate heart that touched me deeply. Its my fuel and motivation to make this project running in its purposes. Without you the project would be still in my head’s draft.
May the good karma come to you! With all my respect, thank you!
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The Backers

Project Update:
31/05/2016 | 23:51
An item from our Indiegogo Cut The Border campaign will take a first bus to Bali tomorrow. Thank you so much to you, you give us a nice lullaby tonight.

PROPA GANDHI t-shirt

05/06/2016 | 03:40

Hello good people, we would love to say thank you but we running out the nice words to express how grateful we are and we love to inform you that the last updated about 3 hours ago. We already raised €715, hit 35% from the goal, 786 visits from good people in Germany, Australia, Denmark, Netherlands and United States and 264 referrals its mean this number coming from your shares on your social media.

Keep your eyes to follow this project and we still need a lot of your support THIS PROJECT IS YOURS!