Group Exhibition Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia
Jakarta Biennale 2013 has taken the theme “SIASAT”. An Arabic loanword, “siyasah” has a wide-ranging meaning in Indonesian. It can mean investigation or criticism, as well as politics, trickery, and tactics. It can also mean “reasoning” with which to achieve certain ends. Through SIASAT, Jakarta Biennale 2013 aims to reexamine how the citizens tackle all kinds of limitations, instabilities, problems, threats, potentials, as well as opportunities they encounter in the cityscape. It takes a look at how these ‘siasat’ are organically grown and established, and how they impact various aspects of the city life.
With the theme “SIASAT” Jakarta Biennale 2013 invites 50 or so individual artists and groups, involving hundreds of city residents and dozens of collaborators from across multitude of disciplines. Aside from Indonesia, also participating in this Biennale are artists from the Netherlands, China, Canada, France, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Germany, Mexico, South Korea, Kenya, Palestine, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, and Malaysia. Most of their works are results of collaboration with citizens and communities, or interventions in public spaces.
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