Ritual Everywhere But Nowhere – Buah Semangka Berdaun Sirih
Ritual Everywhere But Nowhere 2019
Ritual Everywhere But Nowhere evokes the precarious tension between loss, separation and hoped of reconciliation experienced by an arrival in a new country. This work is a sentiment of mixing spirituality and sharing, and as we well know, things are simply better when they are shared.
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
Rumi
Performance of sharing Jajan Pasar (Indonesian-Australian delicacies street sweets) with support by Australia Indonesia Youth Association, Indonesian Welfare Association, Tony Twigg and Mayu Kanamori.
Photos credit by Zan Wimberley (Installation) and Stine Baska (Performance)
Performance of Ritual Gathering Jajan Pasar
Performance of Ritual Gathering Jajan Pasar
Performance of Ritual Gathering Jajan Pasar
Ritual Everywhere but Nowhere (Installation)
Detail of Ritual Everywhere but Nowhere (Installation)
Detail of Ritual Everywhere but Nowhere (Installation)
Detail of Ritual Everywhere but Nowhere (Installation)
Detail of Ritual Everywhere but Nowhere (Installation)
Potluck Party: Pai Ti Kong Feast
PARTY
09 October 2021
3–4.30pm
Join us for a potluck party at the gallery drawing on artist Jayanto Tan‘s ceramic ‘soul foods’ in the churchie emerging art prize finalists’ exhibition.
From locked down Sydney where the artist is based, Tan has curated a Pai Ti Kong feast of Nyonya food, inviting the IMA community to come together in the spirit of sharing and gathering.
Tan says: “Silence is a place of great power and healing. I hope to create a ritual gathering feast as a family album. My family is scattered from Indonesia to Taiwan to China to Europe to here in Australia. And through the culture of sweet delicacies, I hope to celebrate and respect the ancestors of my family in a sharing way with the local community.“
Tan’s artwork in ‘the churchie’ was inspired by the myth and tradition of Pai Ti Kong (translated as ‘Praying [to] The Heaven God’) of his mother’s Hokkien ancestry. In this story Hokkien people escaped a violent invasion of their village by hiding in a sugarcane field and praying for their safety. When they survived the attack they emerged and honoured the Heaven God for keeping them safe through presenting offerings.
Jayanto Tan was born and raised in a small town in North Sumatra, Indonesia. As a Chinese-Sumatran living in Sydney, his practice blends Eastern and Western mythologies with the reality of current events. His work has been shown at Verge Gallery, Firstdraft, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asia Art, the Australia-China Institute, the 66th Blake Prize, Incinerator Art Award, and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. He won the 11th Small Sculpture Greenway Art Prize. Tan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from National Art School, Sydney.Potluck Party: Pai Ti Kong Feast
PARTY
09 October 2021
3–4.30pm
Join us for a potluck party at the gallery drawing on artist Jayanto Tan‘s ceramic ‘soul foods’ in the churchie emerging art prize finalists’ exhibition.
From locked down Sydney where the artist is based, Tan has curated a Pai Ti Kong feast of Nyonya food, inviting the IMA community to come together in the spirit of sharing and gathering.
Tan says: “Silence is a place of great power and healing. I hope to create a ritual gathering feast as a family album. My family is scattered from Indonesia to Taiwan to China to Europe to here in Australia. And through the culture of sweet delicacies, I hope to celebrate and respect the ancestors of my family in a sharing way with the local community.“
Tan’s artwork in ‘the churchie’ was inspired by the myth and tradition of Pai Ti Kong (translated as ‘Praying [to] The Heaven God’) of his mother’s Hokkien ancestry. In this story Hokkien people escaped a violent invasion of their village by hiding in a sugarcane field and praying for their safety. When they survived the attack they emerged and honoured the Heaven God for keeping them safe through presenting offerings.
Jayanto Tan was born and raised in a small town in North Sumatra, Indonesia. As a Chinese-Sumatran living in Sydney, his practice blends Eastern and Western mythologies with the reality of current events. His work has been shown at Verge Gallery, Firstdraft, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asia Art, the Australia-China Institute, the 66th Blake Prize, Incinerator Art Award, and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. He won the 11th Small Sculpture Greenway Art Prize. Tan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from National Art School, Sydney.Gathering performance of sharing Jajan Pasar at IMA (Institute of Modern Arts) Brisbane 2021
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Photos credit by Stine Baska
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