Empu Sendok Arts Station

01/04/2025

Happy Eid al-Fitr 1446 H! May this special day bring peace, renewed spirit, and endless blessings to you and your loved ones✨

23/02/2023

The summary of our Webinar

Me-llennials? the Fast Changing Reality for Gen Y and Z

14/02/2023

1 day to Healthy Discourse

We are back with “Me-llennials? The fast-changing reality for Gen Y and Z"

Wednesday, February 15
5 PM WIB (Jakarta), 11 AM (Germany), 9 PM (Sydney), 4 AM (Mexico)
📌 Zoom Webinar

Generation Y and Z concerns "Post-covid thinking, relationships, technology, and work-life balance expectations" will be discussed by speakers from four different nations (Indonesia, Germany, Australia, and Mexico).

Then why wait any longer? Sign up today!
Visit https://bit.ly/HealthyDiscourseRSVP

You can also find the RSVP link on our Instagram story,
and discover an idea of discussions between critical young people sharing a diversity of viewpoints.

20/01/2023

Nano and Ratna Riantiarno founded Teater Koma in Jakarta in the year 1997. The philosophy behind the name is to be continuous, never to be finished, and never ever to stop. With Teater Koma he skyrocketed as one of the plays in the world of Indonesian theater.

In Teater Koma’s early days, he wrote most of his stage works, including; Paper House, J.J Atawa Jian Juhro, Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, Contest 1980, Cockroach Opera Trilogy (Time Bomb, Cockroach Opera, Opera Julini), Burisrawa Conglomerate, Golden Triangle Broker, Succession, Prima Donna Opera, Sampek Engtay, Sissy Sue, Opera White Snake, Asylum or Mental Hospital, Greedy Love, Semar Sue, Constipation Opera, President of the Birds, Republic of Bagong, Signs of Love

As an actor, he performed in Woyzeck/Georg Buchner, The Threepenny Opera and The Good Person of Shechzwan/Bertolt Brecht, The Comedy of Error and Romeo Juliet/William Shakespeare, Women in Parliament/Aristophanes, Animal Farm/George Orwell, The Crucible/Arthur Miller, New Rich People and Tartuffe or Republic of Togog/Moliere, The Marriage of Figaro/Beaumarchaise.

During the regime in Indonesia in the 90’s his works were constantly banned but he never stopped, just like said he would.

Farewell Nano Riantiarno….

13/01/2023

Friends deemed him a Modernist, a true Rennaissance man. He is an architect, a designer and a publisher. His work ranges from creating a curved steel espresso machine to super light furniture, designing buildings in 13 countries, 25 years of teaching; fought fascim in both WW1 and WW2. His artistic disciplines has always been open to experimentation as “innovation was a natural fact of evolution”, Ponti reiterates and believed that art was a quotidian necessity – something that should be accessible and functional.

Giovanni “Gio” Ponti was born in Milan, Italy, (1891-1979)

source of picture and quote: Parco Dei Principi, Sorrento, Italy

 

10/01/2023

is a vision of the future necessarily grounded on the reality of today?

It is always a good idea to start the year with fundamental questions.

What is emerging in our hearts?

What are aspirations?

expectations?

Start neutral

clean slate

clarity

Visions may or not be grounded on the reality of today, but may inspire and fill this world and next.

📷 JUNGFRAUJOCH
TOP OF EUROPE
by ESAS 2022

#3,454m

24/12/2022

With the spirit of Christmas, regards from the ESAS team to our friends in Indonesia, Mexico and the world over.

[photo taken by ESAS in Grindelwald, Switzerland 2022]

22/12/2022

A time for reflection…

Photo taken by ESAS in Grindelwald, Switzerland 2022.

12/12/2022

Astari’s latest work last 29 March 2022 exhibited at Galeri Nasional. Farewell and Rest in Peace, dear Astari. Your essence and your work remain in our lives.

07/12/2022

Artists are essentially truth seekers and they are moved by major disruptions in their surroundings or the universe at large or they are moved by a certain irrepressible vision of what is to emerge. They can’t help themselves other than to express their beliefs in some art form or rolled into an influencing movement.

Their voices are evocative, in fact disruptive, evoking discomfort in societies but most often for the better.

05/12/2022

Dutch born visual artist, Mella Jaarsma has made Indonesia her home base. She is very much engaged with the artistic sphere in Yogyakarta where much of her art pieces are created, and exhibited in important platforms from the National Gallery Jakarta to the Venice Bienalle. Her work takes on an anthropological perspective: curious and respectful but, of late, deeply social if not political. In its expression, it is subtle, non-confrontational, clearly decolonizing - triggering us, the viewer, to ask questions, especially when the reality of the past makes for an unsettling feeling when seen from the context today. Her pieces are complex costume installations which reflect her peculiar way to address issues that captures her attention. From everyday objects, to almost extinct animals. Mella also brings to fore her subjects in a way that is evocative, enveloped with a strange or quirky sense of humor. Her focus is on forms of cultural and racial diversity out of the function of clothing and the way applied on the body.

For full version of podcast, link is on bio!

02/11/2022

El Dia de los Mu***os (Day of the Dead) is one of the most prominent syncretic form, a fusion of pre-Hispanic religious rites and Catholic feasts, to conmemorate the transitory return to earth of deceased relatives and loved ones.

It's a festive celebration of remembrance and togetherness. The tradition is celebrated thoughout Mexico but it's yearly dedicated place is in the cemeteries in Michoacan México.

29/10/2022

Arco Renz, performance artist and founder of Kobaltworks Dance Company shares his

24/10/2022

22/10/2022

Suproapto Suryodarmo (Prapto) studied free movement, Vipassana and Javanese Sumarah meditation techniques placing these practices within the nature, temple and human field. He developed a movement practice "Joged Amerta" based on improvisation and perception of our relationship with the natural world and the environment which cultivates an attitude towards life.
 
In 2017 Ines joined Prapto and a group of artists at his uniquely landscaped garden in Solo, Central Java for a whole week. That was the first time that Ines went to Candi Boko and practiced with Prapto. A session that marked her in such way that she has prepared this video as a tribute to the 1,000 days of his passing.

"When he invited me to move it hit me that we, all living creatures, come from one, singular consciuosness. That we are all one" Ines said.
 
As IDF Indonesian Dance Festival 2022 starts today, ESAS remembers Pak Prapto in this special way.
 
Please go to the link in the bio to view the whole film.
 







Suryodarmo

06/10/2022

Deepest condolences on this human tragedy in Kanjuruhan Stadium, East Java. Our thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families.

To find clarity is an absolute necessity not only to heal but to avoid incidents like these from recurring.