‘Survivor’ is a major performance by Dadang Christanto that illustrates the disaster of May 2006 when a botched drilling operation in East Java blew out into a mud volcano.
‘Survivor’ is a single 3 hour performance; local volunteers silently occupy the gallery space, covered in mud from the neck down and holding a photographic portrait of missing persons. After the performance, the exhibition space will contain the detritus from the performance alongside video and photographic documentation of the performance.
Gosford Regional Gallery
April 1 to May 20, 2012
Survivor, 2009, performance at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Courtesy the artist and 4A, Sydney
