‘After Voices’ is a major new commission from Indonesian multi-disciplinary artist Jompet Kuswidananto for SCAF Project 32. Curated by Alia Swastika, the installation takes the shape of a carnivalesque procession of life-size ‘ghost figures’ constructed from helmets, uniforms, mechanical hands, musical instruments and motorcycle headlights that parade through the gallery.
Jompet’s personal experience of social hysteria and trauma – following the 1998 fall of Suharto’s New Order – frames the show. Costume, kinetic movement, film and a layered soundscape will transform the chaos and violence of these events into a complex sensory experience through loudspeakers, flags, megaphones, television monitors, drums and empty shoes.
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF)
Until 3 September, 2016
Sydney
After Voices, 2016, studio documentation
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
Courtesy the artist and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney
