This Talkseries invites Sudjud Dartanto, as one of the curators of  Arafura Craft Exchange at Australia. He shared stories on early step of the curatorial processes, which was the mapping of studios where craft artists work. To him, the mapping which involved visits are unique, since basically, every craft artists use their skills to explore products with craft behaviors.

In the past 5 years, indie clothing and design apparel industries in Yogyakarta has continued to grow and evolve. One of the players in this industry is Roof with their Roof Store. Their later affiliations are Youth Dew and Double Division.
For this Pancaroba, we invited Mario from Youth Dew to present their bag products with its vintage style. We consider this product special for the materials they use (used cloth and vintage accessories) and their consistent design.
Mario from Youth Dew gave a short presentation on how they choose materials and apply designs which differ their product from similar products. Including their ways in maintaining their continously evolving creative industry.

Alternative spaces in Java big cities were a phenomenon. Bandung only had listed several spaces for artwork creation laboratory with their efforts of releasing themselves from trends of running an exhibition space. We may often found this in spaces run by a group of artists (Artists’ Initiative Spaces). Eventually, in between the dynamics of artists’ initiative spaces ups and downs, many of the (young) artists form groups then arrange a space for their exploration site. On of them is ButonKultur. What may Buton possibly projected for their early works, including the dynamics of Bandung visual art nowadays?

The blog that is discussed here belongs to Hendra ‘HeHe’ Harsono with the address http://senjaketawa.blogspot.com. Not only as an online diary, had he also put his works in his site. For HeHe, displaying his works in blogs is very useful since everyone viewing them can put their comment in the “shoutbox” or even contact him for an online purchase.
Alia Swastika is a blogger who publishes her essays and prose in her personal blog. She responded to blog phenomenon within scenes of young artists, where blogs are considered to be a somewhat online gallery. Alia, who is also a writer for visual art and curator for Cemeti Art House, revealed several methods in optimizing blogs as an online gallery.

Campaigning through visual medium is a common thing in our daily lives, especially for campaigns that involve mass movements and of a political sense. For instance, we would easily found pamphlets, posters and billboards that suggest us to elect a candidate from a certain politic party. This is also how Bunderan Party of UGM did their campaign for the Students’ Senate President. On the campaign period, the area of UGM was covered with various kinds of visual medium that suggest students to elect each party’s candidate.

POOP! also did similar movements, where they campaign for environmental issues through T-Shirt sales with jargons such as ‘Save Your Garden’, runs a blog discussing environmental issues and saved some of the sales income for another forms of campaign.

Terra, a young designer and lecturer in Faculty of Fine Art and Design, ISI Yogyakarta responded to both groups by showing the strength of common campaigning methods and several innovations for campaigning an issue.