Cempaka Culture and Tourism: The Art of Getting ‘Wasted’ in Yogya

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Sunday, January 3, 2010

The Art of Getting ‘Wasted’ in Yogya

Jakarta Globe, Marcel Thee

Tomoko Mukaiyama’s new exhibition involves a maze of white silk dresses. (Photos courtesy of Cemeti Art House)

Eccentric Japanese multimedia artist and pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama is known for her avant-garde pieces and her use of audience participation.

Her latest exhibition, “wasted,” which is currently being held at Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta, requires even more intimate assistance from the audience than usual.

The exhibition is built around an aesthetically beautiful display of countless white silk dresses that cover the art space’s walls and create a kind of labyrinth.

Mukaiyama says that “the adventurous routing through the soft silk walls embraces you and overwhelms you with an incredible aesthetic power.”

But there’s more to it than that. Female participants are invited to take a silk dress, provided by Mukaiyama for free, on the condition that they wear the dresses during their menstrual cycle and send the results back to the artist for her to use as part of her next multimedia exhibition.

The involvement of her audience or external sources has become something of a calling card for Mukaiyama. She says that she needs to capture and examine the energy of the audience or an external factor before turning it into a new creation or thought.

Her works are also often related to her classical music background, and her current exhibition involves a musical performance along with the dresses.

In one of her most well-known collaborative projects, titled “For You,” Mukaiyama performed a piano recital for an audience, one person at a time. “For You” took her to the Netherlands and Canada in 2003, where she performed 96 of these recitals in eight days.

Mukaiyama’s current exhibition, which is constantly evolving, has taken her to Japan, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Czech Republic and Belgium, as part of a planned five-year tour.

Aditya Permana, who designed the display of white silk dresses for the exhibition in Yogyakarta, said: “When I was first approached about doing the installation, I thought it was going to be just like the art pieces which we’ve done numerous times before. But when it was explained to us that the dresses were to form a labyrinth and a web that covered almost all of the gallery, we knew it wasn’t going to be an easy task.

“To be involved in ‘wasted’ is an amazing experience. This project has certainly broadened our knowledge about visual art, music and audience perception. Tomoko has a wonderful ability to combine all those factors.”

The women who borrow the dresses are also encouraged to create artistic statements to describe their feelings about menstruation during their menstrual cycles, and then send these statements to the artist along with the dresses. These statements can take whatever form the women choose — recordings, poetry, texts, photos, video.

Not to exclude the male members of the audience, Mukaiyama invites men to send in any art they choose to create relating to the female menstrual cycle.

According to the event’s press release, ‘wasted’ is an internationally based art project that “challenges the transience of the feminine virtue to give birth to ideas, creations and, not the least, to children.”

Curious? “Everybody is welcome to find out by attending the concert and exhibition,” Mukaiyama says.

To participate in the exhibition, sign up through the Web site www.wasted.nl or at the venue.