Cempaka Culture and Tourism: A Spy in the House Of White Lies

"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. …”

Friday, January 22, 2010

A Spy in the House Of White Lies

Jakarta Globe, Marcel Thee, January 22, 2010

Inspired by Anais Nin, Syagini Ratna Wulan’s exhibition examines ideas of deception and intimacy. (Photo courtesy of Vivi Yip)

Artist Syagini Ratna Wulan wants to guide people through the deception and intrigue common to everyday life with her new exhibition, “Love Affair Pt. 1: The Dining Room/White Lies.”

The exhibition is the first in a three-part project, and is currently on show at the Vivi Yip Art Room in South Jakarta.

Syagini says the exhibition aims to “explore the secrecy of double love-lives, unfaithfulness, seduction and the expurgation of fantasies.” She adds that it “stems from something very simple and basic, concerning the emotional connection between human beings.”

Featuring a range of works and objects, including paintings, drawings, furniture, clothing, tableware, embroidery and domestic objects, the exhibition creates what curator Agung Hujatnikajennong describes as an “enigmatic, sensual and ambient narrative.”

The centerpiece of the show is a dining room draped completely in white, including the cutlery on the dining table. Syagini says the inspiration for her installations was a novel by French author Anais Nin, “A Spy in the House of Love” (1954). Syagini was intrigued by the elements of sexual intrigue and taboos as well as the issues of intimacy.

“The dining room does not work merely as a room where food is served and eaten, but also a room where a family’s intimacy and social interaction takes place,” Agung says. “An argument that happens in the dining room holds the same significance as an argument that takes place in an office, the bedroom and even a government chamber. We can just imagine [Syagini’s] dining room as a place where anything is possible.

“It works as an open text which aims to break social mores, which are driven by humans’ natural instincts.”

Syagini graduated from the Bandung Institute of Technology in 2001 and continued her studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Previous works include “The Ten Commandments” (2001), a bar of soap on which she printed the Ten Commandments. In another exhibition, “Delirium” (2002), Syagini displayed household items inside chemical bottles as a comment on “the hallucinations of the public as consumers.”

In her latest exhibition Syagini hopes to convey the more oblique, often unseen, side of human behavior.

“Lies, affairs and betrayal are like bones,” she said. “They cannot be seen because they are wrapped under the skin. But just like bones, the secrets we keep from others can truly show who we really are.”

Love Affair Pt. 1: The Dining Room/White Lies
Until Jan. 26, free entry
Vivi Yip Art Room
Lot 2-3 The Promenade
Jl. Warung Buncit Raya 98
South Jakarta

For opening hours, please contact:
081 511 67 1207
021 7900 480

www.vivivyipartroom.com