Natures Hint #1, #2, #3, Environmental Activist, Court Order, Imprisonment
2024 | screen print using water-based ink on
Natures Hint #1, #2, #3, Environmental Activist, Court Order, Imprisonment
2024 | screen print using water-based ink on
Natures Hint #1, #2, #3, Environmental Activist, Court Order, Imprisonment
2024 | screen print using water-based ink on
Julia Sarisetiati (born in Jakarta, 1981) is a graduate of the Photography Department at Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Trisakti University. Julia is a member of ruangrupa, an artists' initiative based in Jakarta which currently oversees Gudskul Collective Studies and Contemporary Art Ecosystem. She is heavily involved in management, planning, projects and initiatives in various fields, such as art, design, economics and festivals.
Julia's effort to find a model of economic sustainability for spaces initiated by artists, through managing the visual communications design agency RURU Corps, were awarded Diageo-British Council Social Enterprise Challenge for Arts, Creative and Tourism Organization in 2015. In 2020, she also received an honorary award from the Prix Ars Electronica for her proposal entitled Round Trip, a platform for sharing knowledge between current and former migrant workers. In addition, at the end of 2022, she formed a unit consisting of Gertrude Flentge, Frederikke Hansen, and Julia Sarisetiati from Documenta fifteen artistic team collaboration called Gudsis, a space to create sustainable collaborations that focus on the concept of barn.
Julia has also been involved in several curatorial projects, such as Artistic Direction of Documenta fifteen with Ruangrupa (2019-2022), Migration in Asia: A Curators Forum and Joint Exhibitions organized by the Goethe Institut South Korea in Seoul, Mongolia, Berlin and Gwangju (2018-2019), and OK.Pangan: 8th OK.VIDEO Indonesia Media Arts Festival (2017). Meanwhile, she is also involved in several group exhibitions, including Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2024), My Strange Addiction, RUBANAH Underground Hub, Jakarta (2023), and Voices from an Archived Silence, Theater Basel, Switzerland (2020).
Julia Sarisetiati was born in Jakarta, 1981. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Trisakti University, Department of Photography. She settled in Jakarta.
The video work of Julia Sarisetiati (Sarjul) is from the exhibition Dobrak! at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta in 2013 which brought together artists and researchers. The collaboration of Sarjul and Budi Mulia aka Bungen, a social researcher and musician, produced a video about the lottery game. Togel is "illegal toto" which means gambling or illegal betting (toto (Javanese): betting). Various gambling games such as Lotto (Totalizer Lottery), Nalo (National Lotre), Porkas (Pekan Olahraga dan Ketangkasan) and SDSB (Sumbangan Dermawan Sosial Berhadiah) once were legalized as a development policy in Indonesia.
In this video, four lottery players try hard to predict using addition/subtraction formulas and lottery books. Number is a code with mystical dimension and an index to be interpreted according to a dream interpretation book. The images of "rich people" and "crazy people" refer to different numbers, likewise the image "he dies we live" has an index. According to the lottery book, the mystic for number 8 is 0 and the index is 3. Players predict "today's lottery" numbers from the dealer, either with 2 or 4 numbers from 0 to 9. The permutation of this prediction is very large, so the chance of winning the lottery is very small.
Sarjul's video brings uncertainty to this strategy of predicting the lottery number. Uncertainty breeds further uncertainty, and players end up relying on hope and good luck in a game full of anecdotes. This work is inspired by the reality of the world of the precarious proletariat which is plagued by uncertainty regarding work time and life welfare, both materially and psychologically. Sarjul and Bungen captured the resonance of uncertainty and insecurity of the daily existence of the precariat in the gamblers at the lottery table.
The graphic artworks displayed with this video were inspired by images in a dream interpretation book used by lottery gamblers. This print contains codes that are relevant to the current situation and future markers related to the environment, food, economy and law.