Otty Widasari
Indonesia
 

Otty Widasari will research the public memory of Southeast Asia and it’s residents imagination about Singapore.

Otty Widasari

5 October - 27 November 2015

Otty Widasari will research the public memory of Southeast Asia and it’s residents imagination about Singapore. Historically, Singapore is a small island in the region of Southeast Asia and has been known, since the colonial era, as a trade and business center, a transit place, and the largest entertainment venue in Southeast Asia.

Since it’s independence in 1965, Singapore has become an important part of regional economic and also culture development. Widasari’s research will explore the nostalgia of places of Singapore, which will be recorded and transferred to a variety of mediums, such as: video, drawing, painting and photography. This memory is related to the history of Singaporean issues in the geopolitical map of the ASEAN community viewed through cultural, economic and political perspectives such as gender issues and freedom of expression.

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Otty Widasari, 5 October – 27 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Otty Widasari, 5 October – 27 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Otty Widasari, 5 October – 27 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Otty Widasari, 5 October – 27 November 2015, Courtesy the artist.
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Contributors
Otty Widasari
Otty Widasari
Artist-in-Residence
Indonesia

Otty Widasari is an artist and co-founder of Forum Lenteng, a community-development project that uses video, photography, and texts as tools to unveil sociocultural problems. Since 2002, she has produced documentary films for non-profit organisations. Widasari was Artist-in-Residence at NTU CCA Singapore, between October and November 2015, where she continued to work on the video work Fiksi (Fiction) that includes footage of the diorama section at the National Monument, Jakarta, drawing attention to state-driven efforts to establish historical truths in the collective memory of a nation.