Biennale jogja 2007

Well, for such a common people in Jogjakarta especially, art as well an extraordinary side. Even such huge agenda, annually held, 'biennale Jogja 2008' still jogja public commonly never know what is 'jogja biennale festival'. And the question running to such a 'silly' next premisjudgement : Biennale is kind of ISI (Jogjakarta -Art Institute Indonesian) student agenda.

Anyway, now I just like in between : half know bout Jogjakarta Biennale festival, and half have no idea exactly bout what it's this stupid 'instalation'.
Stupid 'instalation', because I din't have any idea bout what and artist gain bout the 'instalallation' project rather than waste amount of money?

(war : an isntallation art by heri dono)

Now I'm act like a tourist here. A strange thing called 'art'?
Okay ISI building which I stand now was remain lots of many art activity. After those huge institution had move to the new place, (The new place taken in the South remote area of Yogyakarta called Bantul), then this place became spuky, threaten by scrub and grass, moss and surely the building itself become as hommy as many homeless people. 

Now, when the biennale 08 taken place in this place it looks like remains us about what beneath of the building.
(art performance by one of the biennale artist)

Dear world, surely it just a small part of site. But let's we talk about art in term of common people point of view. When a performence happen in that place, one of the performence that it said as part of biennalejogja 08 artist, I feels about those artist and their work try to wake 'what remain on that building up. Not a history, but almost many story about creative proces or about their senior or ancestor?
For that performence in the picture above an example. That's artist was look's like murmuring, trance and talk to something