THE ROAD TO CREATIVE MEDIA 14th
JMMK #14 : Arts in the Revival and Recovery of Life
The recorded Media Art screening and exhibition, JMMK “The Road to Creative Media” is an annual event that has been held by the Faculty of Recorded Media Arts, Indonesian Art Institute Yogyakarta since 2009. This event, held in October 2022, celebrated 28 years of the faculty of Recorded Media Arts, and was attended by students, lecturers from Photography, Television and Animation undergraduate program at FSMR ISI Yogyakarta, colleagues from academia, industry, professionals and artists. This 2022 event was the fourteenth time annual exhibition of recorded media art “The Road to Creative Media” and had been held at the Fiap Exhibition Center, Pandeng Gallery, Faculty of Recorded Media Arts (FSMR) ISI Yogyakarta on October 25thuntil November 1st, 2022. It was a form of creativity event for recording artists from FSMR and recording artists from other universities. This work encounter is a means of discussion between recording artists and the public as the main connoisseurs of the JMMK exhibition., and this year it specifically presented the theme “Art for Revival and Recovery of Life”
The theme for this year Road to Creative Media (JMMK) #14 event are: Art for Revival and Recovery of Life,which refer to how the art of recorded media take part in reviving and recovering our life. 2022 is a year of recovering from our past conditions that were slumped by the pandemic in the last two years of our life. Society begin to rise and live their normal life. So, what is the role of recording arts in this moments of resurrection and restoration then? We can expect to see the answers in the works that was exhibited both offline and online at JMMK#14.
Resurrection and restoration became the highlight in The 14th Exhibition of JMMK. In the realm of culture, our understanding regarding resurrection refers to a condition in which a person's cultural aspects have recovered after a loss or defeat due to several reasons, such as a pandemic in the health sector, that greatly affected us in the last two years. The ability of humans to bounce back after such conditions requires collective will and effort, and demonstrates how we can work as a community.
The 14th JMMK Exhibition embraces the resurrection in terms of the restoration that happens on our contemporary life which was expected to be translated into works of art by adopting a multi-faceted view from history, material culture, spiritualism, environment, and ideology, in to practical contexts.
The role of recording art is to become a soul recorder on the certain period of times, which can also be a mirror to learn in order for us to live a better life in the future. During the two years of pandemic and still making some works, we can see the pandemic situation being recorded in works such as photography, animation and film. The object of the recorded artwork is a reminder for all of us that there was a time when the world suffered from pandemic, it had changed a lot of human behaviour, in addition to bring us to a healthier lifestyle it also change our communication behaviour. Before the pandemic, communication activities were always carried out offline, during the pandemic almost all communication activities were carried out online to prevent the transmission. This change brings recorded media artists in to a limited working space, and it serves us a unique product that can only be produced during the pandemic era. For example, documentary works which are usually shot on location, due to limited mobility during the pandemic, the production is done without taking pictures on location and replaced with pictures and animations.
There will be 120 recorded works of art exhibited at JMMK#14, 30 video works, 30 animation works and 60 photographic works. Not all of the recorded artworks exhibited take a special topic of pandemic issues, there are also environmental, social, spiritual, and regional cultural issues, even though the pandemic conditions are still being recorded in some of the settings and objects. Several works carry the theme of hope, and giving inspirations to rise from the adversity in life.
From the displayed artworks, we can feel the sense of enthusiasm to relentlessly keep working within the limitations during the pandemic. The spirit of work is the driving force for the revival and restoration of life.