Convocation

Project Manager
Curatorial and Text
Artistic Director

ISA Art and Design is proud to present Convocation, a group exhibition of selected artists as part of our exhibition lineup for the fifth edition of Art Moments Jakarta. Featuring artworks from Ardi Gunawan, A. Sebastianus, Condro Prioyaji, Galih Adika, Hadassah Emmrich, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Luh Gede, Sinta Tantra, Vienasty, Yogie Ginanjar, Yosefa Aulia, and Yuki Nakayama that will be exhibited at Sheraton Grand Jakarta Hotel.

Today, after more than a century of electrical technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace1. "our new technology" is to wide ranged. There’s also new technology in industry which are an extension of our body. We now see all technology including language, as a means of processing experience, a means of storing and speeding up information. Technology is the new form of surrealism. Many of today's technologies enable us to go beyond our physical boundaries and connect to a new limitless universe, thus dreaming is no longer the only way to enter the surreal world.

The title of the exhibition, “Convocation”, has the literal meaning of an assembly of people called together to a meeting. Convocation represents the collection of artists from different cultures and stories in one exhibition. Their diverse backgrounds and artistic practices offer a broad range of perspectives and opinions that come together to create a dynamic that can be the basis for complementary discussions that can be shared in society. Through Convocation, the artists explore the fluid concept that correlates with contemporary surrealism and everyday life from the various narratives based on their backgrounds and understandings.