They come, they see, and they scare! Khuruksetra shows one of its best ever performance in front of 500 unprepared Melbourne crowd with its "Syair Jayabaya" sound and visual art performance.
"I thought they were here to scare people away," Abelian Yodha, Junior Consulate of Indonesian Consulate General Melbourne, said.
After its 20 minutes performance that comes with pitch black environment, dark ambient, and a scream of a Javanese soul, Khuruksetra gets mixed response from the audience. One believes that Khuruksetra is performing a Satanic ritual and outraged by its performance.
"This is the kind of response that we're expected from the audience, we are not here to make friends, we are here to make a statement about our music and our performance," Mikael Mirdad said.
Khuruksetra is an experimental art project from Sydney, and asked about its history, Danif Pradana said, "It's all started when I explored the idea of 'Surrealist Automatic Feedback'."
With Melbourne as a stepping stone, Khuruksetra has a long road ahead them. "This is just the beginning, we are playing with different concept on different performances, and our next goal would be playing in Bali as part of our cultural expedition," Mr. Pradana said.
With Melbourne in its past, Khuruksetra is preparing for a bigger stage in its journey, and so should the audience. Warning! The Omen of Khuruksetra is haunting the world.
More to come on Khuruksetra..
Khuruksetra
Grand Hyatt Ballroom
Sunday, 5 October 2008.
It was easy to count how many days I spent in Japan, it was 15 days. But, to count how many times I had to struggle with this kind of environment, bright lights and people of Tokyo, I've lost my count since day 2. This is Tokyo as I see it.
This is the photo essay I submitted for the ACIJ Photojournalism Course.
20 million people in 1 nation, try 14 million in 1 city. Australia is too empty or Jakarta is too crowded?
An ordinary Moslem in an extra ordinary Western World, a portrait on the relationship between the Indonesian Moslem and Australians after the Bali Bombing in 2002 and the execution of the Bali Bomber in November 2008.
I'm currently taking a photojournalism short course from Australia Centre of Independent Journalists and this is the first assignment, to take a photo of my personal space.
Coming soon! A documentary on the sound and visual journey of Khuruksetra. How a four different individuals can become one as Khuruksetra.
A collection of photographs from Khuruksetra's performance in Grand Hyatt, Melbourne.
Since these Polaroid papers will no longer go into production next year, we should all use it only on a beautiful occasion. And these two papers photographed two special occasion, the last shot of the Charlotte Movie production and the set itself. And until this minute, I still can't believe why Polaroid stops the production of its best product.
