PROJECT
'PRIBUMI'
Spoken Word Performance & Installation
Director: Latisha Horstink / Camera: Jan Köhler / Editing: Łukasz Gula
Weak knees
Heavy body
I can’t feel my legs
Silence
Something born into me
Dutch stay silent about their colonies
Indonesians are loud,
But their hearts silent
Can’t confront, question, stand up
Without being brought to our knees
Aching voiced through groans, complaints
Protest
We’ve forgotten the most important thing
The one thing we must do
To fight we must
Stand
Friday
10am
They stood,
resisted, revolutionized
We once stood up for our rights
once stood to voice our opinions
Our voice shattering shackles
We scream
Freedom
But we still remained shackled
Shackled to rules we’ve formulated ourselves
But we are similar
We surrendered
We discriminate
We silence
Capture the voices
And use it to tie the noose
We’ve convinced ourselves that we’re weak
Does the march of our own feet remind us of their boots?
Afraid if we stand the print we leave will not be our own?
Expectations to be like the west
Our lack of identity
Wanna be the west
Can’t we realise that we can be Southeast
FLOODS
Spoken Word Performance & Installation
Walking on the tight line of White and Asian, I get to experience all the privileges of having less melanin and all the oppression from being Southeast Asian. Comfort is foreign to me, I’m ashamed of my dirty laundry, and it’s about time I take a long look into the Mirror.
GARDEN OF EDEN : UPDATED
Installation, Clay
by Four Brown Nipples, a collaboration of Latisha Horstink and Proud Devakula
‘Gender’ as the virtual, to trap something real, fluid, into a binary system, a social construct. With this Utopian ideal we hope to seek a change in the current system. Realise that it's not male or female, that things in between, things that don’t conform, abstract genders can be a part of you too. Unsatisfied with how your sexual organs represent you? Feel free to pick one, or more, or none.
