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Title Gang Ways: An Artist Run Exchange / Director: Leimbach, Carli
Published Australia : ABC, 2011
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Summary *Coarse Language*A fascinating look at the artist-run Gang Festival that took place in Chippendale, Sydney. A group of young Indonesian artists came to Sydney to exhibit their work and collaborate in a cultural exchange between Indonesia and Australia. They lived and worked with their Australian artist contemporaries for four weeks, exchanging ideas and working together. The exchange culminates with a number of exhibitions and the festival.'Gang' in Indonesian means 'alleyway'. In Australia, faced with huge rent hikes, redevelopments and council restrictions, groups of young artists are deciding to help themselves - setting up their own galleries and studios in shared spaces.Making bold new work about the situation they find around them and dealing with scarce resources, these artists are forming new communities in order to survive. They help each other create interesting new projects - art which timid mainstream galleries and venues don't support.Meanwhile, a very similar movement has been taking shape in the Gangs of major cities in Indonesia. There too, artists are getting together to help each other as they face their own problems and solutions. Some are remarkably similar to those confronting their Australian counterparts, like finding abandoned spaces to use in the Gangs, working with communities, making ends meet for rent and materials. But some have very different problems like surviving the attacks of armed political organisations, and the police.This is the story of those artist communities and the Gang Festival they put together between the two communities, as artists from each country travel to the other to find out how they do what they do.The documentary explores these 'spaces' as a new force, not only in art but in lifestyle as well. What role do artist run spaces have and play in society?PRODUCTION DETAILS: Director: Carli Leimbach; Producers: Bill Leimbach, Carli Leimbach; Editor: Rowena Crowe; and Executive Producers: Bill Leimbach, Carli Leimbach and Fieke Geerts
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2011-02-27 at 23:25:00
Notes Classification: M
Subject Art -- Exhibitions.
Art, Indonesian -- Themes, motives.
Installations (Art) -- Technique.
Politics in art.
Pop art.
Video art -- Technique.
Indonesia.
New South Wales -- Sydney.
Form Streaming video
Author Afisina, Reza, contributor
Karr, Ron, contributor
Conroy, Bec, contributor
Crosby, Ali, contributor
Darmawan, Ade, contributor
Darmawan, Rani, contributor
Kurniasih, Fitri, contributor
Leimbach, Carli, director
Pandjalu, Arya, contributor
Prabawa, Aris, contributor
Budi Santoso, contributor
Sik, Bob, contributor
Strong, Peter, contributor
Wardani, Farah, contributor