Bits & Pieces: D-Fuse + Re: Imagining The City 2008 (Part 1)

2008 was Big, nonetheless the fact we were just not that into the world of sophisticated visual culture (yet), we weren’t believing in anything ‘strange’, literature was trivial, VJ-ing was a mere gadget –for a kid who didn’t really care about how it worked and what’s that then–, and that’s that. All in all, anything’s still good enough; Spontaneous, phenomenological, actively intuitive, worthwhile. Were we meant to be there? Because we weren’t drunk enough to welcome a week of massive counter-spectacles spectacular showcase, conducted by the ever famous London-based collective audiovisual artist, D-Fuse.

For us, however that was exactly the moment when academic burden tipped to simply, a life enthusiasm. Every motive came fascinating, to the fact which they [D-Fuse] aim their cross-disciplinary excitement to highlight some of the social and environmental issues that arise in the personal and emotive aspects of life in the city, through the medium of arts.

Urbanism and its dynamic issues are the energy that was synchronizing; City’s like a mix of weeds, slaws and salads matched in the same bowl, put straight on an open table next to the young and the not so young vegetarian bimbos craving for a full-on vegetarian fast-breaking.

It was happening in 5 days, with Bandung as the fetished mammal ready for a surge in the collaborative art project entitled “Re-Imagining City: Bandung”. The project included quite a random criss-cross between several local photographers, someone who’s not really a photographer, video artist, and musicians, as well as the D-Fuse crew themselves, recognized as a sound director, VJ, Researcher, and a Theorist. Enthused by the ideas of Psychogeography, the team filmed, recorded, discussed, thus creating a new whole audiovisual stageplay played live in Gasibu. The product contents with the ‘ambiguous’ scenes of the city-scape, experimenting with straightforward investigation of the specific geographical environment that consciously or not, shapes the emotions and behavior of the people in the city (i.e The Ambience of how dull Pasupati Slumps, The Motorbike gang night out, The Flea market crowd,etc.)

Everything was awesome (and pretty goddam long to be explained words for words hahaa) but it’s been nearly 3 years since the week, so we think it’s gonna be worth a romantic yet provoking feeling, to re-post the photos back out of the hard drive. In the meantime, we’ll be back with its exclusive interview part soon. cheers 29 fps