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

2008 was Big, nonetheless the fact that we were just not that into this subtle world of visual culture yet, we weren’t believing in anything too strange, literature was trivial, VJ-ing was a mere gadget –for a kid who didn’t really care about how it works 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 sober enough to welcome a week of massive counter-spectacles spectacular showcase, conducted by the London-based media artist collective, D-Fuse.

For us, however that was exactly the moment when our 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 emotive aspects of the city, again 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 a fresh flesh ready for a surge in the collaborative art project entitled “Re-Imagining City: Bandung”. The project included quite a criss-cross practice between the work of several local photographers, someone who’s not really a photographer, video artist, musicians, as well as the D-Fuse crew themselves, recognized as a sound artist, a VJ, and a researcher. Enthused by the ideas of Psychogeography, the team filmed, recorded, discussed, and creating a new whole audiovisual stage play played live in Gasibu. The project outcom contents with the ‘ambiguous’ scenes of the city-scapes, experimenting with straightforward investigation of the specific geographical environment that consciously or not shaped the emotion and behavior of the city dwellers.

Everything was too great and too long for a a web log (sure it is) and it’s been about 3 years since that week now, so we think it’s gonna be sort of a romantic, to re-post the photos back out of the hard drive, bless.