Made Bayak Events
Exhibition: New Gods/Old Gods
March 25-April 28
ATHICA, 675 Pulaski Street, Suite 1200
http://athica.org/updates/new-gods-old-gods/
Opening Reception
Monday, March 25 from 5 – 7 PM
ATHICA
Roundtable: Representations of Violence, Radical Storytelling, Art-based Activism, and Imaginative History-making
Wednesday, March 27 at 3 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 350
This panel will include Made Bayak Muliana, Dr. Amy Ross (Geography), Dr. Betina Kaplin (Romance Languages),Dr. Peter Brosius (Anthropology), and Athens-based artist Broderick Flanigan. We seek to expand discussions on media-based representations of violent events that are unseen, destroyed, or silenced. Discussion on the process of curation and culmination of difficult or unsayable histories, as well as the consequences of their insertion into public spaces, will be conducted through a question and answer forum facilitated by Lamar Dodd graduate student Alden DiCamillo.
Made Bayak musical performance, featuring the artist, Killick, and other local musicians
Wednesday, March 27 at 7 PM
ATHICA
Made Bayak artist talk and performance art
“Radical Resilience within Visual Art-making (Art as Activism)”
Sunday, March 31 at 4 PM
ATHICA
Musical performance by Gamelan Chandra Natha Balinese gamelan ensemble
Tuesday, April 2 at 7 PM
ATHICA
Traditional Balinese Painting Workshop
Wednesday, April 3 at 2 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Screening: “The Look of Silence”
Wednesday, April 3 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151
Youth Workshop, Art with Recycled Materials/Plasticology
Thursday, April 4 at 5:30 PM
Lyndon House Arts Center
Register: https://www.accgov.com/8670/Art-with-Recycled-Materials
Lake Herrick Eco-Art Festival
Saturday, April 6 Noon- 5 PM
Lake M. Allyn Herrick
Curators’ Talk by Peter Brosius, Sarah Hitchner, and Alden DiCamillo
“Old Gods//New Gods: Ethnographic Crossings: Culture and Violence”
Monday, April 8 at 5:30 PM
ATHICA
Made Bayak was born in 1980 in Tampaksiring, Gianyar Regency, Bali, Indonesia. He completed his studies at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Denpasar in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia in 2006. His work addresses the human devastation of the Indonesian genocide of 1965-66 and the environmental devastation of the Balinese island’s once-pristine environment caused by tourism-driven development and the lack of local awareness of best ecological practices. His methods include activism and social organization, teaching workshops, painting, drawing, sculptural objects, installations, performance art, and music performed with his heavy metal rock band Geeksmile.
Plasticology is an ongoing project in which he uses waste plastic to make art objects, paintings, and performances, as well as teaching Plasticology workshops to children and communities. In 2014, he was buried up to his neck by an excavator/backhoe during his performance at the Padang Galak Beach Tolak Reklamasi Art Event held to protest the Balinese government’s plan to develop the Benoa Bay to the benefit of outside commercial interests (Reklamasi Benoa). The populist movement ForBali (Tolak Reklamasi) calls for Bali to reject (tolak) this “reclamation” of the Benoa Bay. Nominated as a finalist in Singapore’s prestigious 2013 Sovereign Art Prize, Made Bayak continues to conduct his activist practice and to exhibit his works in Bali and, most recently, in Germany and Poland.
For more information about Made Bayak visit: http://madebayak.com
Sponsors: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) with the support of The James E. and Betty J. Huffer Foundation and Creature Comforts Brewery, the Willson Center for Arts and Humanities, the UGA Department of Anthropology, the UGA Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR), Ideas for Creative Exploration, the UGA Office of Sustainability, Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Lyndon House Arts Center, and the ACC Solid Waste Department.
