Gelanggang Olah Rasa
Gelanggang Olah Rasa – GOR (Bandung)
Gelanggang Olah Rasa (GOR) is an arts collective founded on a simple conviction: that aesthetic experience possesses an autonomy of its own. More than a venue, GOR is a communal hub—one that has consciously cultivated an internal culture of collaboration over rivalry as the ground on which creativity can flourish.
Legally established as a foundation, GOR started in 2020 with practices that converged beyond the conventional boundaries of art; encompassing design, craft, movement and therapy, art handling, exhibitions, workshops, food, music, play, research, performance, discussion, and cultural inquiry. Together they form an ecosystem where making and living are inseparable.
Proposal
A river is an event in continuous unfolding. Its flow carries not only water but sedimented histories: eroded ground, local cultures, colonial imagery, industrial waste. History in this region is not a completed archive but repeating ripples that were never the same. After a three-month residency at Curug Jompong (Citarum River) in 2026, two artists: Agung Eko Sutrisno and Arif Furqan present their art works as two sedimentations. The first arrives from the river: process, objects, images, archives and traces of industry, myth, and politics. The second settles inside the exhibition space, emerged from the audiences.
Arif Furqan was born in 1989. Currently resides in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Visual artist and researcher based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In 2016, studied at Universitas Gadjah Mada and graduated with a Master degree of Art in Literary Science. His practice examines the complex intersections of memory, history, and identity through various mediums. Most of his projects are related to post-colonial studies, Travel Writing, Media Studies, and Photography. In 2021, he was awarded the Prince Claus Seed Award for Unhistoried, an artistic and research project exploring Indonesian vernacular archives from the New Order regime.
Agung Eko Sutrisno was born in Cilacap in 1994. He is a visual and performance artist based and works in Bandung. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Indonesian Institute of Arts and Culture (ISBI) Bandung in 2015. He founded prfrmnc.rar, an initiative dedicated to archiving, laboratory practice, and critical discourse on performance art in Bandung. He is also the founder of KAPITAL SPACE Bandung and a member of the Bandung Performing Arts Forum (BPAF), where he works as a scenographer. As an artist, Agung Eko Sutrisno is deeply interested in history, archival values, and the preservation of collective memory as the primary driving forces behind his artistic practice.
