CHOREOGRAPH KNOWLEDGES
Project by 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶, curated by 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗵
𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆-𝟵 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵
Cemeti—Institute for Art and Society
Jl. D.I. Panjaitan 41, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Dear friends,
Please join us on Saturday, 19 January 2019, 19.00 hrs at Cemeti for the opening of 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴, a project by artist Julia Sarisetiati, curated by Grace Samboh, which builds on the artist's long-term research and engagement with Indonesian migrant workers. This project aims to explore how bodies of power, such as state and corporations, “choreograph” bodies across the globe as a migrant workforce, focussing particularly on what comes before: education and training. It looks in-depth at how future migrant workers are taught to embody knowledges relevant to the industry and country they will travel to (like learning lullabies so one can sing a child to sleep or making knots for fish nets, as seen in the image above) while questioning what politics underlie the need to work abroad.
For more information about the artist and the curator, about the exhibition and its related public programme, please visit Cemeti's website 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶.𝗼𝗿𝗴.
Choreographed Knowledges is part of Bodies of Power/Power for Bodies:
𝘊𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪'𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦; 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘰 (𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴) 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴.
(Text preserved and taken from the Cemeti Institut for Arts and Society publication material).
More from their website:
https://cemeti.art/2019/01/19/choreographed-knowledges-english-text/
Pengetahuan-pengetahuan yang dikoreografikan
Koreografi dari atas,
Koreografi dari bawah?
rasa ingin tahu untuk mempelajari ide-ide manajemen sumber daya manusia di Indonesia (seiring perjalanan waktu).
Proyek Choreographed Knowledges dimulai ketika saya meneliti sekolah dan lembaga yang mempersiapkan pekerja migran Indonesia untuk berbagai peluang kerja di luar negeri. Saat itu, keterbatasan dana menyebabkan penelitian lapangan hanya dapat dilakukan di sekolah-sekolah yang mempersiapkan pekerja migran di sektor perikanan. Sebaliknya, penelitian terkait sekolah yang mempersiapkan pekerja untuk sektor lain dilakukan di belakang meja; melalui studi pustaka lintas media. Hasilnya, berbagai arsip yang ditemukan selama proses meneliti (teks, video, foto) kemudian diintegrasikan dalam presentasi Choreograph Knowledges di Institut Seni dan Masyarakat Cemeti (Yogyakarta) pada tahun 2019. Terlihat dari dokumentasinya, di Cemeti: penyajian arsip-arsip tersebut disertai dengan satu usaha untuk memahami perjalanan sejarah pendidikan Indonesia yang diartikulasi dalam bentuk linimasa terbuka. Dalam penyusunannya: saya bekerja bersama dengan Ary “Jimged” Sendy, dan kemudian mengundang pula kerabat terdekat untuk berkontribusi dalam memikirkan momen-momen kunci yang perlu disertakan.
Sejarah pendidikan, meskipun tampak sebagai narasi tunggal, sejatinya menjadi jalinan yang terkait erat dengan linimasa sejarah lainnya. Penghubung ini mencakup peristiwa-peristiwa besar di ranah sosial, politik, dan ekonomi, baik dalam skala lokal maupun global. Sebagai contoh, melibatkan sejarah migrasi tenaga kerja dari nusantara yang membentang melalui berbagai rezim pemerintahan. Keingintahuan terhadap tingginya jumlah buruh migran Indonesia dengan tingkat pendidikan dan keterampilan rendah memunculkan upaya pemahaman yang lebih komprehensif terhadap berbagai konteks di masa lalu yang mungkin menjadi akar permasalahan tersebut. Dalam proses merunut dan memahami sejarah pendidikan secara lintas disiplin tersebut, jelas bahwa tema-tema sejarah lainnya juga memegang peranan penting. Misalnya sejarah politik, diplomasi, militer, nasional, regional, lokal, kota, sosial, ekonomi, lembaga, demografi, intelektual, kebudayaan, etnis, keluarga, agraria, petani, wanita, kulit hitam, dan banyak lagi, semuanya saling berdampingan. Pentingnya pendekatan lintas disiplin dalam sejarah tidak hanya menciptakan keseluruhan gambaran, tetapi juga menggambarkan kompleksitas interaksi antara berbagai aspek kehidupan manusia. Inilah yang membuat pendekatan lintas disiplin sejarah menjadi kunci untuk memahami relasi kompleks antara sejarah pendidikan dan berbagai tema sejarah lainnya. Dengan pendekatan ini, kita dapat mengungkap relasi yang kompleks antara sejarah pendidikan dan beragam tema sejarah, membuka pemahaman yang lebih mendalam tentang evolusi pendidikan dan dampaknya dalam konteks luas kehidupan manusia.
Setelah terhenti pada tahun 2019, saya melanjutkan penyusunan linimasa pada tahun 2024. Dalam kolaborasi dengan kawan-kawan lain yang memiliki ketertarikan penelusuran waktu yang tentunya beragam.
Choreograph Knowledges: A publication to refer to,
and to get a better idea about what's what:
https://sambohgrace.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/exh-guide-sari-cemeti-2019.pdf
Related Process:
https://juliasarisetiati.wixsite.com/projects/indo-k-work
https://juliasarisetiati.wixsite.com/projects/indokwork-2016
https://www.temporal-communities.de/pdf/events/2019/embodied-histories-poster.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWpga4g5Bqw&feature=emb_logo
https://juliasarisetiati.wixsite.com/projects/copy-of-defining-excellence-1
Own Related-texts:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15DWBmHyJwGiJdzcrkzg7s490NiNF6Opgi3iAkZuafEI/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13IDEthLQXtGvZ_VWirCutt7o_zaNAgNSg2NZFZBfJ9I/edit
Choreographed knowledge
Choreographed from above,
Choreographed from below?
curiosity to learn about the top-down ideas of human resource management in Indonesia (over time).
The Choreographed Knowledges project began when I was researching schools and institutions that prepare Indonesian migrant workers for various employment opportunities abroad. At the time, limited funding meant that field research could only be conducted in schools preparing migrant workers in the fisheries sector. In contrast, research related to schools that prepare workers for other sectors was conducted behind the desk; through cross-media literature studies. As a result, various archives found during the research process (texts, videos, photos) were then integrated in the presentation of Choreograph Knowledges at the Cemeti Institute of Art and Society (Yogyakarta) in 2019. As seen from the documentation, at Cemeti: the presentation of the archives was accompanied by an attempt to understand the history of Indonesian education articulated in the form of an open timeline. In compiling it: I worked together with Ary "Jimged" Sendy, and later invited close relatives to contribute to thinking about the key moments that needed to be included.
The history of education, while appearing to be a single narrative, is in fact inextricably linked to other historical timelines. These links include major social, political and economic events on both a local and global scale. For example, it involves the history of labor migration from the archipelago that stretches through various government regimes. Curiosity about the high number of Indonesian migrant workers with low levels of education and skills has led to a more comprehensive understanding of the past contexts that may be at the root of the problem. In the process of tracing and understanding the interdisciplinary history of education, it is clear that other historical themes also play an important role. For example, political history, diplomacy, military, national, regional, local, city, social, economic, institutional, demographic, intellectual, cultural, ethnic, family, agrarian, peasant, women, black, and many more, all co-exist. The importance of an interdisciplinary approach in history is that it not only creates an overall picture, but also illustrates the complexity of interactions between different aspects of human life. This is what makes the interdisciplinary approach to history key to understanding the complex relationship between the history of education and various other historical themes.
After a hiatus in 2019, we resumed compiling the timeline in 2024: in collaboration with other friends with diverse time-tracking interests.
Note:
The first video below shows some basic vocabulary that the instructor hopes the students will remember before departing to the destination countries. While the next video after, shows a rope skill class in which the instructor has created a competition for students to simulate teamwork. Sorting out a situation they will likely encounter once they are on the ship.