Part of Collective Project by Kieren Sanderson with Cemeti Art House - 2013
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"Kieren Sanderson initiated a research project
with creative community of Yogyakarta called Creative Encounters and
Adventures. A group of professionals made a series of explorations in
Yogyakarta. Participants were encouraged to tell their story and explore the
stories of Yogyakarta.
In this project, I take picture of people who
live in Yogyakarta. Four years ago, I was going through a quest for a good
reason to stay i this city after graduating from the university. I was looking
intensely inside myself. Back then, the search found its answer through many
different activities and projections that I had at that time.
Now, it has been four years from that moment
and I feel like I need to look back and contemplate on that decision I made in
today's context. Now, I once again, am looking for a good reason to stay here
using a different approach: through the eyes of people around me. By
questioning the reasons of why are they living in this city for more than five
years doesn't only bring me to interesting stories of choices they made in live
but also rediscovering of my dreams and reasons.
The stories that gathered can be a picture of
people who lives in this city and have either direct or indirect impacts for
character development of the City."