art-firman djamil

Asia-Europe project wins ‘Best Dance Film’

2012-01-25T23:33:00.000-08:00

Asia-Europe project wins ‘Best Dance Film’

"Fuel Flue" - Drenthe Internationale Kunst-en natuurwandeling OverLeven - Nederlands 2009

2009-09-03T10:38:00.000-07:00

"Fuel Flue" artwork installation - firman djamil

Zero Chimney - Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival - Taiwan 2008

2009-09-02T09:52:00.000-07:00

2008 Guandu Inernational Outdoor Sculpture Festival – Taiwan

From the Critic, John K Grande, about the Work of Firman Djamil

Firman Djamil’s Zero Chimney is a powerful sculptural integration at Guandu. Rising up vertically from the ground, this chimney recall the factory smokestacks from the early days of industrialization, but Firman’s is a bio-sensitive chimney that includes corn seeds at its base, a food source that will become a growing part of the art. As part of his artistic process Firman performed a performance ritual that involved public participation an planting of the corn seeds at the opening of the 3rd annual Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival.

Zero Chimney likewise addresses the issue of alternative energy sources, notably the corn-based fuel known as Ethanol. Produced from maize or corn using an agrifuel process, the production of Ethanol is being contested for various reasons, notably that food sources for the world’s poor and disenfranchised are being converted into fuel, but also because water used to cultivate maize/corn for ethanol on huge farms, is not being directed towards our sustainable projects and for basic resource use. The production of one gallon or 3.7 liters of ethanol requires 6.345 liters of fresh water during the maize/corn growth and fermentation process, and there is also irrigation waste, and corresponding environmental damage.

A beautifully aesthetic bamboo construction at Guandu Nature Park, Zero Chimney is nature stack, one that no longer yields gas or carbon emissions in the form of Co2, but fresh air instead. An art with heard that will yield corn, to then be eaten by humans and songbirds, in indeed interactive in a most wholesome, universal and environmental way.

John K Grande, 2008

JOHN K GRANDE

- The author of Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose Books, 1994 & 2004)
- Intertwining: Landscape Technology, Issue, Artists (Black Rose Books 1998)
- John Grande’s Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists
was published by State University of New York Press in 2004 ( www.sunypress.edu )
and in Spanish edition by the Fundacion Manrique in 2005
- John Grande’s Dialogues in Diversity Art from Marginal to Mainstream was
published by Pari Publishing (Italy) in North America in 2007 (
www.paripublishing.com )
- Art Allsorts: Writing on Art & Artists will be available in June 2008 at
www.lulu.com

Tangan Sirih' 2008

2009-09-01T23:03:00.000-07:00

instalasi " Tangan Sirih" 2008
di O Huose Gallery Jakarta

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2009-08-30T21:50:00.000-07:00

Surat Cinta di Bulan ke Dua belas' 2008

2009-08-30T21:29:00.000-07:00

golden loves' 2008

Sejarah Dan Lantai Yang Datang Keatas' 2008

2009-08-30T20:46:00.000-07:00

i don't need your fountain Sir' 2008

2009-08-30T20:44:00.000-07:00

coocking on the head' 2008

2009-08-30T20:32:00.000-07:00

my body drift away and a story about small tiny fish' 2008

2009-08-30T20:29:00.000-07:00

muddy shadow

Villager Garden - 2007

2007-12-04T03:24:00.000-08:00

villager garden

Camba 2007

2007-12-04T03:10:00.001-08:00

camba bridge

Pa'urungan Toraja-Mamasa, 2000

2007-12-01T04:46:00.000-08:00

Meta Architecture of Coconut , Sharing Time - BALI, 2000

2007-12-01T04:38:00.001-08:00

In to On - Toraja International Art Festival - 2000

2007-12-01T04:35:00.001-08:00

Root Ritual - Yokohama I O A E, 2000

2007-12-01T04:29:00.000-08:00

Breath Mother Earth on Phallus - Korea 2003

2007-12-01T04:25:00.001-08:00

Bamboo Tunnel - Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Korea 2006

2007-12-01T04:12:00.001-08:00

Stone Grow - MUĞLA II. ULUSLARARASI KARYA TAŞ HEYKEL ATÖLYESİ VE SERGİSİ, TURKEY 2006

2007-11-29T06:00:00.001-08:00

Shadow of Hands, Pray for Peace - Australia 2005

2007-11-29T05:34:00.001-08:00

Shadow of Hands - Pray for Peace

Carly Rawson

During the Inspirasi Festival Byron audiences were able to watch and engage in the performance art of Firman Djamil. A special guest to the Shire, Firman travelled from Makassar in South Sulawesi for the event. With strong ties to his Bugis background Firman's art marries traditional and organic forms with more contemporary and at times, political concerns. For the festival he performed Shadow of Hands Pray for Peace at the Arts Factory. The rhythmic beating of drums in the background, the rituals of Firman's ancestors were recalled as he emerged from an apex of white fabric balancing a bowl of fire on his head. Moving into the centre of the space, he lay facing the material, draped into the water to channel energy into the installation before tipping the fire over himself. Dousing the fire by wringing water from the cloth, he returned to the apex and knelt before a woven palm frond, a symbol connecting heaven to earth. Placing a combination of lime, betel nut, sirih leaves and a whole egg in his mouth he slowly salutes the symbol before breaking the egg into his mouth, making a paste and blowing it onto the leaf, so that when removed, the outline remains.

At this point volunteers were called from the audience to come forward - Firman repeated this process spitting the natural paint from his mouth onto the volunteers hands placed on clay eggs, and then on small canvas pieces laid on blocks of wood on the ground, leaving an imprint of a hand on each canvas. Some canvasses left blank, Firman intends to take back to Indonesia where he will collect the hand prints of Indonesian people before installing the works in an exhibition in Jakarta, as a monument to peace and interconnectivity.

Byron Bay 2005

Kota diatas Becak

2007-11-29T05:21:00.001-08:00

Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Korea 2004

2007-11-06T11:20:00.000-08:00

The Insider Voice Come Up

Breathing in Sanseung - Sanseung Park Korea 2003

2007-11-06T11:17:00.001-08:00

breathing in sanseung
performance art in sanseung park-south korea
2003

Installation Theatre - 1996

2007-11-06T11:11:00.001-08:00

mencari benua i la galigo yang hilang
installation and performance art
1996

Performance

2007-11-06T11:00:00.000-08:00

The Death After Election - Makassar 2007

Drawing

2007-11-06T10:37:00.001-08:00

fly with baller
ink on paper
mother of water
ink on paper