Wawancara Lifepatch di Coconut Manilla
Sebuah wawancara singkat dengan anggota Lifepatch yang dilakukan oleh Coconut Manilla. Wawancara ini diwakili oleh Adhari Donora dan Budi Prakosa ketika mewakili Lifepatch di WSKfestival2014, Manilla, Filipina. Berikut dibawah ini isi wawancara tersebut.
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One of the regional artists heralded at this weekend’s WSK: Festival of the Recently Possible is Lifepatch, a nine-man collective from Jogjakarta, Indonesia, that focuses on art and science education through technology. Composed of 27-year-olds (Agus Tri Budiarto, Nur Akbar Arofatulla, Budi Prakosa, Andreas Siagian, Agung Geger, Arifin Wicaksono, Adhari Donora, Ferial Afiff, and Wawies Wisnu Wisdantio, if you want a roll call) the collective champions DIY or the newer term DIWO (do it with others!) in their work. They arrived in Manila earlier this week, and have already started working on their project, to be presented come festival proper. Of course, we had to chat them up.
Why call yourselves Lifepatch?
We’re a community-based organization working in the creative and effective application in the fields of art, science and technology. We prioritize the cultural spirit of DIY and DIWO and invite members and anyone involved to examine, explore, develop, and maximize the function of technology. With this spirit and our activities, we expect to be able to stimulate the emergence of a new pattern and a straightforward system of the creative process of individuals and communities, as well as the interactions between individuals in a series of inter-group cooperation — maybe what we’re doing is so hybrid and random. It looks like a patch of life!
How did you get here? We mean, how’d you meet Tengal?
We met him in Jogja, Indonesia, at a festival we organized. We thought he was from Solo, a city an hour away from Jogja.
How similar or different is Manila from Jogja?
It’s a small city, the city of arts and education. There are many young people and everybody knows each other. We can go to three different events in one day, which we feel is impossible here, expect for neighborhood places.
Before coming to Manila, what did you know about our city?
That it’s big, and maybe it’s the same as Jakarta, so a million people with car, lots of traffic.
And now that you’re here, what are your first impressions?
What, are we still in Jakarta? Ha ha ha. It’s like Jakarta with less heat and less motorbike.
Best Manila discovery yet?
We found out that it’s prohibited to take a sunset photo in front of the US Embassy.
Before leaving, what else would you like to experience?
Too many things. We want to try balut, and driving from the right-hand side.
What would you rather not do here?
Drink water! Ha ha! Beer is super cheap here!
WSK:Festival of the Recently Possible happens from Nov 7-9 at Blackmarket, 1335 Mabini, Chino Roces Warehouse, and Tiu theater. Tickets are PHP500 a day.