It is a privilege to be included for the second time in the invitation for international collaboration with APAF. In a meeting among different countries, many things can happen, where differences both in the concentration of art and ways of creative thinking are vindication for dramaturgy to be present and at work. Awareness of mapping networks of ideas through to making of artistic decisions represents a kind of tension that fosters confidence in one another, that art can be born from the reflections of multitudinous sources of illumination. As a collaborator, I imagine that emerging ideas will be more progressive, that they will discover many perspectives of themes and be given maximum latitude for reworking in the creation of stage aesthetics. This experience will provide me with a broader working understanding that performances are none other than a process of dialogue involving so many questions and unknowns. This is something I enjoy, like swimming in the ocean and riding the waves. My heartfelt gratitude to APAF and all its member associations.

The Concept for Beautiful Trauma -Behind the Seen-

In this process we sought to find ways to relate the word army to the lives of modern civil society today. The word found is fashion. Military as a Fashion!
One thing from the military that can be considered important and strongly connected with the theme of make-up is the history of camouflage. We know how cubism has set it back, and made a definite connection between art and war in the history of our lives. Andy Warhol’s “Camouflage” painting series(1987)  has inspired us that camouflage has become great in pop culture. Warhol’s great idea of how camouflage can look sophisticated and aesthetic, could be seen everywhere in the cities of 21st century.This show is designed together through collective texts and thematic improvisations from things that are around us. In everyday life, something that is close to us however we may not be aware of. Unseen things -or what we don’t want to see. That is no difference from when you go into battle, to become others, to become death. Today, as Warhol foresaw, camouflage pervades our everyday life. War has crept into our wardrobes, and even into our subconscious.

Yustiansyah Lesmana